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    You should put 2 pieces of wood going across the back of the truck to hold both of sides together, Then its more framed. That way the sides wont bend outward if weight pushes on them cause the load can shift on tuns sometimes. Also then you can use the cross board as a headache rack. I bet if you did that it would stay up for a while

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    Quote Originally Posted by greytruck View Post
    You should put 2 pieces of wood going across the back of the truck to hold both of sides together, Then its more framed. That way the sides wont bend outward if weight pushes on them cause the load can shift on tuns sometimes. Also then you can use the cross board as a headache rack. I bet if you did that it would stay up for a while

    Yea I may do that, they worked out fine today since there was enough stuff in the bottom of the truck against the boards to keep anything pushing up to from toppling it (unless it snapped the wood, which is possible I guess). Made 2 runs, but without the side stake additions would have 3-4 runs, so, overall worth the 20mins and few scrap peices of wood.

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