• Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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      2 months ago

      Full sheet of plywood is 250cm long. That truck has a 150cm long bed. You’re going to need roof racks or a trailer anyway. I know because I regularly haul full sheets of plywood and plasterboard with a pickup truck that has a 180cm long bed. Leaving the tailgate open doesn’t help much either because while the bed technically is wide enough for a full sheet, in practice it’s not because of the wheel arches on both sides. It wont lay flat and is quite hard to tie down.

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        2 months ago

        Regarding the wheel arches on compact pickups: Most compact pickups that can’t fit a sheet of plywood flat on the floor between the wheel arches have notches in the side of the bed for crossboards. That allows you to easily build a platform for sheet goods. Like this:

        That’s what the rectangular notches in the side of the Slate’s bed are for: