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Silverado Bed Sizes, Charted: Short, Standard, Long — and What Actually Fits
Every Chevy Silverado bed length by cab configuration and generation, actual dimensions in feet and inches, and what fits in each.
By Dale Hutchins · · 1 min read
Silverado bed names — short, standard, long — sound simple until you’re standing at a lumber rack. Here are the actual numbers.
Current generation (2019+ T1XX, 1500)
| Bed | Length | Width (walls / wheelhouse) | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short | 69.9” (5‘10”) | 71.4” / 50.6” | 62.9 ft³ |
| Standard | 79.4” (6‘7”) | 71.4” / 50.6” | 71.7 ft³ |
| Long | 98.2” (8‘2”) | 71.4” / 50.6” | 89.1 ft³ |
Cab pairings do the real deciding: Crew Cab takes short or standard; Double Cab comes standard-bed; Regular Cab pairs with the long bed. The combination you want — crew cab, long bed — exists only in HD trucks.
The measurements that answer real questions
- Plywood flat between the wheelhouses? No — 50.6” clears 48” sheets by an inch either side width-wise, but only the 8-foot bed closes the tailgate on a full sheet lying flat. Short and standard beds carry sheets tailgate-down (with the load angle) or on the wheel-arch shelf.
- Tailgate-down adds roughly 21 inches of supported length.
- HD beds (2020+): 6‘9” standard and 8‘2” long, slightly taller walls.
Older generations, briefly
K2XX (2014–2018): 5‘8” / 6‘6” / 8‘1”. GMT900 (2007–2013): same trio within an inch. The classic GMT800 (1999–2006): 6‘6” and 8’ with the 5‘8” arriving on crew cabs. Across every generation the pattern holds — the marketing name changes less than an inch of steel does.
Buying advice from the lumber lot
The standard/6‘7” bed is the do-most-things answer: full sheets ride flat on the arches with the gate up, and the truck still fits a garage. Buy the 8-footer only if you actually haul 8-foot material inside the walls weekly — and check your garage depth first: a crew-cab standard-bed T1XX already runs 231.7 inches, and the long-bed regular cab out-measures it.