Every car is designed for a specific purpose.
A sedan, for example, is a passenger car and is equipped with two rows of seats to provide comfortable accommodation for passengers.
Meanwhile, a sports car has no rows of spacious seats like a sedan.
Instead, it has an open construction, low built, and powerful motor for optimum acceleration and speed.
On the other hand, a truck is designed with a heavy built and spacious are to serve one main purpose: to transport stuff.
You would not load up your sedan with home improvement/repair equipment; only a truck can handle that.
But sometimes a truck's storage space is not enough.
Let us say that you have a beach house that you need to fix.
The back of your truck would be surely filled with equipment, such as, portable workbench, table saw, etc.
Chances are there would not be enough room left for one important home improvement/repair tool: the ladder.
If there is an essential tool that is required to make home repair jobs easier, then that would be the ladder.
Repainting your beach house or other properties would be extremely difficult if you do not have a ladder.
Imagine how you can repaint the ceiling without a ladder.
And how can you fix that leaking gutter if you do not have a ladder at your disposal? Would you just use an assortment of tables and chairs as an alternative to a ladder? That is an ingenious but unreasonable risky solution which may result to an expensive trip to the hospital.
The best way to accommodate your ladder unto your truck is to simply install a truck ladder rack.
Unlike a roof rack, the ladder rack is specifically made to hold ladders.
In the old days, some folks just fasten their ladders unto their trucks using a couple of tough ropes.
That is obviously not the most perfect and logical solution.
For one thing, it can be a major reason for a roadside accident for the knot may just simply snap off.
Safety is a valuable thing.
Installing a ladder rack on your truck is one of the best decisions that a responsible truck owner should do.
One more great advantage that you can get with a ladder rack is that you can use it to accommodate other equipment aside from a ladder.
A ladder rack can well hold your canoe or kayak.
You can even use it to carry lumber.
Types of Truck Ladder Racks: With the help of steel clampers, a sidemounted truck rack is installed to the side of a truck.
This ladder rack is removable and can be easily fitted unto other trucks.
The downside is that it cannot accommodate heavy loads.
A painter's truck rack is built to carry ladders on the top or side of the truck.
One thing that is great with this type of rack is that it is equipped with tie-down points for ropes and straps for maximum safety.
It also comes with anti-theft fasteners.
On the other hand, an extension ladder rack is built to carry ladders that are more than fifteen feet long.
Equipped with metal pole platform supported by two steel poles, this type of truck ladder rack can carry heavy ladders.