Securing truck toolbox

[Rich Iowa]

Looking to see how you guys/gals secure your toolboxes to your trucks. I'm thinking of buying one of those toolboxes/ chests that sit below the side rails on the bed. Anyone come up with a good way to secure them other than simply bolting the chest to the bed floor, something that would make it easy to remove the chest if I need to use the whole bed.

 

[Anonymous-0]

I use turnbuckles from the hook in the front corner of the box to the grab handles on the end of the toolbox.

 

[Ronnie Graves]

3M trim tape 2 inches wide will hold it (and you might not get it to move later on but you can get it to turn loose with some pulling and prying)

 

[C.R.]

I had a pick up truck sized load bar that i used to hold my box o stuff in place worked allright so far

 

[keh]

For underbed box I welded an angle iron frame and bolted it to the truck frame, bolted box to
frame. No attachment to bed, which might shift.

KEH

 

[jon f mn]

That works ok if the box is not to big. I've done a few that way. I did have a customer with a sewage pumper that had boxes all along both sides. It had 2 boxes per side each 4' long. He didn't get them from me but I worked on them a lot. They were so long that the twisting of the truck frame kept breaking the boxes apart, first the latches and then the hinges, so I put on heavier latches and hinges. After that the doors and boxes started breaking. I kept trying to get him to let me remount them to the tank but he never wanted to spend the $. Those were some custom made boxes that were done where they mounted the tank and pump. They were much larger than standard boxes both up and down and depth wise.

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 21:40:10 05/13/13) Looking to see how you guys/gals secure your toolboxes to your trucks. I'm thinking of buying one of those toolboxes/ chests that sit below the side rails on the bed. Anyone come up with a good way to secure them other than simply bolting the chest to the bed floor, something that would make it easy to remove the chest if I need to use the whole bed.

Easy to remove" will be easy for a thief to remove, too. Also, most latch/locking mechanisms are toys for a thief. Need some heavy duty stuff!

 

[Wile E]

I knew a guy that had an extended cab PU and pulled the back seat out so that he could put his toolbox behind the driver seat, saves truck bed space.

 

[Bob]

First off, do you REALLY need to have all those tools exposed in an insecure location at all hours ?

If it is a work truck, you need it during working hours when it is NOT unattended, then park it in a secure location for the night!