Do you unload your camper at campgrounds?

Rachel Alvizu, General Manager of Rieco-Titan Products, has a question for TCM readers.

When you arrive at a camping location, how often do you unload your truck camper, and why?

[meandtee_travels]

We unload anytime we are camped in a location where we need to use truck to tour the area (especially when low clearance bridges/tunnels exist nearby, eg. Arcadia and Zion NPs) or need better parking options at locations away from campgrounds. Also unload when camping site is off-level more than 3-4 blocks can achieve. On a 3 month trip at different locations every 3 or 4 days, often unloaded half that time. Have no problem unloading even for 1 or 2 day stops if required.

[rogerwoods]

Load it in April, take it off around Thanksgiving. Take the jacks off once loaded (didn't figure that out as a weight saving measure until a couple years in once one rusted stiff.)

[swollgoose]

Almost always if more than 1 night. Been meaning to check what the maintenance schedule is for my jacks. Only think of that when loading or unloading.

[patleach]

Every time it makes it easier to get around and launch my boat

[Ober]

Rarely. My daily driver is a 1/2 ton so the camper stays on the 3/4 ton fulltime, even for oil changes. We almost exclusively boondock and rarely go into cities to do the tourist thing.

[GarryMorgan-mv]

Rarely if two nights or less, usually if three or more. Especially unload if the site has hookups so we can use the truck without detaching everything.

[bandknanacortes]

We usually load the camper in the spring and unload it about Thanksgiving.

[tomcousins]

Unless it’s only for one night we always unload.

[tajartracks]

Depends on where we are and if we have our boats on top of the camper. It's pretty high up there when it's on the truck.

[drbosshard]

We don't take the camper off, at all, while out on a trip. Never have. I do take the camper off whenever we're at home so I can use the pickup for more... pickuppey things. With our hard-side camper though, it's never been an issue to pop away from our campsite to cruise around or get some groceries (beer).

[gmv]

Every time except for a one to 3 day stay!

[johnvaldaliso]

Depends on the type of camping we are doing and what we are going to do.

[KarenCrichton]

We unload any time we're staying somewhere more than one night. It only takes 5 minutes and it's so nice to just have one step up inside. And no one wants to lift a 50lb dog up there every night.

[lkpennock]

Unload after most trips so I can store it on the ground. My HOA doesn't mind the camper on the ground but it is too obvious in my back yard when on the truck.

[scott]

We only unload when, at home, not on the road. One time in the last 25 years we unloaded because we went to a drive through zoo. When we take the plunge and go full time, we will not unload.

[delta]

If it’s just an overnight, it stays on. But if we’re there two nights or more, it’s off.

[benmin-salty]

I'll remove it if static in excess of two overnights.