Equipment Racks: Are They Worth Adding To Your Truck Service Body?

A lot of truck service bodies have umpteen cabinets for storing tools and supplies for the kinds of tasks you do every day. These cabinets are invaluable to many professions that use these trucks, including building contractors and electricians. Yet, there is one more accessory you could add; equipment racks. These racks are a bare cage of sorts, with bars that extend up over the bed of the truck and create a framework into which various longer and wider materials or equipment may be stored. You might be wondering if these racks are worth adding to one or more of your company's trucks. Check out the following and judge for yourself. 

Do You Regularly Need to Haul Supplies That Do Not Fit in/on the Truck?

Stop and think about this a second. Do you need to haul long planks of lumber, strips of sheet metal or metal bars, or anything else that just will not fit on the truck but needs to be hauled to a worksite? If the answer is "yes," then the equipment rack is an invaluable addition to your trucks. It means that you will not have to get a different sort of truck to haul these supplies for work. 

Would You Rather Not Buy a Pickup with an Extended Truck Bed?

In most cases, your competitors have faced a similar problem and opted to buy a pickup truck with no work body attachments and an extended truck bed. They chose this option in order to have a truck that could haul all of these supplies that would not fit on a truck with a service body. What they failed to realize is this: the framework for the equipment racks for several trucks does not come close to the cost of the one pickup truck. If you outfitted several of your service trucks with the equipment racks, it would cost you thousands less than buying a heavy-duty pickup truck with an extended truck bed. 

Would It Not Be Nice to Have Additional Places for Tie-Downs?

Even when you can fit equipment and supplies into your service trucks, it seems complicated to secure these items and tie them down. If you have the equipment racks, you have several extra vertical and horizontal bars that double as places to which tie-down ropes, bungee cords, and ratcheting straps can attach and hold on tight. That is sure to keep everything secure.

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