Do I need a bed liner, even though I don’t use my truck as a “work truck? The simple answer is “Yes! You do need a bed liner, you need something in there to protect your investment!” People are paying up to seventy-thousand dollars for their trucks and sometimes choose to not get the bed liner on the truck from the factory or even an aftermarket one. We think this is borderline crazy, why would you not protect your investment, would you walk around in the street barefoot? I think not, so why keep your truck barefoot?
Bed liners go way back to their origins of the truck, as history tells us, the pick-up-trucks were shipped in large wooden boxes and the boxes containing the vehicle became part of the bed of the truck. Some people believe this is where the origin of the name of the pick-up truck came from, but it remains a mystery. For decades, wood beds or wood covered beds were the best way to go, but bugs love to eat at it and most of all the environment will just take its toll on this natural material and replacing them was no cheap or easy task. Many people made their own bed liners through the years, it wasn’t until the 1970’s that a few businesses began to see the importance of creating an easy to install product that could take on the increasingly heavy work.
Plastic bed liners were a first and dominated the market until the late 80’s, when an immigrant from South Africa began applying his own urethane-based chemicals to create the first “spray-on” bed liners everything began to change. Consumers now had the opportunity to have a long-lasting protective material on trucks that could handle heavier and harder jobs. Bed liners today offer UV protection to keep the glossy black finish, are installed and dry in just a few hours, and come in a wide variety of colors. The options for bed liner materials are so vast, that they are applied in military equipment and even in common surfaces like flooring and construction.
No one wants to see their truck with a hole or a large ding on the bed, the paint begins to chip and peel, it just looks bad. Having holes in the bed can cause even more damage and when things we carry get stuck in them its just downright annoying. If a plastic bed liner or even just a rubber mat is the way you want to go, and it certainly is the cheapest way to, you should just get one. It increases the value and looks of your truck, knowing your it has that protection needed is just a nice comforting feeling. No matter how heavy or light a job you do, the bed liner works with you, so many brands are out there offering so many varieties it might take a little bit of time to do some research on the internet. We recommend you do that and get a bed liner, it will protect your investment and last the life of the trucK.
