The only camper I am familiar with on your list is the Lance, which is a MONSTER. If my memory serves me right, the max weight of it, wet weight, is in the 4,500-4,700 lbs range. A F350 Crew Cab 4x4 DRW is gonna have a GVWR of 14k and will weight in about 8,000 lbs full of fuel. This would give you roughly 6,000 lbs of payload, which will be plenty for the Lance 1172 camper. Assuming you will be towing also, so you need to subtract the tongue weight also.
100% NO, I do NOT recommend the F550 for this application.
Okay sounds good, appreciate the support. Just keep in mind that we are pretty much placing orders only right now and F-Series are taking upwards of 12-16 weeks from order to delivery.
Sorry for the vague answer, but I was walking out. There are more negatives on the F550 than positives for your application. The F550 is more for hauling than towing, reason for the 19,500 lbs GVWR over the 14,000 on the F350/F450 pickup. The HP/TRQ rating is lower on the Chassis Cabs and with the 4:88 gears the MPG's will not be the best either. You'd also need to spend some additional money adding some sort of bed to accommodate the camper. Honestly the F350 will work perfectly for you. You will need to add air bags, which is pretty common when adding a slide-in camper.
As I have been telling everyone I talk to, order NOW if you want to see a truck within 3-4 months. It doesn't look like it's gonna get an better anytime soon as most the truck coming in right now are ones that were ordered 3-4 months ago. For the last several months all we have been doing is placing orders for sold units, in which even with our pretty decent allocation we have not been able to fill all the orders and have "extras" for stock.
F450 is better than the 550. The the 550 is detuned
