If you love to travel with your family but are not into leaving the comfort of a home behind, you may find yourself considering purchasing some kind of travel home. Also known as RVs these “houses on wheels” offer a great balance between luxury and practicality.
With one of these, you never have to worry about hotel rooms, plane or bus tickets, or many other common travel considerations. You have much more freedom.
However, RVs and motor homes can be extremely expensive, sometimes ranging up into hundreds of thousands of dollars, even for a used one.
If you can’t live without maximum road luxury, then a motor home is something to consider. However, if you’re primary concerns are value and efficiency, and you do not have a large group of people that you want to regularly bring with you on your trips, I would recommend that you look into truck campers.
Truck campers have much less of an acquisition cost than a similar motor home. You can usually find all of the same accommodations for sleeping, dining, and bathing, with the only major difference being the amount of space.
Also, depending on how much you use it, a truck camper will save you a large amount of money on gas, compared to towing a heavier travel trailer or to driving a motor home.
Another great benefit of having a truck camper is that you can always unhitch it and use your truck or SUV like regular. With a motor home, you can’t just crank it up and run down to the grocery store for five minutes, it’s way to inconvenient to even consider doing that. However with a truck camper, you have that option.
Truck campers are available as packages as well as individuals. Let me explain. You can either buy a truck camper and a truck together or just the camper if you already own a truck. I suggest that you purchase the two separately. Buy the camper new and buy a truck used. If you do this, you can keep your total cost well under $30,000 and have a great investment.
Truck campers come in a variety of sizes. So, if you already have a truck make sure that it will be able to support the weight of the camper properly.
Truck campers are a great way to get great luxury on the road without spending your life savings. They provide great mobility, value, and freedom and if you can keep this information in mind, you will be much better prepared to grab a great deal on a truck camper that is just right for you.