Patent ID: 7798752

Claim:
A wheeled vehicle for securely hauling a load that is supported on the vehicle, said wheeled vehicle comprising: a truck bed including a floor with spaced apart forward and rearward ends and a sidewall extending along a periphery of the floor; said sidewall presenting a rear section extending along the rearward end of the bed, said rear section presenting a laterally extending upper edge and an exposed interior surface that extends from the upper edge downwardly toward the floor; and a holding rack operable to secure the load, said holding rack including a rack body being shiftably coupled relative to the interior surface to be shiftable between a stored position and a load-supporting position, said holding rack further including a support frame fixed to and spaced forwardly of the interior surface to receive the rack body and shiftably couple the rack body relative to the interior surface, said rack body being slidably coupled to the support frame, said support frame including a spring-biased locking pin that releasably engages the rack body to prevent sliding movement of the rack body relative to the support frame, said rack body defining a plurality of slots spaced along a rearward end and configured to receive and support the load therein, said rack body being positioned below the upper edge and alongside the interior surface in a generally parallel relationship thereto so that the rack body is located entirely within the truck bed when said rack body is in the stored position, said rack body extending uprightly above the upper edge and the truck bed when in the load-supporting position for supporting the load.