I'm in the planning / budgeting phases of the next rig, and, well, trying to combine this with our RV plans. A lot of the toy haulers I like have a ~6,000 cargo capacity, so I feel like for safety that really means 4500-5,000 absolute tops rig to haul. I'm trying to figure out what I could build that has 2 front seats and 3 rear or a bench that'd be versatile / fun enough to drive on the street as needed, but not suck off road.
I have no idea where I'm going with this yet, I just know it's going to be expensive. LOL. We considered driver-RV's but the versatility of that plus a 1 ton truck really isn't as much, and it seems to be closer to 140K (holy hell) which is well over a toy hauler plus used 1 ton with about 40-50K on it.
This is a few years off, but I'm not opposed to finding a rolling chassis of something now to build slowly. We have our third kid arriving in May and figure we'll really want to be out as weekend-warriors when they're a few years old. I've got time.