The Well-Prepared Truck

Gotta-have items our editors carry everywhere

- Mike Berner

Easy bed liner

Know about Bagster bags? You can buy one for about $30 at a home center or Amazon. Fill it with demolition or other debris, the schedule a pickup by Waste Management, which costs about $135. I buy the bag, skip the pickup and use it over and over as a truck bed liner for hauling demo and law and garden debris. It makes unloading at the dump or compost site super easy, and my pickup bed stays immaculate. Refolded carefully, it fits under the seat.

Moving blanket

A cheap moving blanket is a nice thing to have in your truck. A few uses:

Put it on the ground to keep yourself clean and prevent losing nuts and bolts.

Use it to cover your carpeting when you’re slogging through mud at job sites.