Patent ID: 7284787

Claim:
A pickup truck box assembly having a horizontally extending floor, a pair of inner upright side wall panels fixed relative to said floor adjacent opposite sides thereof and projecting upwardly therefrom, and an inner upright front wall panel fixed relative to said floor and projecting upwardly therefrom adjacent a front side thereof, the front wall panel having opposite ends thereof fixedly interconnected to respective front ends of said side wall panels, the front and side wall panels having generally coplanar upper edges, comprising the improvement wherein said front panel is a monolithic one-piece panel roll-formed from metal sheet and having a downwardly-oriented channel-shaped top rail roll-formed along an upper edge thereof, said front wall panel having a narrow upwardly-oriented shelf roll-formed in the monolithic one-piece panel and extending throughout the length of the front wall panel in generally parallel but spaced downwardly from said top rail, said shelf defining thereon a generally horizontal upwardly-facing support surface accessible from the interior of the box assembly.