If there was ever an RV that should be called "Chuck," it was the original . The North Carolina startup must have realized its oversight because its second trailer wears the name. It's not quite as natural a chuckwagon as the original, but it is a tiny, lightweight support rig that owners can quickly customize into their ultimate adventure partner.
The Chuck can carry nearly twice its own dry weight, and Ushi offers a long list of ready-to-add options to fill that payload atop the open bed and MOLLE rack. The Ushi Chuck isn't quite as instantly endearing as the original Ushi trailer – now fittingly named the Ushi OG – but that's mostly because it has a more imposing presence to it, a function of its lower, stouter center of gravity, slightly wider 70-in (178-cm) track that extends well past the body width, and burlier mud-terrain tires. It's clearly made to venture off the pavement and not sugarcoat life off the beaten path with gratuitous kindnesses or unnecessary luxuries.
It's, rather literally, a tent and rucksack on wheels. At a mere 711 lb (323 kg) to start and 8.3 feet (2.
5 m) from its bumper to the tippity-tip of its tongue, the Chuck ranks among the smallest off-road trailers designed to hitch to street-legal four-wheel vehicles, not s, or s, or . It's a tad larger than the 7.4-foot (2.
3 m) 500-lb (227-kg) , a car/motorcycle hybrid trailer, but is designed with a similar exoskeleton-based accessorize-it-yourself ethic. In fact, the Chuck represents the latest deb.