Flip truck bed covers can be found for pickups of most models and makes. One can find various sorts of foldable truck bed tonneau covers. They may be made from aluminum as well as vinyl fabric with steel supports. The more cells your folding truck tonneau cover provides, the more compact the area it can retract into for safe-keeping. Most tops fold from tailgate to cab, although some models have sections facing the other way, giving entry to a truck bed along the bed side. The majority of flip-style truck tonneau covers cost somewhere between $600 to $800.

Several aluminum and soft folding tonneau covers are attached to the truck bed via steel rods. These types of rods need to have some drilling along the ridges of the truck's bed, but some snap into the truck's bed. Once installed, they firmly hold the cover over the pickup's bed. Most folding truck tonneau covers include a lock above the tailgate securing both the top plus the tailgate, making larceny very difficult. Flip-style folding truck covers produced from both kinds of material are compact and simple to work. Each specific cell weighs just a few pounds.

Covers using many more panels fold to be more compact, rendering extra access to the pickup bed. Almost all truck covers can be removed so that your entire bed is uncovered, but it's also helpful to be able to keep the tonneau cover on and still climb into the cargo box. Several flip-style truck bed tonneau covers can be folded so that they rest upon a single section directly behind the cab of the pickup truck if not being used, and have somewhere between two and four panels.

The majority of flip style truck tonneau covers collapse from cab to tailgate, making it possible for added access to your truck's bed as additional sections are rolled back. Many designs have the hinges in the middle, allowing for owners to gain access to the sides of the cargo box opening up from the center. These kinds of tonneaus ordinarily have a pair of panels.

Folding truck bed covers are appropriate for pickup owners who need simple and fast access to their truck beds but also require the protection of a truck tonneau cover.