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Does anyone have any experience with truck tents?

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[Soulfrk]

I've got a 'short bed' and step side, truck. Plus the floor of my bed is ribbed... so it was remarkably uncomfortable to sleep on. Very little room, bumpy surface. I think if it was bigger truck, and I put a mat down it would have been better.

[3/4 time]

That's a good point. I have a bed liner that is ribbed. I guess I'd need a mattress, but the interior bed isn't wide enough for an inflatable mattress and my self-inflating sleeping pads would overlap as well making it really a one-person tent. It looks pretty cool, but you'd probably have to buy their custom mattress to do it right and fit two people, and that's pretty expensive. If I remember right the price for the custom fit inflatable mattress was around $180.

[dudley]

I have an S-10 with a cap and I sleep in it a lot....there's definitely room for just one .
But my previous truck was a F-150 with an oversized (but not quite camper sized) cap.
In there I used a raised platform of plywood for a bed over the wheel wells
Worked pretty well and there was storage underneath
The only problem was that at 14MPG I couldn't afford to drive it anywhere

[3/4 time]

A snake once drove me into the back of a small Toyota pickup with a cap I had several years ago while camping in the Texas hills. Once I stopped shaking and finished the 6-pack of beer I had, I don't recall how I slept.

[RichNH]

LOLOLOL I would say that if the bed liner is ribbed, buy a sheet of plywood and cut to size.