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.