Truck Bed Rubber Mat

Another vote for why bother to take it out? When I use the truck for hauling cargo, it keeps the cargo from shifting.

I have fliped 1/2 one way, then then other way the two times I have looked under to inspect things. Saw no reason to clean anything underneith. Some minor dust underneith so no action needed.

have a spray in liner and still think the stall mats on top of that work good the older stall mats were made better for drainage and I cut them to fit with a jig saw I think it helps protect the camper by having a little give to it because of the thickness.

Plus 1 for DualLiner. Although it's not perfect, I much prefer it to a spay-in liner or a drop in. I've tried both, and the DualLiner has 'em beat. I had our camper loaded for weeks over the Winter, we've gone about 7,000 miles loaded, and there are no indications on the mat that the camper was there.
It does a good job of keeping stuff out from under the mat, but there's a little that gets past. This is my DualLiner (installed when the truck was 3 days old) after 9 months of every day use, before we bought our TC. I haul mowers, bales of straw, bagged mulch, construction debris, etc. A lot of material that can blow around. I think it looks pretty good for the use it receives.


This is how much material passed the interface of the side panels and mat. Again, not too bad. This is the first time I had lifted the mat and removed the side panels (after 9 months).




Other than a quarter-sized rub spot on a fender well, this is the only down-side to the system I've encountered. The front panel piece curves and scratches the top of the bed's front rail.


The panel installs with the mat riding over a bottom lip of the panel (which sits on the truck's bed). The panel was installed correctly, but there's too much slop in the height of the panel, allowing it to flex and scratch. My solution was some angle aluminum, a roll of self-stick foam, and some stainless steel acorn nuts/hardware. The foam tape was applied to the top and face of the truck's top rail. The holes in the angle aluminum were counter-sunk for the screw heads. Lock washers and blue Threadloc assure everything stays put. You can see the end of the angle Aluminum, sandwiched between the foam tape and the bed liner piece.





I know the scratches are there, but I don't have to look at them. No more curved front panel, either. I have yet to encounter a situation where the acorn nuts interfere with a load. All things considered, I'd definitely get another DualLiner. Their customer service is outstanding, too.
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jmckelvy wrote:


It tends to keep the camper from shifting as much when driving. I also have an orange strip painted down the center of my mat to aid in loading the camper. I wouldn't want to put that strip on my line-x sprayed in liner.

Oh COOL! Great idea (I'm assuming there's some sort of a mark at the midpoint of the camper?). Ed has done a great job of backing under the TC by just "eyeballing it" - but he's a long-ago trucker and has good spatial reasoning that way. Sooner or later I'm going to have to do the camper-loading, and this strikes me as brilliantly easy!

Deb

kohldad wrote:
......Have ruled out the 2'x2' pieces because while they would be easier to remove, the joints would make it harder to slide items into the bed with the mat in place. Hope I can find a 4x8 stall mat, but seems they only carry the 3x6 around here.

One thing that would concern me (perhaps needlessly) with a 4 ft mat is that the inside measurement of my wheelwells is greater than 4 ft. Your camper bottom is probably 4 ft. If the mat or camper is slightly misaligned part of the camper could be on the mat and part not. Might not be a problem but it would bug me.

This isn't a possible issue with my mat as it hugs the inside of the wheelwells and also is shaped to fill the bed areas in front of and behind the wheel wells.

WVbassmistress wrote:
Why don't you guys do what my husband does? Just make the workhorse of a wife help you get it out!

I can't stop laughing at that one,you have got to be my wife's twin.:B, great minds think alike. I'm still laughing, thank you

kohldad wrote:
Have ruled out the 2'x2' pieces because while they would be easier to remove, the joints would make it harder to slide items into the bed with the mat in place. Hope I can find a 4x8 stall mat, but seems they only carry the 3x6 around here.

In my area the stall mats come in 4x6, 4x7 and 4x8 usually in 1/2" and 3/4" thickness. One location had the mat material on a large 4' wide roll (sold by the foot), but it was only 3/8" thick.

jmckelvy wrote:
I also have an orange strip painted down the center of my mat to aid in loading the camper. I wouldn't want to put that strip on my line-x sprayed in liner.

COOL. I have a white stripe painted down the center of my mat.

jmckelvy wrote:
It tends to keep the camper from shifting as much when driving. I also have an orange strip painted down the center of my mat to aid in loading the camper. I wouldn't want to put that strip on my line-x sprayed in liner.

Ditto.

When I was at Torklift a few weeks ago, they talked about a bed mat - I told them I already had one.

The dealer I purchased my camper from recommended one, as does Arctic Fox.

If my truck had a spray in bed liner, I'd still put a rubber mat on top of it.

Hopefully the discussion was beneficial to more than just me.

deltabravo - I usually don't remove the mat except for an good cleaning. And last time I cleaned, I just flipped it to one side, cleaned, then flipped it the other side.

Yeti-plus - going from a Dodge Ram to a Ram and only change I'm aware of in the bed are the stupid plastic caps they but on the bed rails. Going from a 3/8" standard truck mat to a 3/4" rubber mat should be the only change required. But think I'll measure it today just to be sure.

Have ruled out the 2'x2' pieces because while they would be easier to remove, the joints would make it harder to slide items into the bed with the mat in place. Hope I can find a 4x8 stall mat, but seems they only carry the 3x6 around here.