In North America, the term truck camper and its derived acronym TC are generally used to refer to any recreational vehicle or RV that may be carried in the bed of a pickup truck. In North America, this RV type is sometimes known as a slide-in or cab-over.

These are recreational vehicles that sit at the bed of your pickup truck. Truck campers are also called slide-in campers, pickup campers, or truck bed campers because you have to slide them into your pickup truck and attach them to the bed of your truck so that they become one with the vehicle, making your truck the towing vehicle for your RV.

A truck camper is a demountable recreational vehicle (RV) that is loaded and unloaded from the bed of a full-size or mid-size pickup truck. The common feature is the ability to demount the camper from the truck.