What the camper toters used to do was pull the duals and put an empty wheel on the inside then the full wheel and tire; that way you have your wider track(it looks normal from the side) but still only carrying 1 tire per side. Just rotate every so many thousand miles to keep the wear even(and you have 2 extra's to rotate with). If they picked up a specially heavy camper trailer they could just add the two extra tires/wheels back on to take up the extra load. If I was hauling heavy loads with or without a bigger trailer I would opt for the dually; but if everything is lighter kinda like now for us, I'd stick with a half or 3/4 ton.
I had a 1 ton single wheel and that thing was the roughest riding truck I ever had, unless you had a load on.
One time coming back from out east thru Penn. the 1 ton actually shook one of the running boards right off the truck. I had to stop and walk back and pick it up.
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