Masonry Magazine February 2003 Page. 22
Truck ACCESSORIES
mechanism that will hold the tray in several positions from fully inside the truck bed to fully extended past the tailgate.
Another company with a sliding tray system is Jotto Desk, a division of Assembled Products Corp., Rogers, Ark. Their Jotto-Cargo Slide is designed for all standard pickups from Ford, GM and Dodge, especially with a tonneau cover installed. One feature they offer that can be of value is a two-tray system of parallel runners. Each is capable of holding 250 pounds at full extension and they have dividers to customize the trays into numerous small compartments.
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Presled, extended, brings material and tools out of the truck bed and right to your hands.
ProSled, Harbor Springs, Mich., talks about its engineering as much as the features of the Prosled roll-out. Fred Barrett, fleet sales manager, claims, "It is such a simplistic design that it took three years and a top national engineering team to develop, test and limit the number of movable parts when the first virtual prototypes were created."
According to Barrett, "When the deck slides out from the bed of your pickup truck, it transfers its weight-holding abilities onto a pair of parallel, aircraft-grade, aluminum I-beams. When the sled is moved back onto the truck bed, a series of rollers effortlessly takes on the load. It is very strong, extremely rigid, super light and weighs under 200 pounds!"
Even though the tray is light in weight, the Prosled can carry up to 2,000 pounds and, Barrett chimes in, "It comes in a variety of colors"
The other approach to easy access is the swing-out toolbox carrier. Swingbox from Double R Manufacturing, Ocala, Fla., provides the same bed space as standard boxes while featuring roller bearing rotation, more cubic foot capacity than most truck-mounted toolboxes, and easy access to the box contents, either within the truck bed or when the box is swung out over the tailgate. The Swingbox also makes a handy field workstation while in the extended position. It's easily installed and removed, has padlock anti-theft security, allows space for storage of long planks in the truck bed, and even enables the use of a gooseneck hitch for fifth-wheel trailers.
Oh, did we mention-the Swingbox, like everything else these days, comes in diamond pattern aluminum. Maybe diamonds are the contractor's best friend.
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www.durakon.com/cargopro.asp
Jotto Desk
www.jottodesk.com
ProSled
www.prosled.com
SwingBox
www.theswingbox.com