The short answer: Yes, but only with one rack. The Leitner ACS FORGED is the only truck bed rack with a sliding rear load bar — a patented feature that lets you slide the rear bar forward, freeing up enough vertical space to load a motorcycle. Every other bed rack on the market forces you to unbolt the rear crossbar every time you load up.
This isn't a minor convenience feature. It's the reason the ACS exists at all.
The Problem That Started Leitner
Leitner founder Bernhard Leitner is a motorcyclist. He wanted a bed rack that could carry gear and still let him load his bike into the bed. Simple enough request. But when he looked at what was on the market, every rack had the same problem: a fixed rear crossbar that prevented loading cargo taller than the rack.
The load bars on a bed rack sit at cab roof height. A motorcycle standing upright in the bed is taller than that. With a fixed rear crossbar, you can't roll a bike in — it hits the bar from below. Your only option was to unbolt the rear crossbar, load the bike, then reinstall it. Every time.
That didn't make sense. A bed rack should expand what your truck can do, not limit it.
So Bernhard built something that didn't exist: a bed rack with a rear load bar that slides forward to create vertical clearance at the back of the bed. The ACS was designed around this feature from day one. Motorcycles came first. Overlanding came later.
How the Sliding Rear Load Bar Works
The ACS FORGED mounts to the truck bed via support arms that bolt to the D-pillars. Uprights at the corners connect to side top rails that run the length of the bed. The load bars sit on top of these side top rails, running across the bed. To reposition the rear bar, you loosen the mounting hardware, slide it forward along the side rails, and retighten. Takes about 30 seconds.
When you need to load a motorcycle, you slide the rear load bar forward toward the cab. This opens up vertical clearance at the back of the bed — the space where your bike will stand. Roll the bike in over the tailgate, strap it down. The rear bar stays forward for the trip, since the handlebars typically prevent sliding it back.
The bar maintains full load capacity in any position. You're not compromising strength for adjustability. The structural engineering is in the uprights and the frame, not the load bar position.
In The Field
William Roberson at ADVRider put the system through its paces with his DR650. After sliding the rear bar forward and loading the bike, he found he still had room in the bed for two bicycles and additional gear. As he put it: "The fact I can pop my bike in plus a literal ton of other gear without removing it just adds to its appeal."
That's the kind of flexibility you get when the rack was designed for motorcyclists from the start — not adapted for them later.
Why No Other Rack Can Do This
Other manufacturers use fixed crossbar positions because it's simpler and cheaper to engineer. A fixed bar bolted to a fixed upright is easy. A sliding system that maintains full load capacity in any position requires precisely machined arms, tensile-loaded fasteners, and a frame designed to carry the load regardless of where the bar sits.
Leitner patented the sliding rear load bar because no one else had solved the problem. It's the only bed rack system with infinite rear crossbar repositioning that maintains full rated load capacity.
Beyond Motorcycles
The sliding rear load bar was designed for motorcycles, but it solves any problem involving cargo taller than the rack:
ATVs and side-by-sides: Same principle. Slide the rear bar forward, create vertical clearance, load the machine.
Tall cargo: Loading a refrigerator, furniture, or anything taller than cab height? Slide the rear bar forward to clear it.
Variable loads: Different trips, different gear. Position the rear bar where it makes sense for what you're hauling instead of working around a fixed bar.
What the Competition Offers (And Doesn't)
Here's what you'll find on other bed racks:
KUAT IBEX: Telescoping crossbars (width adjustment), height adjustment. No fore-aft sliding. Fixed rear bar blocks tall cargo.
Yakima OverHaul HD: Height adjustment only (19"-30"). Fixed crossbar positions. Fixed rear bar blocks tall cargo.
Thule TracRac: Sliding uprights along base rails. Better than most, but the crossbar travels with the upright — you can't independently reposition just the rear bar.
CBI Offroad: Fixed everything. Unbolt the bar or unbolt the rack.
TRUK'D: Height adjustment in 2" increments. Fixed fore-aft positions. Fixed rear bar blocks tall cargo.
The Bottom Line
If you haul a motorcycle — or an ATV, or anything taller than cab height — the Leitner ACS FORGED is the only bed rack that doesn't force you to unbolt parts every time you load up. The sliding rear load bar is patented, it's unique to Leitner, and it's the feature that started the entire company.
A bed rack should expand what your truck can do. Not limit it.