Truck toolbox organizers

[Kscardsfan]

I have a new truck for work and they included a low profile toolbox for me. Does anyone have any tips or inserts to maximize storage and organizing my tools and supplies in it? I’d like to have better than random piles of **** dropped in there.

 

[PoorUB]

It might help to know what type of tools or parts you haul. Four foot pipe wrenches or an assortment of bobbie pins?

 

[bobg03]

It's been a long time 1989 to be exact since I have had a bed box, but the last time I had one i just used assorted sized wood to compartmentalize it. Often used tools on drivers side, rarely used things on passengers side, big stuff like a hi lift jack and a shovel in the center.

 

[kbeefy]

My last box had ridges built into the front and rear that I was able to set plastic bins on which would slide side to side.
Kept small items in it and larger stuff below. I also cut a board the same size and screwed a compressor to it that worked the same way.
Below that I tried to keep most things in milk crates or tool bags so it wasn't too much of a mess.

 

[FMB4]

Used a truck box for a number of years as an apartment maint person. Never had problem with organization or keeping tools 'in place'. Box had a sliding top tray.

 

[Renegade1LI]

Pick up or van? If it's a van I could help, if a PU you could still use some of these dewalt boxes with a custom racking system,great modular tool storage.

 

[Jlarson]

I use those U line divider boxes for stuff like brakeclean, marking paint, grease and then usually some small tool bags, one for stuff like ratchet straps/slings, chains. Thant way we aren't digging you can just grab the bag you need.

 

[f121]

My advice is think really carefully about what tools you actually need with you.

I used to haul all my tools everywhere, in a couple of boxes I could barely lift. Then one day I was wondering if I'd ever really use a set of imperial (standard) sockets on a volkswagen at the track, or if I really needed my stud extractors, and built a little road box. Add a breaker bar and a 3/8" socket set and it has everything I need to pull a motor in the junk yard.

 

[Kscardsfan]

Well I’m the ranger for a state park. So in a given day I might have to get a leaking toilet fixed, a traffic accident investigated and marked, perform a water rescue, or take the skid steer out and clean up downed trees lol. So it’s kind of a wide variety of **** I keep in my vehicle just by virtue of wearing so many different hats.

 

[Lassen Forge]

It's all good until you realize you need those Whitworth sockets to do a paying job for a customer, who has a dozen fellow British iron fools, er, affecionados, and figured "Oh, I'll NEVER use those stupid British tools" so you sold them at auction a year before... and those big money people who play the Jag and Jensen symphony of broken **** say "Don't bother, they don't know what they're doing, they don't even have PROPER wrenches"...

Sure, I used to have a set that I could do everything on a bug short of a full transaxle rebuild (and I could even fake that depending on year) in my carry-around 50 caliber cans... but I realize when my paycheck is on the line I need at least a minimal set of "bring it on" tools... Including, yes, even Whitworth, and oddball Metric taps and dies, and ... because you never know if today is going to be tuning up the bosses AMC Concord, replacing the ceramic cylinders on a Bean ag pump, replacing the whirleygig points on your effing Lucas magneto to get your bike running to get you to your folks for Christmas, helping your bud with his 1972 Suzuki (if you know, you KNOW) because he stripped 3 of those oddball threaded effing case screws... or telling the guy on the phone "Sure, I can get those SU carbs sync'd and smooth... bring money!"...

My go to tools fit in a pair of tall 26" tool chests... and I don't leave home without them!

 

[speed bump]

I have a bunch of stuff in milk crates in my tool box.

One thing I would recommend is a piece of plywood across the bottom and then a piece of cheap indoor/outdoor carpet over that. My weather guard tool box is a tank but the bottom has flexed down enough from what I have in there that I have trouble putting stuff under it some days.

 

[Odd-job]

Well I’m the ranger for a state park. So in a given day I might have to get a leaking toilet fixed, a traffic accident investigated and marked, perform a water rescue, or take the skid steer out and clean up downed trees lol. So it’s kind of a wide variety of **** I keep in my vehicle just by virtue of wearing so many different hats.

That’s a pretty diverse tool need. Guess it depends on also how far you might need to be working from your truck and over what terrain as well. Maybe a variety of bucket boss equipped buckets and tool bags for compartmentalizing stuff so it’s grab and go out of the truck box. Probably need to put one together for the chainsaw as my stuff is all scattered.

 

[metaldad]

one company truck i had, was a 4x4 3/4t silverado, with a box that made it the size of 'the war wagon'
no matter what i put it in, or how i lashed it down, everything wound up on the floor

 

[Kscardsfan]

one company truck i had, was a 4x4 3/4t silverado, with a box that made it the size of 'the war wagon'
no matter what i put it in, or how i lashed it down, everything wound up on the floor

I think you might be describing one of our maintenance guys trucks. Except he just doesn’t even attempt to organize or secure his ****. I’m not especially OCD/a neat freak, but his truck makes my eye twitch.

 

[Kscardsfan]

I have a bunch of stuff in milk crates in my tool box.

One thing I would recommend is a piece of plywood across the bottom and then a piece of cheap indoor/outdoor carpet over that. My weather guard tool box is a tank but the bottom has flexed down enough from what I have in there that I have trouble putting stuff under it some days.

Didn’t think about that, but that’s a really good idea.

 

[rick carpenter]

Well I’m the ranger for a state park. So in a given day I might have to get a leaking toilet fixed, a traffic accident investigated and marked, perform a water rescue, or take the skid steer out and clean up downed trees lol. So it’s kind of a wide variety of **** I keep in my vehicle just by virtue of wearing so many different hats.

Cool job, I'm jealous. You might take some short lengths of 3 to 5" dia pvc and glue a cap on one end and lightly sand the other end so that a cap friction fits but doesn't stick. Label and stuff a bunch of those upright in a milk crate with task-specific tools in each. I store my auger bits similarly in smaller dia pvc.

 

[Kscardsfan]

Cool job, I'm jealous. You might take some short lengths of 3 to 5" dia pvc and glue a cap on one end and lightly sand the other end so that a cap friction fits but doesn't stick. Label and stuff a bunch of those upright in a milk crate with task-specific tools in each. I store my auger bits similarly in smaller dia pvc.

Only took me 10 years of banging my head against the wall working other jobs after college and 3 years of applying to get it lol. But thank you very much, I’m blessed to have my job. And that’s a genius idea.

 

[Kscardsfan]

Has anyone ever utilized the lid of a truck box for storage? Maybe with magnets or something?

 

[RivennHewn]

Has anyone ever utilized the lid of a truck box for storage? Maybe with magnets or something?

Cat has (the start of) a molle system for the lid of their boxes. Kind skimpy now, but maybe more to come???

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