When you talk about and think about purchasing a truck tent, one personal experience comes to mind involving a Sportz truck tent. It was on an overnight fishing trip to a small lake about 80 miles from my home. I own a travel trailer but I also needed to pull my boat trailer on small gravel roads and small State highways without a shoulder. I decided to use my truck tent because pulling tandem trailers was not at all realistic.
In the wee hours of the morning, a violent storm containing a tornado (tornado did not touch down at my camping site) and very heavy rain/wind came directly over my camp site. I was asleep inside the truck tent when the storm hit. The wind whipped at the tent and pickup violently and the rain was so heavy it almost sank my exposed boat.
That truck tent weathered that storm just fine and I stayed high and dry inside it. I was completely sold on Sportz truck tents from that moment on.
I attribute some of the tent's stability on it's very strong bungee type tie downs positioned at the base of each pole end anchored to the truck by strong hooks. Other bungee type tie downs attach forward and rearward further stabilizing the tent The stretched bungee tie downs tend to keep tension on the tie down points constantly even in heavy wind. Since the tent is not staked out in soft ground but attached to the truck with those stretched bungee tie downs, it is so much more stabile than a ground tent.
Since I was pickup bed height off the ground, even the heavy rain could not flood the floor of the tent nor did the tent leak anywhere.
These Sportz truck tents and Camp Right truck tents, designed & purchased to fit most any pickup truck, are available at http://www.hastprotrucks.com
Monday, September 8, 2008
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