Patent ID: 6846140

Claim:
A truck comprising: a body having a cab, an exterior cargo bed behind the cab, side walls on left and right sides of the exterior cargo bed to serve as boundaries of the exterior cargo bed, wherein the cargo bed has at least one elongated recess formed in the body, the recess being recessed with respect to the contour of adjacent portions of a horizontal plane of the cargo bed; at least one tie-down track mounted on the body along the elongated recess such that a slotted surface of the track does not extend appreciably beyond the horizontal plane of the cargo bed; a tailgate at a rearward end of the exterior cargo bed; and a fitting which can be slidingly moved within the track and then fixed in position, the entire fitting being releasable from the track, wherein the fitting is releasable from the track by twisting and then removing the fitting in a direction approximately perpendicular to the track.