Upgraded pick up beds

   / Upgraded pick up beds #11  
Don’t know what’s special about the truck. Flatbeds have been around forever. It should be possible to order a cab and chassis unit. That is done for many 3500’s that are used for work purposes.
I'm with you, it just looks like a flat bed with side boards...

I've built a couple myself out of diamond plate, with side pockets for side boards, one of them even dumps...

SR
 
   / Upgraded pick up beds #12  
It does look to add an extra foot or so usable bed width. Maybe not as important on a full size truck like the RAM, but would come in handy on a small or mid-sized truck.
 
   / Upgraded pick up beds #13  
When i worked in Aus all of our hiluxs and 70 series cruiser utes had these, i really found them to be very useful for doing real work.
 
   / Upgraded pick up beds #14  
Where I grew up a lot of ranchers had flat beds on their pickups. Even the new ones.

The problem with a flat bed or this folding side flat bed is that it's higher than the floor of a regular bed. So you have to lift all your stuff higher. It's ironic that they show it with a heavy dual sport KTM 1190 in the back. It's a bear to get a big bike like that up into a high bed. Note that they don't show the set of ramps that they used to get it in there.
 
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   / Upgraded pick up beds #15  
I have cursed my 2500 a lot of times for the height of the bed.
 
   / Upgraded pick up beds #16  
Where I grew up a lot of ranchers had flat beds on their pickups. Even the new ones.

The problem with a flat bed or this folding side flat bed is that it's higher than the floor of a regular bed. So you have to lift all your stuff higher. It's ironic that they show it with a heavy dual sport KTM 1190 in the back. It's a bear to get a big bike like that up into a high bed. Note that they don't show the set of ramps that they used to get it in there.

Yeah, I smell a loading dock.
 

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