Hauling Plywood?

[Jeff Olson]

How?

Currently, we are down to one full-size pickup truck, my wife’s GMC Sierra 1500. With its standard 6.5 foot bed and transformer tailgate, it is easy to haul 4 x 8 sheets of plywood between the wheel wells with a vertical stop at the end of the tailgate to hold the plywood in place. How could we haul 4 x 8 sheet of plywood if we swapped her Sierra for a Quartermaster, even tossing aside the spare wheel?

I just traded in my own GMC Sierra 1500 pickup truck on a Grenadier, and I love it. My wife loves it too, but she needs a pickup truck that can carry 4 x 8 sheets of plywood.

Thoughts?

 

[ADVAW8S]

The width of the bed above the wheel wells is 64 inches and length of be with tailgate up is 60 inches. Drop the tailgate and you now have 72 inches. I assume the option would be having the plywood hanging out the gate with a red flag and using the tie downs in be to hold it. Or having the tail gate up with plywood at an angle. The width between the wheel wells is 44.7 inches.

 

[Jeff Olson]

Thank you for the reply.

Probably the most stable option would be to have the tailgate up and slide the sheets of plywood in over the top, nose down, tail up (lashed down, of course).