Leitner Designs Active Cargo System

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We have all been there, sitting at home, thinking of ways to improve our off road travel experience, and method of camping. I've been through many iterations of camp gear in my years of outdoor enjoyment. First was a truck bed tent by Napier sportz that lasted me a good 6 years until Gail force winds at overland expo 2015 destroyed it. Then I thought "hey, I have a slide in camper sitting at home, let's see how that does." After 1 trip out to a remote campsite, I realized that while it was comfortable, it just was too difficult to maneuver the combo through the trails.



Then I went to a standard ground tent. This worked fine, but my next problem was, with two car seats and a family of 4, I needed somewhere to store all of my gear that stayed in the truck full time. It used to be stored under my back seat, but as you can imagine, getting to the gear with the Car seats and kids proved to be difficult.

Enter Leitner Designs. I had camped a number of times with the owner of Leitner Designs, and had always admired his product. After some thinking, I decided it was time to make a permanent decision on our future of camping. I got in contact with Leitner Designs and met with him at his shop to acquire my new rack.




The rack is a modular design constructed of extruded aluminum. Total weight of the empty rack is just 65 pounds.

A couple of weeks of saving more pennies, I picked up some gear pods, rotopax and universal mounting plates from Leitner Designs to complete the rack.







Shortly after that, I made another large purchase, a CVT Mount Denali 4+ person roof top tent, and mounted it to the top of the rack.





All in all, after one weekend out with the new setup, I could not be happier. If you're looking for a way to store gear and mount a roof top tent, look no further than the Leitner Designs Active Cargo System. Best part of all, it's made right here in the USA!

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Leitner Designs has been around As a design firm since 2007, and came out with the rack system in 2014. I have camped with the owner of Leitner Designs many times and he's one of the coolest guys you'll ever meet. I could not recommend him or his product more
Great business!
 
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Leitner Designs has been around As a design firm since 2007, and came out with the rack system in 2014. I have camped with the owner of Leitner Designs many times and he's one of the coolest guys you'll ever meet. I could not recommend him or his product more
Great business!
Having designed racks for TracRac and Thule for almost 10 years, I have to say that this Leitner system impresses the heck out of me. If I owned a truck still, I would buy one in a heartbeat.
 
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Having designed racks for TracRac and Thule for almost 10 years, I have to say that this Leitner system impresses the heck out of me. If I owned a truck still, I would buy one in a heartbeat.
It's a great system.. I'm impressed with it, and the fact that the empty rack for my 8 foot bed is totally modular and only weighs 65 lbs is quite impressive. I could not be happier with my decision to go with Leitner. It's about $2000 or so with all the accessories on it... Not including the roof top tent that ran me another 1900.. But it's the best 4000 bucks one could spend to camp in comfort 1 or 2 times a month lol... Wow.. I just realized how much money I have tied up in my truck and I'm gonna go cry now..
 

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It's a great system.. I'm impressed with it, and the fact that the empty rack for my 8 foot bed is totally modular and only weighs 65 lbs is quite impressive. I could not be happier with my decision to go with Leitner. It's about $2000 or so with all the accessories on it... Not including the roof top tent that ran me another 1900.. But it's the best 4000 bucks one could spend to camp in comfort 1 or 2 times a month lol... Wow.. I just realized how much money I have tied up in my truck and I'm gonna go cry now..
Don't cry! Go out there and hug that rig. Lay in the bed. Smile a while. We love our rigs!!!!!!!
 

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Scott: I see the storage pods on the rack are locking, do they use a standard RV cam lock? How thick is the plastic? IE do you feel secure leaving gear in there 24/7?
 

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Scott: I see the storage pods on the rack are locking, do they use a standard RV cam lock? How thick is the plastic? IE do you feel secure leaving gear in there 24/7?
The plastic is probably a good inch thick at the lock. Its a heavier duty cam lock. In all honesty I would think thieves would have a hard time getting into the boxes, but nothing is going to stop a determined criminal. I do however take my first aid kit and axe off the truck if it's sitting in say, a mall parking lot. I'd rather not tempt criminals if I can avoid it.

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Awesome setup and those racks are definitely nice and super modular! Cant decide if I like the rack or the decal more tho :sunglasses: #threepercenter