tailgate and truck side beds application_number US 201313890772 A description the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of this disclosure is seen in fig1 through 4 fig1 and 2 show a truck bed payload support comprising a plurality of side stakes 10 which are interconnected by at least one horizontal bar 12 where each of the said plurality of side stakes 10 are sized to be received into an exemplary truck bed vertical support hole 22 and each of the said plurality of side stakes 10 are received into a truck bed vertical support hole 22 the at least one horizontal bar 12 is fixedly interconnected upwardly distal from the truck bed vertical support hole and upwardly distal from an exemplary truck tailgate 28 to the each of the plurality of side stakes 10 the truck bed vertical support hole 22 is upwardly extending at least one horizontal bar leg 18 is downwardly extending from and fixedly attached to the at least one horizontal bar 12 at least one vertical support 14 is fixedly attached to and downwardly extending toward the truck bed from the at least one horizontal bar leg 18 the said at least one vertical support 14 terminates most distal from the at least one horizontal bar 12 in a vertical support base plate 16 resting on a truck bed a side stake leg 20 is outwardly extending from and.