I just bought 4 tubes of sand (@ 60 lbs each) at Home Depot for $4.50 each. Remember when you put any weight in the bed that it is attached. In one accident in our province a person layed a couple of large hunks of 3 inch steel on the bed, in a rear end collision all the steel made it thru the cab wall hurting the only person in the cab. In a collision or a flip (who knows) this extra weight could come up and kill everyone in your truck or an inocent bystander. By the looks outside today, I'm glad I have the extra weight....

 

i have 6 60lb sand tubes they were like $6 each and it also makes it look like its leveled lol and i have it rhino lined so they havent moved an inch

 

well my trucks are 4x4 but my little chevy doesn't like to work all the time so i put about 20m of 1 1/4" steel line in the box for added traction and tie it down. good winter tires makes a world of difference tho. my buddy put some new toyo open country winter tires on his truck and it does the same in 2wd drive then his pro comp a/t did in 4wd.

 

This morning I went down to Home Depot and bought 4 60lb "sand tube" bags. They where $3.78 each. Its snowing now and I am going to get ready to take my wife to work in a little bit, I will see how good they work.

 

Thats about all you can do... There is also tire chains but they can sometimes run as much as your tires do and can be a pain to take on and off.

I dont recommend using anything steel... as said before rear end collisions can make it a deadly combination.
It doesnt hurt to throw a bag or two of rocksalt in combination with the sand bags... May not give you traction, but will surely melt the ice if needed.

 

Noob

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That's water bag is neat idea but kinda expensive ,over 100 bucks, considering the 60lb sand bags are under 4 bucks each........thanks about the rock salt idea I am going to pick up a bag and trow it in the back just in case.

 

You could also buy a cheap air mattress and fill it up so it freezes into a block of ice. It would work well, but wouldnt last more than a few freeze thaw cycles.

 

Great Idea!

 

Whist I was a yonker growing up in upstate NY, I would go every fall to the same local building supply place who would double bag bulk sand in tight weave burlap type sacks and if memory serves were 50 lbs each. The sand in the sacks would conform to the ribs of the bottom of the truck and wouldn't move much. After the first rain/sleet or whatever then freeze, they NEVER budged...