Deal Alert: Amazon's Bestselling Truck-Bed Tent Now 40% Off
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Truck-bed tents have quickly become one of the most popular outdoor accessories for pickup owners. If you've been thinking about getting a tent for the bed of your pickup truck, right now you can nab the bestselling truck-bed tent on Amazon at massive savings. Normally around $180, right now you can pick up the Rightline Gear Truck Tent, in either short (five-foot) or standard (6.5-foot) sizes, for just $108. What a steal!
Great deals on summer outdoor accessories are usually hard to come by this late in the season; smart outdoorsy types have stocked up and scored bargains months ago. To see a 40 percent off deal now, with Memorial Day weekend right around the corner and much of the U.S. already feeling the heat, is a rare gift indeed.
Truck-bed tents are more convenient than regular ol' camping tents, and with modern fastening and materials technology you can set one up and break it down, by yourself, in mere minutes. Now, we haven't used or tested this particular tent against the competition—but for a little over a hundred bucks, this is too good a deal to pass up. Even if it only lasts you this year, it's still a bargain.
Made with weather-resistant fabric with tape-sealed seams, this tent gets high marks and great reviews by Amazon buyers. It features a floorless design that allows you to set up and take down the tent without removing any of your gear from the bed—that's handy. Better still, if your truck bed is dirty or grimy from work, you'll appreciate keeping your tent away from that mess; just throw down a tarp, then cover the bed floor with the padding of your choice.
Setting up the tent, which comes with color-coded poles, is a breeze, requiring just one person with both feet planted firmly on the ground. That means no stress on your knees climbing in and out of the truck bed, or using a step stool, to reach high poles. One cheeky Amazon reviewer wrote, "Set up takes 15 minutes; only 10 if the wife doesn't help."
The Rightline pickup truck-bed tent is outfitted with two inner gear pockets, a lantern hook, glow-in-the-dark zipper pulls, and a sky-view vent with a rain fly, for sleeping under the stars and necessary ventilation. All windows and doors have mesh screens and storm covers. Protective heavy-duty straps and plastic buckles won’t damage your truck's finish.
Rightline has eight distinctly sized tents for various pickups and bed sizes, and we found several of them normally priced at either $179.95 or $189.95 (depending on size and style) marked down to just $108.30. There's no telling how long this bargain will last, but with summer picnics, weekend road trips, camping getaways, and park days on the horizon, there's no time to waste.
