Archive for March, 2011

Aluminum Tonneau Covers

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Aluminum Tonneau Covers are the Best Security that you Can Buy For your Truck

Most people like to be able to carry things with them when they are driving a truck, especially if they use their truck for work. The problem comes in that it leaves your things susceptible to theft and if you carry expensive work tools this can get expensive real fast. One of the best solutions is to secure your things under aluminum tonneau covers, they offer the best security possible allowing you to put whatever you want in the back of your truck and not worry about it.

The aluminum tonneau covers from Bak Liner allow you to lock down the bed of your truck as well as your tailgate, meaning that anyone that wants access will need to work much harder to get it. While not completely theft proof, most people preying on the backs of pickup trucks are looking for easy pickings and with your aluminum tonneau cover your truck will most certainly be passed up.

Please visit us at Bak Liner to see our line of aluminum tonneau covers and to see why they are some of the best covers available.

Retractable Tonneau Covers

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Retractable Tonneau Covers Make Shopping Easier

You bought your pickup truck because you wanted a vehicle that would make it much easier to go shopping. There is nothing quite like the space that a pickup bed can give you for the groceries or Christmas shopping. The only question is in what type of tonneau cover you should buy. With the latest retractable tonneau covers, you can open them single handedly.

The ability to get tonneau covers open has always been a major factor in most people’s decision as to what style to buy. With the RollBak retractable tonneau covers, we gave this problem a lot of consideration and decided that our mounting system and tracks needed to designed to make the covers easy to open no matter what the weather was like. In fact at Bak Liner we wanted you to be able to roll it back with one hand in case you had shopping bags in the other hand so that you could load up and be gone quickly when it was raining.

Folding Tonneau Covers

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

Keeping Your Tool Safe and Dry under BakFlip Folding Tonneau Covers

If you are looking for a way to keep your tools safe and dry in the back of your pickup truck, the last thing you want to buy is one of those soft vinyl tonneau covers. To start with they are a pain to open and close with dozens of snaps and then they dry out and crack in the sun, letting in the rain. With our BakFlip folding tonneau covers, your tools will always be dry and safe.

At Bak Liner we make our folding tonneau covers from FRP a very strong material that will keep out the weather, will not break or fade in the cold or direct sunlight and can carry up to 500 pounds of load on top when closed. With easy to use locking releases, you will never have to struggle to get into the back of your truck for your tools again.

Hard Tonneau Covers

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Solid Protection with Hard Tonneau Covers

When you have to count on a tonneau cover to keep your tools dry and safe, you could be tempted to buy a soft tonneau cover to save money. This could be a costly choice, while this type of cover can keep your tools dry; if you are counting on it for security you might as well leave your tools out in the open. The best security comes from locking hard tonneau covers such as our BakFlip or RollBak covers.

Not only are these hard tonneau covers from Bak Liner designed to keep out the weather year after year to protect your tools, but unlike vinyl, they cannot be cut with a box knife. Once you have closed one of our covers and locked it and your tailgate, your tools will just as safe as they would be in the cab of your truck with less hassle.

Tonneau Covers

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Our TiltBak Tonneau Covers Offer Easy Access

Many truck owners complaint that their tonneau covers make getting at the inside of the bed a challenge on a good day and even worse when the weather is inclement. To overcome this, the latest style of tonneau cover form Bakliner is a one piece cover that is mounted on hinges to the front of the bed and is secured at the back of the bed by a locking mechanism to protect the items you have stored inside from theft.

After you release the locking mechanism, the entire one piece heavy duty plastic cover is raised up and out of your way by a pair of hydraulic lifts similar to those that you would expect to see on the rear door of a minivan. Typically these tonneau covers are designed to be able to carry a load on top of them and have a raised pattern to help keep things from sliding around on them.

Tonneau Cover

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Carrying a Load on Top of Your Tonneau Cover

While a hinged one piece tonneau cover presents a very clean and attractive image, they tend to get in the way when you have to carry a load. For the most part you end up having to remove the cover, which if you are not somewhere where you can leave it, presents a major problem. At Bak Liner we decided that there had to be a better way.

With this problem in mind we designed our TiltBak one piece tonneau cover to be strong enough to carry a load. In fact with the rugged top surface we gave it, this tonneau cover is capable of carrying up to 500 pounds of load on top of it. Since the entire cover and mounting system fit inside the sides of your bed, your stake pockets will completely usable so that you can use them to help hold your load in place for the trip.

Aluminum Tonneau Covers

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Are Aluminum Tonneau Covers Worth the Money?

When you start looking at the different types of tonneau covers on the market, you will see that there are several different styles and a wide selection of different materials being used to make them. One of the more expensive choices is aluminum tonneau covers. The question many buyers have is whether or not those covers made from aluminum are worth the extra money or if one of the other materials would make a better choice.

The answer to this lies mostly with the individual buyer and the reason they are buying one of our aluminum tonneau covers in the first place. At Bak Liner we have built our aluminum tonneau cover with the construction industry in mind. It can carry up to 400 pounds and can be securely locked in place to protect tools and equipment, yet the powder coated finish makes this cover the perfect choice for any owner and well worth the cost.

Retractable Tonneau Covers

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

Retractable Tonneau Covers Make Shopping Easy

Having a truck to make your weekly shopping trips can be a real pleasure; you can stack the groceries in the bed along with everything else. Unlike the trunk of a car where space is always limited and you end up with groceries stacked all over the back seat. The only real problem is security as you do not want leave everything out in the open. Our retractable tonneau covers can solve this problem for you in just a few minutes.

Bak Liner fully retractable tonneau covers only take a few minutes to install and provide you with trunk like security. They are made from aircraft grade aluminum and can be locked using the supplied key. As long as you have a locking tailgate, your purchases are as safe as they would be in the trunk of car and the cover can be opened with one hand for convenience.

Folding Tonneau Covers

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Our Folding Tonneau Covers Leave Your Stake Holes Open

One thing that our designers noticed with many of the folding tonneau covers on the market cover the top of the sides of the bed. This means that your stake holes are covered over and completely useless. We decided that this is not what our buyers want or need and set out to change the way tonneau covers are made, the result is our BakFlip design.

BakFlip folding tonneau covers from Bak Liner mount completely inside the rails of your truck bed. Our revolutionary new mount design keeps everything inside the bed so that you can still use the stake hole for a rack or for stakes when you are carrying a load. To make our folding tonneau covers even more versatile we have made them capable of holding up to 400 pounds so that you can load them up with lumber or any other load you need to take to the job site.

Hard Tonneau Covers

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Solid Security with Hard Tonneau Covers

Those soft tonneau covers you see might provide a way to keep things in your truck bed dry, but when it comes to keeping your tools or your Christmas shopping safe from thieves, they are worthless. Anyone with a sharp knife and a few seconds to spare can split the vinyl wide open and be down the road with your valuable tools in no time at all. Hard tonneau covers on the other hand are lockable and safe.

At Bak Liner we build our hard tonneau covers to keep both the weather and would be thieves out. All of our covers can be ordered with locking mechanisms that when used with a locking tailgate can provide with security that comes very close to if not better than the trunk of your family car. This way you can leave your work tools or that special gift safely locked away with the peace of mind that comes with knowing it will be there when you need it.