Bed Tag Information

[81f100custom]

This is pertaining to a tag that is located on the outside front right hand lower side of the bed that measure approx. 3 1/2" long by 1 1/2" wide. Is that something that was on all trucks or not so much? Since mine was a special order and there are no exterior paint codes listed on the cert label I assume the 1619 and 5738 would be the 9A white and 6B Sand Metallic codes since that does seem to match the colors of the truck. I would guess the 117 is the wheel base since that matches. FC10A62833 is a partial of the VIN which does match. Box6 I take to be a 6' bed which matches. The others DB, OPT-40, BPN, UM LM, M1R0, 189 I have not really found anything that would tell what they mean or a description. Anyone else have such a tag on there bed or maybe familiar with what some of the codes mean? Not sure why I did not take a picture of this when I had the bed off some years ago (most likely because it was still just film cameras ) but did not. I did however copy the info down just like it was laid out on the tag as you can see here.   

[Gary Lewis]

Eddie - That is usually called a "buck" tag and all of the beds were said to have them.  And all of the cabs supposedly had them as well.  They were then married on the assembly line and that's how they knew for sure they were the right ones.

As for what is on them, Bill/Numberdummy said years ago that you can't decode them.  But you seems to have done a pretty good job.  But I have no idea what the rest of the info means.

[85lebaront2]

Most likely it was assembly plant coding to make sure the correct bed was dropped on the frame on the line.

If you have ever been to one, it is an amazing and very busy place, I had been to the Norfolk Assembly plant several times, first time as quite young, probably 4 or 5 (somewhere before Sept 1951) and they built both cars and trucks there, engines were red or green depending on whether they were for cars or trucks. Went back in the 60s and they were still building both cars and trucks, the last time was after they were only building trucks before it was finally closed. Shame, because that plant had a world wide quality reputation (I learned this from a Mercedes-Benz truck rep). If your truck has an N for plant code it was born there.