Weight Bearing Tonneau Cover

How Much Weight Can a Tonneau Cover Hold?

Fulfill your Truck’s Potential

Before you invest in a tonneau cover, it’s important to consider all the ways you plan to use it. Like most folks looking for truck bed covers, you’re excited to protect whatever you plan to transport in your truck bed. But don’t forget about the new and usable space you’ll be creating on top of your tonneau cover! Yes, you can use the top of the cover! Now the question is, how much weight can a tonneau cover hold?

Comparing Weights on Tonneau Covers

Depending on your truck model and bed size, a tonneau cover can bear between 15 and 2,000 pounds on top. Make sure you don’t sell yourself short; invest in a tonneau cover that’s up for any adventure or project.

The most inexpensive tonneau covers are also the least strong. Soft tonneau covers are not only vulnerable to poor weather conditions, but lack security. Plus they can only hold between 15 and 30lbs on top. 

Lomax Pro Cover

Another option would be a fiberglass tonneau cover, which can often hold between 80 and 110lbs of weight. However these covers lack serious functionality; by maxing out at just over 100lbs, they won’t even bear the weight of a few inches of wet snow. 

Load Bearing Truck Bed Cover

If you want endless possibilities, you need a tonneau cover that’s built to last. You never know when you’ll need to pick up a new dryer to save on delivery fees, or building supplies at Home Depot. Plus, with a load-bearing truck bed cover, you can bring your snowmobile or ATV along for your next adventure.

ATV on a Tonneau Covers in utah
load bearing ATV tonneau cover.

Folding tonneau covers start to open up the possibilities. How much weight can a folding tonneau cover hold? Well, a Paragon tops out at 300lbs and a Diamondback can’t handle more than 1,600 pounds. But a Renegade Cover? It leads the industry in weight-bearing capacity. 

How Much Weight can a Tonneau Cover Hold?

With a Renegade heavy-duty hard tonneau cover, you can say goodbye to your worries. Able to hold 2,000lbs, it has the necessary structural support to keep your cargo in place while your truck is on the go. Plus it has a smooth top to ensure easy sliding action to load sheets of wood. 

how much weight can a tonneau cover hold?

With a weight-bearing tonneau cover, you can trust it to hold your weight if you need to stand on top of it. In fact, it would hold the weight of a mule. The options for everything in between are unlimited. 

Imagine the difference this will make for a cross-country road-trip or move! Add racks to the top and you could get into overlanding, or take your kayaking, mountain biking, or skiing habit to the next level. Unleash your true potential, and that of your truck, with Renegade.

Overlanding truck bed cover
Renegade Racks with Roof Tent

Order Your Weight Bearing Tonneau Cover Today

Once you experience the flexibility of a strong tonneau cover, you’ll never go back. No matter what adventure or challenge is ahead, with Renegade you’ll be ready. Order yours today to make the most out of your pickup.

Truck Bed Cover for Hunting

Buck Fever

As you look forward to the next hunting season, make sure this one is better than the rest. This starts with a truck bed cover for hunting. Trust us, this will change everything. 

Pre-Season Preparations 

Your Renegade Cover will not only provide a solid surface to sight your scope, but provide ample room underneath so you’re always ready for the hunt. How else are you going to hit your bag limit? 

truck bed cover for hunting

Don’t take a shotgun approach to your hunting needs, semi-automate it. Adding a truck bed cover to your set up means you have plenty of room to safely store and transport your cooler, extra clothing, blinds, expensive gear, and more.

Transport Game and Guns 

A Renegade Cover makes an overnight trip a breeze, because of all the storage space. But it also helps you make hunting a more regular part of your life. As soon as you get off work for the week, you’ll be able to jump in your truck and head out. 

Less time preparing to hunt, means more time in the great outdoors. Plus, a secure truck bed cover will make it that much easier to head out before or after work, or just for the afternoon. 

tonneau cover for hunting
Sleek Tonneau Cover with Customization

Another option is utilizing your truck bed cover as a means of transporting your four-wheeler. Your truck can only get you so far; bringing the 4×4 along means you can get to even more remote hunting spots. But not just any truck bed cover can handle the weight; be sure your new cover can hold up to 2,000 lbs – the Renegade Cover can. 

truck bed cover for hunting
Accessory Hooks for L-Track

If you’re curious about the True Bolt-Action AR rifle shown throughout these photos, it’s from a Utah local business called Uintah Precision. The Renegade Hooks shown above are perfect for holding your rifle while hunting, holding a trash bag in camp, etc.

Safety First 

Whether you’re into hunting, fishing, or archery, a truck bed cover will change the way you play. For example, if you make a kill early in the day, after field dressing it you’ve got to figure out how to protect it from other animals. Plus, you need to keep it from overheating or getting soaked by any inclement weather. 

An Aluminum trifold truck bed cover
Lockable Aluminum truck cover. A heavy duty design that can haul on top up to 2,000 lbs

With a truck bed cover for hunting, you can pack the deer’s cavity with ice and secure it in your truck bed. Get back to hunt, confident your meat will be safe to eat. 

Plus, if you stop somewhere on the way home, with a Renegade Cover you can be sure your guns and ammo will be secure. Leaving them vulnerable in the cab really isn’t a good option.

Truck Bed Cover for Hunting

Whether you’re looking for small game, like duck, goose, rabbits, or pheasants, or you’ve got your eye on an elk or deer, a truck bed cover for hunting will make all the difference. Each state’s hunting seasons vary, but you can be ready for them all with a Renegade Cover.

A turkey for Thanksgiving dinner may make you proud, but can’t you imagine tying an 8-point buck with a 22 inch spread to the top of your truck bed cover? 

Make all your hunting buddies jealous on the way home and be sure to drive through the main streets of town. Thanks to Renegade, your hunting game will never be the same, and neither will your reputation. 

Metal Truck Bed Cover

The Renegade Advantage

Imagine a summer afternoon, driving in your truck with the windows down, Van Halen blaring in the background. “When’s the last time you did something for the first time?” sings David Lee Roth. Well, enough daydreaming, let’s dive into the advantages of a metal truck bed cover.

bike rack for truck bed cover

With your new Renegade Cover in place, the answer is easy. You get to try new things all the time – whether paddle boarding, mountain biking, or snowmobiling. It’s easy to load up your gear and hit the road. 

Metal Truck Bed Covers

Whether you prefer Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, or Bon Jovi, there are plenty of metal bands to compliment your metal truck bed cover. However, it’s important to consider the quality of the aluminum used to build it. 

hard trifold truck cover

Metal truck bed covers are typically made from aluminum alloys, that is, a combination of aluminum with copper, manganese, and more. The most common types of aluminum alloys used in the automobile industry are magnesium and silicon. An alloy that adds zinc to the mix is going to be even stronger, and therefore is what the aerospace industry relies on.

Why Aluminum? 

With Renegade, you can shop with confidence, knowing that its Military-Grade aluminum isn’t shying away from the fight. In addition, with a weight-bearing capacity of 2,000 lbs, you’ll be ready for any load. 

However, you won’t be sacrificing flexibility for all that strength. Rather, with Renegade, you find the perfect combination: a high-quality metal truck bed cover that will withstand whatever challenges it faces, while being incredibly user friendly.

hard truck bed cover

Endurance is the name of the game, whether you’re talking about Mötley Crüe or a metal truck bed cover. Plus your aluminum hard tonneau cover will be paired with a bed liner sprayed diamond plating and factory-applied powder coating, ensuring your new truck bed cover will resist the threat of annoying scratches and more. 

In addition, at Renegade, we guarantee your new cover will be free of defects in material and workmanship – a perfect product, every time. 

Metalheads

“You’re living in the golden years,” at least according to Iron Maiden. Don’t waste time with a subpar metal truck bed cover. Order a Renegade Cover, knowing it will fit your truck’s make and model just right, and get back to enjoying Aerosmith, Judas Priest and Kiss.

metal truck bed cover

After all, just like the metal music you love, your new metal truck bed cover has it all. While heavy metal drumming is known for the “trifecta of speed, power, and precision,” so too Renegade is easy to install, stronger than its counterparts, and precisely what you need. 

Though heavy metal fans might lean toward grungy jeans, but their black t-shirts, boots, and leather jackets will match Renegade’s sleek design. 

Best Metal Truck Bed Cover

Whether you like heavy metal, or prefer another kind of rock music, a Renegade tonneau cover is a key accessory for your truck. We haven’t asked them, but Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple would probably agree. 

So get back to the adventures you love, and the metal music playing in the background. Order your Renegade Cover today.

Hard Tonneau Cover

Though hard seltzers are being pulled from stores’ shelves in Utah, don’t fret. Hard tonneau covers are here to stay. No legislative bill can stand up to the strength, security, and style of the Renegade Cover. 

Considering Alternatives 

Perhaps you’re not ready to admit the truth. Maybe a soft tonneau cover will do! While vinyl, canvas, or another cloth material does provide a cheap option, it’s just that: cheap. These simply won’t be reliable products. But did you know the quality of hard tonneau covers vary too? 

From a meta perspective, you’ve got plastic, fiberglass, and aluminum. However, the first two don’t merit much attention, as one-piece or single-panel truck bed covers lack serious functionality. Don’t even get us started on load-bearing strength!

hard tonneau cover

In your search, you may find retractable or roll-up covers that feature aluminum. A low cost and solid product? Nope, it’s too good to be true. These covers have serious security flaws, plus they aren’t strong enough to carry any weight on top, limiting their usefulness.

Hard Tonneau Cover

So what now? Is it even possible to find this unicorn of a hard tonneau cover for your beloved truck? 

hard truck bed cover

Aluminum, folded, hard tonneau covers seem like the way to go, and this seems simple enough. But no two are the same. It’s important to ask the following: 

1. What’s the functionality of the panels? Do they fold over onto the others, or do they simple open at an angle to grant access? 

2. If they fold up, do they stay in place? Do they block the view out your back window? 

3. How does it look? Is it a low-profile cover or bulky? Is it smooth on top, so you could slide something onto it, or are there brackets in the way? 

4. What’s the weight-bearing capacity? Would it hold you if you needed to get up there? What about a snowmobile or overloading set-up? 

5. Is it secure? How does the lock work? What number of locking pins are there? 

6. What’s the installation process like? How can you be sure it will fit seamlessly on your truck? 

7. How well does it work with accessories? Will drilling be necessary? 

The questions go on and on. But, lucky for you, Renegade answers them all. 

Renegade is a tri-fold hard tonneau cover, that fold up fully to a height of 6 inches, which doesn’t block your back window. It’s low profile, at 1.5″ high and doesn’t have any protruding pieces of hardware. The Renegade Cover can hold up to 2,000 lbs on top and locks securely without any keys. No drill installation and no drilling to add accessories into the integrated L-track.

The Renegade Difference

With Renegade though, you’ll have a cover made of Military-Grade aluminum, built to withstand any challenge – manmade or a force of nature. This trifold hard tonneau cover has a weight-bearing capacity of 2,000 lbs, making you ready for any load. 

hard trifold truck cover
Heavy Duty Weight Bearing Truck Bed Cover

This low-profile cover folds up efficiently, without blocking your rear view or taking up space in your truck bed. It only measures 6″ in height when folded. Plus, it’s as smooth as can be, ready to slide a piece of plywood or hold whatever’s loaded on top evenly. 

hard tonneau cover

It’s also simple to install (or remove) without a drill, while still being the most secure hard tonneau cover on the market! Renegade offers key accessories, as well as the functionality to work with your favorite racks. 

Got more questions? Bring them on. But, spoiler alert, Renegade is the best hard tonneau cover out there. What are you waiting for? 

Tonneau Cover for Ram 2500

Since 1900, Dodge has been providing vehicles to America. When Ram split off in 2010, the company dedicated itself to highly capable, luxury trucks. Now, thanks to Renegade, there’s a perfectly paired tonneau cover for the Ram 2500. 

Get the Job Done with Ram 2500

Whether you chose a Ram 2500 because of its potential as a work or family vehicle, it’s a massive investment in your future. With a maximum towing capacity of 20,000 pounds and the ability to take on 3,160 in payload, your new truck is ready to haul serious loads.

Ram 2500 tonneau cover

What can’t you put on a Renegade?

If you make the mistake of pairing your Ram with a less-than capable tonneau cover, it’s going to look out of place. What’s the point of a Paragon cover if it can only hold 300lbs? Even a DiamondBack isn’t up to the task, topping out at 1,600lbs. Your truck deserves a heavy-duty cover that’s up to the challenge.

Show your Game Face

Your Ram 2500, when outfitted with a Renegade Cover, will be able to hold up to 2,000 pounds on top of the truck bed cover. Once you unlock the potential of utilizing the space on top of your truck bed cover, you’ll never go back. 

tonneau cover for ram 2500

A tonneau cover will be especially important if you select a Ram truck with integrated towing hardware. After all, this will allow you to transport items on top and underneath it. Make sure you are ready to use your full-size quarter ton pickup truck to its fullest potential.

Choose your Beast

Whether you have a Ram 2500 or another large heavy-duty pickup, Renegade is ready with the cover of your dreams. It’s got what you need in terms of security, flexibility, and durability. In fact, it can even resist snow, mud, rain, wind, and dust.

Make the most out of your Ram 2500 by pairing it with a strong and reliable truck bed cover. And then, add on whatever accessories float your boat – from Aero Bars to Renegade Racks or Headache Racks. Renegade has designed truck bed cover accessories with you and your passions in mind.

pick up truck cover overlanding setup

Renegade Tonneau Cover for Ram 2500

Now make it yours. All that’s left to do is figure out where you’re going to take your Ram 2500 first. The hardware store or to the Uintas for a mountain getaway? 

Whatever your plan is, with a Renegade Cover your truck will be ready to take on even unpredictable situations. Renegade is waiting. Order a Renegade tonneau cover for your Ram 2500 today!

 

GMC Sierra 2500 Tonneau Cover

Your GMC Sierra 2500 isn’t built to sit in the garage, but to enjoy the open road. With blue skies ahead and salty sunflower seeds in the cupholder, all your worries fade away. That is…if you have a Renegade tonneau cover over the truck bed. 

We are Professional Grade

As a brand, GMC is known for is its long history of manufacturing trucks, having been a leader in innovation and engineering since 1902! 

The Sierra 2500HD is a highly capable heavy-duty truck, and it deserves a tonneau cover of the same quality. After all, before considering an off-road trip, you need to know whatever stored in the truck bed is going to be safe. 

Most Secure Tonneau Cover
Cover release lever

Security is also a concern when you’re around town, so make sure to invest in a locking truck bed cover. That doesn’t mean a lock and key, but a cover that’s secure as soon as you close the tailgate, and one with plenty of locking pins.

The Strength of Experience 

With a payload capacity of up to 3,900 pounds, it’s a joke to think about adding a Paragon (which can only handle 300lbs) or a DiamondBack (which tops out at 1,600lbs) to your Sierra 2500. You need a truly heavy-duty cover, and for that, you’ve come to the right place.

GMC Sierra 2500 tonneau cover

When outfitted with a Renegade Cover, your GMC Sierra 2500 will hold up to 2,000 pounds on top! Once you unlock the potential of utilizing the space on top of your truck bed cover, you’ll never go back. 

GMC Sierra with Renegade
GMC Sierra with Renegade

With a load bearing truck bed cover, you’ll be set free to transport items on top and underneath it. This kind of flexibility releases you from any kind of buyer’s remorse. You can be sure that your Renegade Cover is ready to meet whatever challenge is ahead. 

Like a Pro

Maybe you’re planning a hunting trip in Montana or a getaway to the Oregon Coast; plan away, because your new Renegade Cover is ready to take on even unpredictable situations. 

Make the most out of your GMC Sierra 2500 by using a reliable and strong truck bed cover that can resist snow, mud, rain, wind, and dust.

If you want a tonneau cover for your GMC Sierra 2500 that you can rely on, order your Renegade Cover today.

Snowmobile on a Tonneau Cover

It’s officially snowmobile season! There’s nothing like setting out for some backcountry powder. The main ways to get out on a snowmobile depend on your budget, interests, and where you plan to go. If you have a truck, loading your snowmobile on a tonneau cover is a convenient option.

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2023’s Best Hard Folding Tonneau Cover

The ultimate customizable weight bearing trifold tonneau cover.

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Comparison Between Renegade DiamondBack and Peragon

Your truck is more than a vehicle, it’s a statement. Trucks show the world that you are a go-getter, someone who’s not afraid to get things done. A tonneau cover points to the quality of your work. Now, you may be looking at the options for your truck bed cover so below is a comparison of Renegade, DiamondBack, and Peragon tonneau covers.

You care about protecting the things you have and aren’t willing to waste time and money replacing weather-worn or stolen items. You’re prepared to take on any challenge, no matter the strength, perseverance, or grit required. 

Which Cover is Right for Me? 

But ensuring your truck bed cover meets your high standards can be an overwhelming process. Besides, you want to make sure you’re making a wise investment. 

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Renegade
DiamondBack Cover
DiamondBack
Peragon

Let’s keep it simple, sticking to the facts in a comparison of Renegade, DiamondBack, and Peragon tonneau covers.


RenegadeDiamondBackPeragon
Weight-Bearing2,000 lbs.1,600 lbs.300 lbs.
MaterialMilitary-grade AluminumAluminum alloyAluminum
Folding StyleTri-foldTrunk-styleCanister
Weather ProtectionWeather-tight Water, dust, and mud resistantWeather-tightWeather-tight
ManufacturingMade in the USAMade in the USAMade in the USA
SecurityLocking mechanism, connected to tailgate No separate keyDeadbolt locksDual deadbolt Separate key
AccessoriesRacks, straps, bars, headache racks, Riptide, L-track systemRacks, bars, bins, overlanding, headache racks Tie-down cleatsNone
PriceFrom $2,395From $2,299From $949

Why We Love Renegade

Each cover has its merits; it comes down to what’s best for you and your needs. For example, Peragon offers the most inexpensive option, but it also has the least load-bearing capacity. DiamondBack is a solid option, but it’s the way it folds limits its usability. 

ATV on a Tonneau Covers in utah
load bearing ATV tonneau cover.

The Renegade Cover holds the title of the strongest tonneau cover in the industry, boasting a load capacity of 2,000 lbs. Thanks to its military-grade aluminum and tri-fold design, it is easy to manage and use in a variety of ways. The truck bed remains secure, and it has a ton of accessories for you to make it your own. From tie-down anchors to racks and even the unique Riptide system, Renegade excels at providing easy and powerful accessories.

No More Comparing

At the end of the day, we want you to be thrilled with your truck bed cover. That way, you can focus on the work that demands your every breath, and the adventures that take your breath away. 

But if you’re asking…the choice is obvious to us: Renegade. So get your Renegade tonneau cover today and discover what you’ve been missing. 

The Ultimate Truck Bed Cover for Contractors

Renegade is the perfect truck bed cover for contractors. You can put a pallet of building materials on top like a flatbed. Holds 2,000 lbs!

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America’s Toughest Cover

Built for Adventure, Overlanding,
Construction, and Daily Use
People Love the Quality, Security, and Versatility

We’ve Got You Covered

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America’s Toughest Cover

Built for Adventure, Overlanding,
Construction, and Daily Use
People Love the Quality, Security, and Versatility

We’ve Got You Covered

Unleash Your Full Potential