Patent ID: 6969219

Claim:
An apparatus comprising in combination: a truck having an open bed and a pair of truck sidewalls separated by the open bed; each of the truck sidewalls providing an upfacing, horizontally disposed top panel, and in each of the top panels, at least one vertically disposed flange tube defining a panel aperture in the top panel, the flange tube terminating downwardly at a peripheral edge; and a cargo anchor; the cargo anchor comprising a horizontally disposed cover plate extensive for fully covering the panel aperture, and an anchor bar for securing an anchor line, and a horizontally disposed locator plate, the cover plate and the locator plate mutually engaged by a means for fastening extensive therebetween; the locator plate providing opposing upturned lips positioned exterior to the flange tube so as to limit motion of the locator plate and the cover plate in a first lateral direction, and opposing tabs positioned interior to the flange tube so as to limit motion of the locator plate and the cover plate in a second lateral direction orthogonal to the first lateral direction; whereby a space between the cover plate and the panel aperture cannot occur.