Ford’s latest patent could drastically increase the usability of pickup truck beds, allowing for customers to nearly double the size of their cargo capacity at the push of a button. The new patent, ...

File this in a long list of "Why hasn't someone done this already?" Ford has a new truck patent that shows it is thinking outside the pickup cargo box, literally. It signals that the Dearborn, MI ...

The typical pickup truck bed is little more than a box with a tailgate, but Ford is envisioning something more elaborate. Four recent patent filings from the automaker show ways to make a pickup bed ...