Slide-On Convenience

Ron Moon takes a look at the latest offering of the carry me camper range from Jacksons Campers.

- Ron Moon

I’ve owned a Carry Me Camper for the last 14 years, and back when the campers were produced by Candy Campers of Tintinara, South Australia, with the steel canopy built by Jacksons. A few years back when Phil and Sandy Candy wanted to retire, Jacksons bought the Carry Me Camper product and shifted the whole operation to its huge Murray Bridge HQ.

For the last 30 odd years or so, Jacksons has been building silos, storage bins, animal shelters, pig troughs and a host of other sheet metal products, including ute canopies and trays, so it has a huge amount of knowledge and design experience on such products. A camper was a natural progression, especially now it has a well set-up 4WD store in Murray Bridge as well. Jacksons 4x4 Accessories is an ARB retailer, while also supplying a range of other brands such as Redarc, Jmacx and others. But back to the campers.

All Jacksons’ vehicle-based product, such as canopies, trays and slide-on campers are made from aluminium, significantly cutting down on weight. Back that up by the best cad-cam design, computer controlled machinery and fine welding, and you have the impressive basis for a great camper.

The company’s latest design of slide-on is a two-stage, hardtop camper, unlike anything else on the market, giving unparalleled space and ventilation in the sleeping area. Since its inception, not even 18 months ago, the hardtop two-stage camper has become the unit everyone wants and now Jacksons has released a model suitable for extra-cab and dual-cab utes and pick-ups.