To better understand contractor Tom Check’s enthusiasm for his new truck design, it helps to hear him expound on the virtues of one piece of the vehicle’s standard equipment — the tool box.
“The simplicity yet usefulness of this tool box is exactly the design I emulated for the whole truck,” Check says, taking the box from its well crafted spot in the back of the cube. “Everything you need is here, and it’s not too big so you can’t put 200 pounds in it unless you fill it with lead.”