When the time comes to buy a new tonneau cover for your pickup truck, you are going to need to spend are fair amount of time looking at the various tonneau covers available. When you do you will find that there are tonneau covers and then there are those that want to be tonneau covers. You might be tempted to try and save money by buying one of the cheapest covers, but in the end you are going to get what you pay for.

The majority of cheap tonneau covers are made from thin plastic or if they are hard covers or vinyl for soft covers. As you might expect neither of these materials is going to last long, as they are simply not going to take much in the way of abuse even though these covers may look great when you first buy them, after just a few months they end up looking like they are several years old. All Bak Liner tonneau covers are made from the finest materials available to ensure that not only do they last for many years, they stay looking good.

A large percentage of contractors complain that by installing a tonneau cover on their truck, they lose the ability to carry bigger loads like lumber without having to remove it first. We took this as a challenge and we decided to find a solution to the problem that would work for everyone. This led to the development of our line of hard tonneau covers, designed to stand up to the construction industry.

At Bak Liner our best hard tonneau covers are built from aircraft grade aluminum and designed specifically with the contractor and construction industry in mind. Once installed properly, this particular style of tonneau cover can hold up to 400 pounds of load. As our hard tonneau covers do not block your stake holes, you can use them to keep your lumber in place and still be able to store all of your tools under the tonneau cover safe and sound.

If the main reason that you are planning to buy a tonneau cover for your truck is to keep your work tools safe and dry, you might think that you should be able to cheap out and by one of those soft vinyl covers. However, you may find out the hard way that this type of cover can be a very costly choice. While this type of cover can keep your tools dry, only one of our locking hard tonneau covers can provide you with the security you need.

At Bak Liner our engineers have designed all of our hard tonneau covers to keep out the weather year after year protecting your tools, however unlike those cheap vinyl covers, they cannot be cut with a box knife. After you have loaded up your tools, 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.

Tough, Dependable and Solid Protection

In the construction industry you have to be able to count on the tonneau cover you buy to keep your tools dry and safe. While you could be tempted to buy a soft tonneau cover to save money, this could be a costly choice. Although this type of cover will 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 in the form of locking hard tonneau covers such as our BakFlip or RollBak covers.

Not only has Bak Liner designed our entire line of hard tonneau covers to keep out the weather year after year to protect your tools, they have also been made tough enough that they can’t 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.

Picking the Best Cover for Your Needs

When you are the proud owner of a pickup truck, you are going to find that you will need to pick from the various types of tonneau covers available to protect whatever you choose to carry in the bed. The hard part is deciding which style is going to be your best choice. You should start by discarding any idea of buying one of those cheap vinyl covers as they do not last long and provide no theft protection.

A much better choice would be one of the hard tonneau covers that we custom manufacture at Bak Liner. Among the more popular choices are our BakFlip covers that fold up in sections and lets you open some or all of your bed. This tonneau cover not only locks securely to prevent theft, it folds up flush against the back of your cab to leave the entire bed open when you need to carry a big load.