Is it any closer to a potential load than any other trucks rear window?
Yes, in a traditional truck the cab came first, with its own back wall. The back was either just bare frame rails, or maybe a flatbed, or (in a "pickup") a steel box that bolted to those rails behind the cab:
Ok, a standard bucket would be farther back from the glass by a couple of inches. But both have no buffer above the top level of the bed walls. Is there a real world difference such that one gets broken glass and the other doesn't...from tumbling firewood above the bed level and at glass level?Yes, in a traditional truck the cab came first, with its own back wall. The back was either just bare frame rails, or maybe a flatbed, or (in a "pickup") a steel box that bolted to those rails behind the cab:
Sorry for the weird low-rider and hinged floor, first image that came up with a good angle. Or for something more recent:
Left is the cab, right is the bed, you can see a foam gasket in the latter image...but the gap on most old trucks I've been around is an inaccessible well of pine needles and muck.
A headache rack would sit on that front wall of the bed like a topper/cap, and have an ~2" gap between the steel mesh or bars and the window. A topper would have its own front window separate from the truck's rear window, with a little space between them.
But in the Slate, the back wall of the cab *is* the front wall of the bed and is the bulkhead removed to make it an SUV. There's no gap. A headache rack would have to be installed behind the front of the bed to give it any buffer so that a chunk of firewood doesn't tumble awkwardly and destroy the rear window like ~17yo me in my Dad's C2500.
Just wondering have Maverick or Santa Cruze owners experienced a problem like that. For that matter first Gen Honda Ridgeline too.
