Dbone;
It's your truck, pardner, but since you ask, I gotta tell you that even a daily driver looks better with a restored wooden bed, and if you plan to haul rocks from a pit, you can always get some conveyor belting from a scrap yard to protect your bed, but for most any other load a wooden deck is lighter, safer and more durable than steel.
For the moment I have rust paint on my running boards, and I plan to bond ribbed rubber to 'em one day, for safety.
