Question for people in the UK

[Swansen]

I was just thinking about something the other day, and well, i'm making a bed for my pickup. When i was ordering all the steel people kept thinking i was making a bed for like sleeping in, and i though i had read somewhere that a pickup bed was called something else. I thought i remember it being said by a British guy, so i was just curious if you call a bed on a pickup something different, like do you have a different name for it.

 

[Addis]

What is a pickup bed?

 

[Swansen]

here are pictures to show what i'm talking about.

67bed-rob01.jpg

ford-pickup-bed.gif

The_bed_is_what_the_samurai_is_in

 

[Addis]

The top one we call trailers, we have one and sometimes take it when we go away.

The type that's attached to a 4x4 I can't remember the name for.

 

[donkey42]

trailers

yeah

The type that's attached to a 4x4 I can't remember the name for.

presumably you mean the third pic, dunno :unsure:

i'd just call them the back of a pickup truck

 

[Swansen]

lol, yeah, i was giving reference in the first two pictures to the back half of a pickup, aka, the bed. But yeah, it was on TV, top gear i think where i remember it being called something else.

 

[thomas234]

No can't say I've ever heard it called the bed. I think I'd call it the back.

 

[zeus]

I dont think there is a name for the back of a pickup... other than "the back of the pickup"!
Though we do call it a bed when referring to flatbed wagons... from the 7.5 tonne jobbies upwards.
http://www.haptonvalley.co.uk/uploads/324_DSC00536.JPG

Curtained wagons tend to be called lorries.
http://www.hmgpaint.com/content/pre...ucks-trailers/b-and-q-truck-curtain-pvc94.jpg

You say your making a bed.... we'd say you are boarding out the pickup.

 

[Swansen]

lol, thats kinda funny, and werid, but yeah, round here its known as the bed, and a flatbed is a flatbed, but hey thanks anyways guys.