Portable luggage carrier for pickup trucks

Claim 1

A portable luggage carrier for mounting transversely in the open bed of a pickup truck which has a floor and a pair of upright side panels extending along opposite longitudinal sides of said floor and at least two pair of longitudinally spaced transversely aligned holes in said upright panels adjacent to the upper edges thereof, said portable luggage carrier comprising a flexible elongated bag having a lid, a bottom, front and back longitudinal side walls and a pair of opposite end walls connected to said bottom and extending upwardly therefrom forming a continuous enclosure about said bottom, said side walls each having an upper edge, a tubular casing attached to each of said side walls adjacent to and parallel to the upper edge thereof, a pair of telescoping support rods, therebeing one support rod extending longitudinally through each of said casings with opposite ends projecting outwardly of the opposite ends of said casing, each of said support rods being adjustable in length so that the opposite ends thereof may be extended through one of said two pair of transversely aligned holes in said side panels for supporting said flexible bag from said side panels.