Patent ID: 6966597

Claim:
A door/step assembly for a vehicle having a bed or floor, the assembly comprising a door/step for mounting onto the vehicle in a manner allowing the door/step to pivot to open from a closed position and to pivot to close from an opened position, the pivot location ( 17 ) being a few to several inches below the top surface of the bed or floor of the vehicle, the assembly comprised of at least one generally flat surface that, when the door/step is pivotly opened, provides one or more steps to enable a person to step onto the at least one generally flat surface and then onto the bed or floor, the door/step assembly further comprising a top portion and a lower portion, the at least one generally flat surface comprising one surface of the top portion and one surface of the lower portion, the top portion and lower portion being connected with spaced apart links making the assembly capable of separating such that the one surface of the top portion can become a top surface of a lower step that is spaced from and at a lower level than the one surface of the lower portion, that surface forming a top surface of an upper step, the links being so arranged that the one surface of the top portion and the one surface of the bottom portion remain parallel to one another during separation.