Steve,
we actully sell TravelLite Campers and Palomino Popup.
Why?
We need Campers to fit European and Japanese PickupTrucks. These are 95% mid-size Trucks. Most of the Fullsizetrucks like Ford, RAM and Chevy are used in Germany only for show..... driving up and down the road in front of well frequented Ice-Cream-Bars.
There are not much brands offering this at price we can make profit after all import expenses.
FWC and CapriCampers are exclusively sold by another company.
TravelLite provides us the Hardwall-Campers to fit midsize Trucks and 1/2ton trucks. In Germany most mid-size and 1/2 can be raised in GVWR to 3.5 tons / 7716 lbs with Airbags or Roadmaster Systems. Only problem on some Trucks is the weight on the rear axle. Like on the RAM 1500.
Palomino offers us the one Popup SS-500 to fit a mid-size on a reasonable price.
The SS-550 and some of the TravelLite SuperLite Series built for 1/2 ton will fit the German Volkswagen Amarok and the new Mercedes-Benz X-Class too. The X-Class is based on the new generation Nissan Frontier (Navara in Europe) but has more room between wheel wells. (48")
My main concern is that i need campers that fit in a 40´HC-Container for shipping:
These are the TravelLite SuperLite and the TravelLite Air and Rayzr + all Palomino Popup Campers. The all new Palomino Hardside HS-750 that hopefully will be released in the very near future will fit too.
I have two customers waiting for this new camper. It does not have the bulky look of the HS-650 which is only a "blown-up SS-500 in my opinion.
All bigger campers need other shipping solutions: I can´t afford it always buying a vintage Truck (30yrs+ can be imported without custom tax here) to ship such a wide camper RoRo.
If anyone in this Forum can offer a reasonable solution for this i will appreciate his E-Mail.
I am also interested in Rory Willets Bundutec Campers or the Outfitter Caribou Lite and i still have good contact to Alaskancampers but all these brands will end up with high sales prices in Europe (price + shipping + custom tax + vat + needed changes for use in Europe.)
I think i have to contact these manufacturers to have the possibility to fullfill a single custom order if needed.
If you are still looking for a new toy i may have one in the near future:
http://sbsadventurecampers.com/wp/django-specifications-and-introductory-price-list/
These campers are built in Slovenija in the European Union and we consider to import them or to manufacture them in license in the US. Actually they are working on prototypes and i will see the first one around April 14./15. After checking it out we will decide if we will sell them in Germany and may be overseas.
For our actual work please have a look at our website. Scrolling down you can find a button to switch between the preferred languages.
https://pickupcamper-schwaben.de
Regards
Manfred