Full sheet of plywood is 250cm long. That truck has a 150cm long bed. You’re going to need roof racks or a trailer anyway. I know because I regularly haul full sheets of plywood and plasterboard with a pickup truck that has a 180cm long bed. Leaving the tailgate open doesn’t help much either because while the bed technically is wide enough for a full sheet, in practice it’s not because of the wheel arches on both sides. It wont lay flat and is quite hard to tie down.
Regarding the wheel arches on compact pickups: Most compact pickups that can’t fit a sheet of plywood flat on the floor between the wheel arches have notches in the side of the bed for crossboards. That allows you to easily build a platform for sheet goods. Like this:
That’s what the rectangular notches in the side of the Slate’s bed are for:
I have a similar setup on my truck even though it doesn’t have those notches. I just don’t like having the overhang flopping in the air and not even being supported by the tailgate anymore so I just don’t bother with it. A mid-size pickup simply isn’t good for that. If it’s just a few sheets I’ll put them on the roof but for more than that I just use a trailer instead.
Full sheet of plywood is 250cm long. That truck has a 150cm long bed. You’re going to need roof racks or a trailer anyway. I know because I regularly haul full sheets of plywood and plasterboard with a pickup truck that has a 180cm long bed. Leaving the tailgate open doesn’t help much either because while the bed technically is wide enough for a full sheet, in practice it’s not because of the wheel arches on both sides. It wont lay flat and is quite hard to tie down.
Regarding the wheel arches on compact pickups: Most compact pickups that can’t fit a sheet of plywood flat on the floor between the wheel arches have notches in the side of the bed for crossboards. That allows you to easily build a platform for sheet goods. Like this:
That’s what the rectangular notches in the side of the Slate’s bed are for:
I have a similar setup on my truck even though it doesn’t have those notches. I just don’t like having the overhang flopping in the air and not even being supported by the tailgate anymore so I just don’t bother with it. A mid-size pickup simply isn’t good for that. If it’s just a few sheets I’ll put them on the roof but for more than that I just use a trailer instead.