Extend-A-Truck 944 Truck Bed Extender

Comment: I don't have a truck but use my mini-van cabin and roof to move a fair amount of materials for your week end warrior. The "low" position is the same height at the top of the seats folded down and the high position matches the roof rack. I can now carry sheet rock or plywood flat and/or 16 ft.+ lumber easily.

Comment: Purchased product because I have a short bed, 6.5 ft, on my pickup and the canoe I purchased was 16 ft long and I did not want to have to put the canoe on top of the truck all the time. This product give me the option when I do not need to carry anything in the bed of the truck and makes it easy on loading the canoe.

Comment: This extender is the perfect solution to safely hauling kayaks in the truck. I was concerned about the pressure on the kayaks before purchasing the extender and I have been very pleased with the ease of attaching the extender and hauling the kayaks.

Comment: The Xtend-o-Truck is a huge hit with me and my buddies. It's a perfect accessory for fun and recreation. We used to recreate with just a tow rope behind the pickup, but this here gadget is a lot easier and a lot more fun!

My buddy Lucas Tubbs used to work down at the RV repair shop. They up and fired him for livin in the RVs that was parked on the lot. When a new RV come in for fixin he'd move his liquor and pot pies into it and stay there till the next RV came in and then move again. I don't think they'd have caught him neither if he didn't keep takin the RVs out on grocery runs. He should have known that if he was drivin them RVs when he shouldn't be, sooner or later he'd wind up high centered on top of a pretzel stand in front of the baseball stadium and he'd have a world of explainin to do. It's just a matter of time and probabliabilities. Anyway, as he was leavin the repair shop for the last time he stoled all them rollin dolley gadgets that they use to slide under the RVs and brought them back to the trailer park for us to play with.

We made up a game then usin these dolley thingies called Bump-the-Bed (it aint as naughty as it sounds). Lucas or me drives the pickup truck through the park and tows someone behind who's ridin on one them dolley thingies (it's like water skiing without the water or the skis). I don't get down to the lake much cause of the whole house arrest thing, so this is the perfect way for me to recreate. Anyway, the game was to drive over the speed bumps in the park at just the right speed, then slam on the brakes. That way whoever's ridin behind hits the speed bump, flies into the air, and (if you're playin the game right) lands in the bed of the pickup. You get extra points for doin fancy tricks while you're in the air. You have an old matress or inflatiated kiddie pool there in the bed of the truck to catch them. Old cans or bottles work pretty good too. Except you don't want them glass bottles ... I have to admit that I shoulda thought that through better before loadin up the truck bed with them empty Budweiser bottles.

The problem with Bump-the-Bed usin a tow rope then was that if you weren't hittin the speed bump just right dead straight, the person bein towed missed the bed of the pickup. There'd be too many times when I'd hit the bump, slam on the brakes, then hear this thud right next to where my driver's door would be if I had one. I don't know how, but one time I actually managed to get my cousin Teeter all the way over my truck bed and into the driver's seat of that convertible FireBird in Clifford McNaugher's yard! We tried a good 5 or 6 more times to do it again, but that was a one in a million shot and Teeter was startin to act a little screwey so we stopped. He was yellin stuff about "Green Sharks" fightin "Blue Sharks" and his left foot kept turnin around facin backwards, so we knew he'd had enough fun for one day.

... but I digest ... I'm sposed to be talkin about the Xtend-o-Truck. Now that we have this Xtend-o-Truck, the person on the back is always lined up straight! So, when we hit the speed bump he (or she if the girls aint too warn down from the mornin sickness) always flies just one direction: straight toward the truck. We learned pretty fast that you need to do a little hop right before the truck stops though. Otherwise you just wrap your bodily middle sections around the crossbar of the Xtend-o-Truck and it takes a day or two to walk upright and propper again. If you time it just right you can use the bar to sprang up in the air and do some amazin flips and poses before hittin the truck! I even got a few new dents in the HOOD of my truck from Lucas sprangin off the crossbar just right!

Now I should probably say here that I don't condom other folks playin Bump-the-Bed (even with the Extend-o-Truck) cause we're semi-perfesionals at this sport and you other folks who aint as practiced in the finer points of self-pervesation may get yourself gimped up if you was to try it. At least don't attempt it without propper safety gear. Wear a cup to protect your vitals.

The only complaint I have about this fine product then is that the Extend-o-Truck is sold one at a time, but it's obvious that the manufactuerers intend you to buy at least 2. It's a little misleading ... like selling only on Bagmitten racket at a time. You can't fully enjoy the game until you buy the second Bagmitten racket, and you can't play their "Capture the Red Flag" game without a second truck and Extend-o-Truck. Why would they include this red flag if it wasn't to tease you into buyin the second Extend-o-Truck? One of them sly marketing ploys. Once we get another Extend-o-truck and Teeter gets his pickup runnin again, we're gonna be off to the Walmart parkin lot to play. We would play here in the trailer park, but the speed bumps would make it just too difficult. You'd be speedin along, catchin up to the other truck, reachin out, just about to grab the other truck's red flag and win the game, when BOOM ... SPEED BUMP and you're wrapped around the cross bar of the Extend-o-Truck so tight that they have to pry you off with a crow bar.

All in all, a great product ... I know we're gonna buy at least 1 more as soon as possible.

Comment: Extend-a-truck was just what I needed to be able to carry my kayaks while towing a 5th wheel trailer. The only thing I needed to do was to get an extension so that the top bar was the same height as the rack on my F350. Product was shipped and arrived before they estimated at time of order. Overall experience was great.