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Horizontal Wheel Well Cutouts to Support a Small Platform, Ply over Two Boards?

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Looking to make a little riser across the wheel wells. Not the whole bed length or area. The wheel wells have cutout-like depressions that start on the horizontal plane, atop the wheel well, but then follow the curve to a vertical orientation. Know what I mean, right?

Do you think two pieces of lumber, laying flat/horizontal (not vertical like you would to make a 'divider' elsewhere) would stay put, at least in the forward/backward motion in those 'grooves' with maybe just a thin sheet of plywood screwed into the top of them? So, ply on top, two pieces of whatever dimension boards underneath, resting in those horizontal cutouts atop the wheel well? Of course it could bounce up and down and therefore out, but I'd tie my load down to a couple anchor points to avoid that.

Looking for a solution to some long, skinny storage when my camp loadout is a bunch of bins, coolers. I've got a 10' x 10' popup canopy, a camp table that breaks down into a long rectangle shape, and two camp chairs that fold like an umbrella (not the 'directors chair' type). I want to make space for them, store a couple bins on top, the rest of the stuff just atop the bed floor, unraised near the tailgate.
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