That's actually a bar that I made and then bolted to the front of the bed. I did a post awhile back in the "What did you do..." thread about it. Here's a pic of the bar before I sent it out for powdercoating.



It's made of some heavy wall rectangular tubing, flat steel and some solid rings that I cut in half for tie down hook points.

 

Krylon has a fan spray tip that you can rotate for a vertical or horizontal spray. Rustoleum is crap in my book because I had 4 different cans splooge out around the neck of the nozzle and screw up what I was painting, so I had to wipe it off while it was still wet and try again.
My Herculiner looks like a dry lake bed because I didn't use the UV protection. The UV protection is to keep it shiney and to keep it from cracking/shrinking in the sun. I was under the impression that it was just to keep it shiney so I didn't use it because I don't mine the inside of the bed fading.

I do like the grip of the Herculiner though, it feels like walking on coarse sandpaper. I can set a gas can in any corner of the bed and go for a 40 mile drive and when I get there it will still be in the exact same spot.