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6 Essential Truck Accessories

With the right truck accessories at your disposal, you can transform your set of wheels into a truly multi-purpose vehicle. These six accessories are a great way to start tapping your truck's full potential.

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1. Truck Bed ExtenderPhoto: Extend-a-Truck truck bed extender, canadiantire.ca

1. Truck Bed Extender

Increasing your truck’s hauling capacity is often possible by adding a bed extender to the tailgate, which can give you several additional feet of carrying space. On the other hand, the tailgate will get a lot of abuse when using a bed extender, since it will used as an extension of the truck bed itself. As such, another useful truck accessory to have is a spare tailgate, since it will almost certainly need replacing several times through the truck’s life. 

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