im kinda wanting a new flatbed...

so does anybody got any good websites that i can look at and get some ideas off of? i want a steel full skirted bed. with built in toolboxes. and if it had a toolbox in the back that i could stick a chainsaw in that would be cool.

oh and lots of lights.

 

B&W are the bed you would want to go with i think. They can build them the way u want them, As many boxes lights as you want. But they are a bit pricey. turnoverball.com. They had one were i used to work and it was really nice. It was one of the best lookin bed i have seen.

 

whoa, nice beds! mucho $$$ tho. Thanks alot for the site!

any others

 

Check Autotrader and Trucktrador to see used trucks for sale. Some listed might give you some ideas.

 

my personal favorite is bradfordbuilt.com

 

good site. i may just cut the back off of my bed and make it all fancy with new lights and sheet metal. and put backup lights in the headache rack and along the sides and everything. so any more sites would be great. thanks alot guys

 

A little off-topic here, but I've got a question I've been wondering about for the past day or so. What is the purpose of having a flat bed? I live in an area where I never see one at work or even on the road, so I reckon it isnt a big thing in this area. Thanks.

 

i can load about 3 times as much on a flatbed than i can on a dually bed. and i use my truck to WORK. like right now im at school and my truck is out in the parking lot and i have 4 pallets of rock on it. no way in heck that you could put that on a dually bed. and i also have racks that go on my truck (check out my gallery for pics) that i can dump a cord of wood in (170 cubic feet) i can put 5 4x5 round bales on the back too. Its just alot easier. Oh and im 16 and my insurance is 400 bucks a YEAR. for full coverage.

 

Cool, thanks for explaining. I reckon its not such a big thing around here. $400 a year for full coverage is incredible, mines $2400 a year for full coverage, then again I've got 5 points on my insurance for a fender bender

Good looking truck

 

i know its kinda late to be posting this, found it in a search, but before i built mine i was gonna buy one, the best i found was CM, nice and powdercoated...good if you use it, which it looks like you do, and also DuTec in Sherman, TX has some **** fine skirted beds as well their regular ones, but they have 4 boxes and small fenders and a pretty nice headache rack, we have their regular beds on 2 of our trucks...they're tough, we pull 30,000lbs regularly with ours...i think their nice beds are around $3200, mine on my '06 cost about $4000 to build, so thats a steal...i'll try to find a pic of one on a dodge, there are several here in town...

 

whoa, old thread. lol thanks for diggin it up. ive decided to rework the bed i got now. full skirts, more lights, and a different back end. She oughtta look pretty sweet when im done!

 

My bed is a CM, I can't tell you if there is a website I think there is. As for uses, there is also the armor capability. I have had a car back into it and show no damage(to my bed).

 

http://www.tgsales.com/

these guys make some really nice beds, alot of trucks around here are running them, they're built about an hour from my house & can tell ya for sure thay they are one tough bed, they make a couple different grades of the aluminum, but the steel beds are tough as nails, & the guy who owns the place will build you pretty much whatever you want, Dusty

 

Here is the CM webpage- http://www.cmtrailers.com/

I have one of their cargo trailers. I love it.

 

Those TGsales beds really look nice. I'm gonna check them out for sure. Wonder how well the scissors style dump beds work, that would sure be handy. Gotta convert to duals first!