An Efficient Box Truck Build-Out

During the three decades that I've been a carpenter, I've outfitted just about every type of work vehicle imaginable—pickups, vans, and trailers—for getting tools and supplies to and from a job, and I've learned something from each one. But it wasn't until I got serious about organization that my efforts really paid off.

My company specializes in window and door installation and repair, so we have to keep a wide variety of portable power tools and hand tools readily available. We store most of these items in Festool stackable interlocking cases called Systainers (read more about modular tool organizers in JLC Sep/13). These modular boxes are the key to our...