Organized service truck compartment with magnetic holders

Organizing a service body: the starter list

A service body has a lot of doors and not many flat surfaces, so everything ends up on the floor of a compartment. The fix is to use the doors. Here is the order we would do it in.

1. Grease gun

The messiest thing in the truck gets a holster on the inside of a door, nozzle down, where it cannot roll. If you carry spare tubes, a grease tube rack goes next to it.

2. Pry bars

Pry bars ride vertically in a magnetic pry bar holder on a compartment wall. Two or three to a holder depending on shank size.

3. Spray cans

Brake clean, penetrating oil, starting fluid. A spray can rack on the door keeps them upright and keeps the caps on.

4. Zip ties and gloves

Both live in a holder on the door, both magnetic. The zip tie holder takes a bundle; the glove holder takes a pair or a box.

5. Screwdrivers and picks

A StruxPro rail with inserts sorts screwdrivers, picks and small ratchets on one strip.

6. Batteries

M18 and 20V battery holders stick inside a door and stop the batteries from rattling around loose.

7. Markers, punches and Loctite

Small holders for the small stuff that always disappears. All magnetic, all a couple bucks.

8. A cup holder

A magnetic cup holder on the fender or on the tailgate, because it is a service truck, not a monastery.

The service truck starter kit has most of this list, and any three take 10 percent off. Aluminum body? Use the bolt-on line instead.

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