Decked Cargoglide vs Bedslide vs Cargo Ease?

What are your thoughts on the two systems? Who has one? Which do you prefer? Was it worth it?

It appears that Decked acquired Cargoglide last year and may have made a few improvements to the line. I really liked my Decked drawer system and am now kicking myself for getting rid of it since there is a version of the bedside that is compatible with it, especially since I got rid of it thinking I a bedslide would work better for me - which it probably will.

Anyways, I'm looking at full extension heavy duty unit. Cargoglide is $2200 the light duty version, but jumps to $2900/$3000 for the heavy duty units.



Bedslide is $3200 for the full extension slides.



And then there's a third contender - Cargo Ease out of Canadia. Light duty is more expensive than the Cargoglide at $2600; heavy duty is cheaper with one version at $2600 and the other at $2730. Not sure if I have to pay any duties or additional fees if it needs to be imported to states, or if they have a stateside distributor. And, yes, those prices are American dinero.



Decked has the best warranty, Cargo Ease second, Bedslide third. But I'd rather have a solid, quality product than a paper warranty. Downtime costs money. Decked also appears to be the heaviest... but it also doesn't come with an asterisk next to the weight capacity saying *when evenly distributed*. I'm inclined to go with the cargo glide. I know the standard duty 70% extension units are much cheaper - by half - but my only gripe with my Decked drawer system was that the drawers weren't full extension.

 

All of those systems offer some measure of accessibility and/or organization at the expense of weight and space. If I had to choose, it would be the Decked system paired with a cap to offset the loss of bed depth. I’ve thought a lot about it, but I haven’t committed to it because I wouldn’t be able to use my bed the way I often do (hauling mulch, gravel, all of our bikes, etc). I also wouldn’t want to let harvested animal blood seep down between the system and the bedsides. But it would offer more organization for camping and range trips.

As for the others, a short pole with a hook on the end of it can give you just about the exact same utility as a Cargo Ease or Bedslide system at a fraction of the cost.

 

Yes, it takes up some space that could otherwise be used for other things. And it could limit the way I use the bed, so I’ve been hesitant to get one. But my truck gets used much less as the family truckster now that we upgraded our old family car to a sequoia. And I reorganized my bed with Milwaukee packout stuff so that it would be less of a mess. So while everything has a place, it’s much harder to crawl over and around those stinkin packout boxes in the bed to get to the one in the back than it was when they were soft sided bags. So the bedslide is looking more and more attractive. I’ve maybe unloaded the truck once in the last year for anything other than cleaning it out.

I wasn’t too terribly interested in them until I saw them offered as 100% extension units. While twice the price, I would certainly appreciate the 500% better functionality (subjectively speaking) of the full extension rather than the 70%. You still need to reach over the tailgate to access gear in the back. But you don’t need to reach half way in to the bed to reach them now.

I’ve been running a camper shell for years; I used to take it off in the summer and swap if for a tonneau because I felt more limited by the shell. But I haven’t swapped it out for a couple years so I might as well make it more permanent.

As for animal blood, that’s what I carry a tarp That stuff never seems to come out of the bed seams…

 

https://highwayproducts.com/truck-a...0i1eMh2jBIP0Rq9q_SqcZfl2nVQyt0xQaAvmcEALw_wcB

I have their 1200lb slide. Simple aluminum deck. Easy install.

 

Thanks for the recommendation @B.Ross . I’ll look in to that one. I like the all aluminum slide; I kinda feel cheated to see OSB or plywood as the main deck surface on some of these…

 

I just power wash the bed a lot. My truck has the factory bedliner, and I can get it looking as clean as the day I drove it home.

 

Thanks for this post. Now that I have a cap, I have been looking at these. Trying to determine how I want to set up the cargo. I really liked the tool tray I had with the Diamondback for all my tools, cargo straps and recovery stuff. Haven't settled on a solution with my RSI cap yet.

 

with Milwaukee Packouts....



Free shipping if you pick up at H.D.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/HIGHWAY...X-64-FOR-FULLSIZE-5-5-BEDS-4312-102/315435104

@blenton

 

Well, I was leaning toward the Highway slide but it doesn't appear that they make a 100% extension setup, which is kind of a deal breaker for me. Bummer.

So after perusing the inter webs a little more, I found the Cargo Ease Full extension 2000 lb for just under $2200 shipped, or the CargoGlide 1500XL full extension for just under $2700 shipped. The Cargo Ease has about half as many bearings, half as many stops, it's unspecified whether or not they use thrust bearings for side loads (think, parked on ground sloped to the side), and it's a month out. The CargoSlide is rated for less weight but doesn't require its to be "evenly distributed", has more stops and bearings (including side thrust bearings), and should ship next week. But.... the cargo slide is 50 lbs heavier... Maybe that's a good thing for robustness?? I do plan on taking care of this but using it, occasionally to it's limit.

 

Huh. Any consideration for the fact this system would probably leave you with 1,000lbs or less payload?

I can understand getting something that's over-built, but why would one get a system rated for double the remaining payload capacity of the truck?

 

In my research, the only reason to get a system exceeding payload capacity was to get a full slide out.

The 3/4 slide I have gives me full access to the bed without issue.

Maybe OP can't reach?