Comparing The Best Bed Covers For Trucks

Tonneau covers for pickups of most every design can keep most of the weather off your truck bed. In addition most bed covers for trucks do just fine at keeping cargo hidden away. But several tonneau types have serious limitations. That's why the covers below offer less compromise and a better answer for many truck owners.

Hard Tonneaus That Fold

A tri fold hard fiberglass or plastic cover beats a tilting lid for practical use. Even though the tilting cover certainly can't be beat for slick good looks. But the folding model makes it easy to access all the bed in just second and yet still makes it simple to haul any kind of cargo. The tilting covers, on the other hand, won't close on anything higher than the sides of the bed.

That means with a folding cover you still get vault-like locking storage but the covers move quickly aside to hold any high thing. Think about all the routine possible cargo items that won't fit under closed tilting truck bed covers. Items that quickly come to mind include lawn mowers, tillers, gas grills, bicycles on racks, even garbage cans. So think about it before you choose a tilting fiberglass cover over a folding one.

Retractable And Metal Too

If money isn't much of an object, a retractable cover like the Jack Rabbit makes for a great solution for protecting your truck bed and cargo. What you get is a sliding metal sheet that easily moves to and fro to cover the bed or completely open it.

Most normally the covers slides forward into a cannister completely out of the way and in storage. Then when the cover slides into place, it can be locked and you get a completely closed up box.

Though sliding the cover is as easy as can be, an electric remote control action is also a possibility. That way you can push a button as you approach the vehicle and the back opens forward just as you would open a remote access trunk. Maybe that's not necessary, but it's a desirable option and easy to get.

Those are my choices for the most useful and valuable choices for tonneau covers. There are certainly cheaper bed covers for trucks but these types are more of a no-compromise pair of options.