No matter if your truck is a regular daily driver or a functional working horse, it is convenient to have all tools handy. Usually we just leave them in a truck bed, making it vulnerable to the extremes of weather or even a theft.

Best thing to prevent this and provide a space for storing and organizing your stuff is a tool box. We have 2 great options, offered by Dee Zee and UnderCover for your F-150!

UnderCover® - Swing Case

Features:

- The secure, versatile, twist lock allows you to open your Swing Case with or without a key
- The Swing Case mounts up out of the way, allowing full use of the truck bed.
- The UnderCover Swing Case installs easily in just minutes with 6 self tapping screws.
- Manufactured in the United States and carry a 1-year warranty against defects in material and workmanship.



Dee Zee® - Specialty Series Wheel Well Tool Box




Features:

- Available in sizes that offer storage on top of and behind wheel well humps, or in double-wide size for storage on both sides of the wheel hump
- Designed not to intrude any further into the center of your pickup bed than the wheel well humps already do
- Available in multiple finishes and colors
- Limited lifetime warranty on aluminum and polyurethane, 3-year warranty on steel, 1-year warranty on any powder coat finish.



Both tool boxes are available for the Ford F-150 1980-2015.

Which one, you think, would match your bed the best?

 

Any idea of the volume of the plastic one?

 

The problem with this location is that it covers the tie down hook and box link and led lights and switch on the left side.
2015?
Does the plastic undercover come in a size that allows a 48" center clearance between them for plywood?
the undercover ones would allow me to remove them for access while hauling.

fyi...look at DU-HA.COM for nice under back seat storage. I just got one for my SC. I like it.

 

Black plastic cross bed toolboxes used to be all the rage.

Whatever happened to them, I hardly see them any more?

 

The volume of the UnderCover Swing Case is 1.5 Cubic ft., Length : 44-3/4 in.
Width : 8-3/16 in., Height : 15-1/4 in.

 

You are really showing your age.
Is this what "senior member" is all about.

If I recall ...the only thing good about the old plastic tool boxes is that they were cheap.

 

HI! I have the Swing and undercover and I really love them. Very useful that was my first mode I made to my truck.