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Best Work Truck Setup for Skilled Tradesmen

Worker accessing tools in open DECKED drawers, with a Payloader case on the truck bed deck.

Find Your Bed Size. Discover Your Build.

Trying to fit the best work-truck setup for every skilled trade into one writeup is like trying to fit a sheet of plywood into a glove box:

Electricians, carpenters, welders, plumbers, HVAC, arborists, linemen, framers, masons, landscapers, concrete finishers, pipefitters, solar installers, roofers, ironworkers, glaziers, irrigation techs, fleet mechanics, well drillers, septic installers, alarm and security techs, locksmiths, heavy-equipment operators, surveyors, appliance repair, sheet metal workers, drywallers, boilermakers, pool techs, pest control, tile setters, diesel mechanics, garage door installers, millwrights, insulators, steamfitters, fiber and telecom techs, fence builders, elevator techs.

(So many we had to shrink the font. And we'll still get emails about the ones we missed.)

With that vast variety in mind, we’re going to show, not tell. More picture book, less encyclopedia. You know your work and the gear it requires, and you've probably already got a truck or your eye on one, so we've sorted it all by bed type: full-size, midsize, eight-foot, and service body. Scroll down, find yours, and get fired up.

Close-up of a worker selecting power tools from organizers inside a DECKED truck bed drawer. Worker accessing a DECKED drawer beneath a truck canopy filled with tools and equipment.
Workers accessing DECKED drawers beneath a ladder rack on a work truck at a construction site.

Full Size.

The Default Done Right.

The full-size truck is the standard for a reason: hefty payload, serious engine, best-looking thing at the gas pump. But your bed could be doing more. The weatherproof Drawer System organizes tools and gear, CargoGlide brings heavy cargo to the tailgate, and the Tool Box locks down cab-side real estate. Your truck pulls its weight, and your aching back gets the day off forever.

Two workers beside a truck with an open DECKED Tool Box at a residential construction site.
Worker accessing an open DECKED drawer beneath a truck bed loaded with concrete pipe sections. Worker accessing an open DECKED drawer beneath a truck bed loaded with concrete pipe sections.
Worker organizing tools in open DECKED Payloader cases secured in a truck bed POD system.
Extended DECKED CargoGlide loaded with a Payloader case, air compressor, saw and other work equipment.

Midsize.

Less Bed. Same Standards. (Don’t Forget Less Gas.)

A midsize bed doesn’t forgive wasted space. Dial it in. The Drawer System puts the weatherproof MegaDrawer under your payload, lockable Stash Bins make use of the space around the wheel wells, and CargoGlide slides everything else out to you. Run both if you want. Whichever you choose, you’re packing full-size utility into an agile footprint.

Tradesperson accessing tools and an orange DECKED Payloader case in an open truck bed drawer. Two gray DECKED Payloader cases stored beside tools and a canvas bag in an extended truck bed drawer. Work truck carrying building materials above an extended DECKED CargoGlide at a construction site. Worker loading bags of construction material onto a DECKED CargoGlide in a white pickup truck.

Eight-Foot Bed.

The Full Arsenal.

Congratulations: you have the potential to create the greatest truck-bed setup in human history. Eight feet is a lot of bed to lose things in, but it’s also room for the full DECKED arsenal. Drawer System underneath, CargoGlide to bring the far end within reach, Tool Box by the cab. That’s not a place your 10mm socket goes to hide — that's a rolling shop.

White work truck with an open DECKED Tool Box and extended CargoGlide at a house framing site. Rear view of a work truck with an open DECKED Tool Box and CargoGlide above a Drawer System. Worker beside a pickup with an open DECKED Tool Box and CargoGlide mounted above DECKED drawers.

Service Body

Solving the Problem Right Down the Middle.

Think your service body is already sorted? It feels that way, right up until you’re crawling through the 48”-wide corridor of chaos you call your bed. You’ve got the option to run the Drawer System or CargoGlide to make that chariot of cabinets really pull its weight.

Utility truck with both DECKED drawers extended, holding tools and supplies at a construction site.

You could spend your time looking for tools and reorganizing your gear. But you've got work that pays better than that. So find your truck above, pick the setup that matches your workdays, grab a Saturday afternoon, put the game on, lure a buddy to help with a full cooler, install it, load it up, and get after it.

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