The Ultimate Guide to Storing Your Trailer Hitch in a Truck Bed Without Drilling
Updated: May 18
If you tow regularly, you know the problem. You disconnect your hitch, toss it in the bed, and for the next 50 miles it slides around, bangs into everything, and ends up wedged under your toolbox or rolling into your tailgate. If it’s a draw hitch with a ball mount, it’s heavy, awkward, and a shin hazard every time you drop the tailgate.
Most people just live with it. A few drill holes. Neither is a good answer.
Why Drilling Isn’t Worth It
Drilling into your truck bed is a permanent modification that voids warranties, creates rust entry points, and locks you into one mounting location forever. If you sell the truck, you’re explaining holes. If you change your setup, you’re dealing with plugs. For something as simple as hitch storage, it’s overkill.
Why Straps and Bungees Don’t Cut It
Straps work until they don’t. They stretch, they loosen, and a heavy hitch with momentum behind it will find a way to move. Ask anyone who’s found their hitch wedged against their wheel well after a rough road.
The Magnetic Solution
Neodymium magnets have changed what’s possible for truck bed organization. A properly designed magnetic mount can hold a loaded hitch against a steel bed wall with enough force to survive daily driving, rough roads, and highway speeds — without a single bolt into your truck.
The Mag Hitch Pro was built specifically for this problem. Press it flat against any steel bed wall, slide your hitch in, and it holds. No drilling, no straps, no rattling. The magnets are bolted into the mount — not glued — so they’re field replaceable if anything ever happens to one.
It’s been real-world tested with a loaded draw hitch for a full week of daily driving. It didn’t move
What You Need to Know Before You Buy
Not every truck bed works with a magnetic mount. Here’s the quick checklist:
• Steel bed: Magnets work. You’re good.
• Aluminum bed: Magnets won’t adhere. You’d need a steel plate added first.
• Plastic liner or rubber mat: Same issue — the magnet needs direct contact with steel.
If you’re unsure, hold any magnet to your bed wall. If it sticks, you’re set.
Which Size Do You Need?
• Mag Hitch Pro — built for standard 2” hitch shanks. Three bolt-in neodymium magnets. $99.
• Mag Hitch Pro HD — built for heavy duty 2.5” hitch shanks. Four bolt-in neodymium magnets. $149.
Not sure which shank size you have? Measure the square tube that slides into your receiver. If it’s 2 inches across, you want the Pro. If it’s 2.5 inches, you want the HD.
Both are made to order in Owego, NY.
Print Tweak Build Industries LLC — Owego, NY
Designed, tested, and built by someone who actually uses these in a real truck.
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