3 Truck Accessories You’ll Wonder How You Ever Lived Without
This article is brought to you by Ford Accessories.
The beauty of camping with a truck is that you can bring almost anything, and stash it almost anywhere. Board games and barbecue grills, kayaks and shotguns, bicycles and fishing poles, coolers and camp stoves.
Truck beds are spacious, rugged, and made for hauling. They’re the ultimate camping companion.
The flipside of that freedom is… Well, truck beds are completely open. They’re open to wind and rain, dust and dirt, open to critters, open to potential thieves, and also open to getting disorganized. The best camping accessories for trucks help solve these problems. Here are a few top picks from Ford Accessories.
Bed Covers
A truck bed cover (also known as a “tonneau cover”) is a cheap, efficient way to turn your truck’s open bed into a closed, secure trunk. Bed covers stop the elements, animals, and light fingers from getting at your camping gear, and prevent anything from flying out of the bed while you’re driving.
Ford offers a wide array of covers for truck beds of all sizes and adventurers of all budgets, including soft roll-up covers, rigid folding covers, and locking, retractable covers. The best truck bed covers don’t just protect your gear, either. They can protect you, too! A bed cover—with the tailgate down—makes the perfect sleeping platform for a last-minute overnight stop.
Ford Accessories builds bed covers especially for Ford trucks, so you can be sure of seamless integration with your rig. Some of our favorites include the Advantage Hard Folding Cover, available for the Ford Maverick, and the REV Hard Folding Cover for the Ford F-150. Serious truck campers will appreciate retractable covers like the F-150’s Retrax Embark, which uses a sealed ball-bearing roller system for smooth operation, and is lockable at any point along its length.
Cargo Solutions
Although truck beds are spacious, great for hauling large quantities of camping gear and supplies, they’re also prone to getting disorganized. Without reliable cargo solutions, all your gear is just rolling around willy-nilly. So if you’re driving to your campsite on a bumpy 4WD road, once you get there, you may find yourself sorting through a jumbled mess of gear.
Ford offers a spread of affordable, integrated cargo accessories to solve this problem and help you keep your truck bed organized, such as folding cargo containers, cargo nets, bed dividers, and even folding tables built into your tailgate.
Floor Liners
In addition to keeping the gear in your truck bed safe and organized, another major concern when camping is keeping the interior of your truck clean. From muddy boots and dog paws to spilled coffee, the threats are legion! Of course, a little mess is part of the adventure, but just because you’re willing to get yourself dirty while enjoying the great outdoors doesn’t mean you have to trash your truck, too.
Rubber floor liners like this F-l50 SuperCrew 3pc Set act as durable and easy-to-clean barriers between your truck’s interior and the inevitable grime of camping. With their raised edges, they also keep spills contained, and the rugged construction resists wear and tear from the heavy boots and bulky gear that comes part and parcel with outdoor adventure.
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