Originally Posted by
Koyote
I drove pickup trucks for 25 years, and always had a full-size truck with full 8 foot long bed. But if you look around, it seems like most pickup trucks now have shorter beds, and they are often narrower on the smaller trucks. Throw in a couple bikes, and you may not have much room left for cargo.
I routinely carry 4 bikes in my 6.5' short bed truck. Granted 2 of them are youth/tween size bikes.
I think a bigger problem is that truck beds are really high nowadays. It's just not that easy to climb up into the bed and you can get hurt jumping down from the bed!