A two-sided Jet Hoist sales sheet documents a period aftermarket way to unload a pickup: an electric/hydraulic assembly raises the box to tip out its contents. The photographs show the truck with its box lowered and raised, plus the lifting mechanism beneath it. Source: sales-sheet front.
A different way to lend a hand
Getting a load into a pickup was one job; getting it back out was another. The Jet Hoist tipped the box to unload it. A January 1977 Golf Business notice showed a different approach: the Jet Lift-Gate replaced the ordinary tailgate with an electric/hydraulic cable lift, leaving the box in place. The magazine called it a product of Truckers Supply International. One lifted the load at the rear; the other tipped the bed. It is a small glimpse of the ideas being marketed to make a working pickup more useful. Source: January 1977, printed page 61, “Pickup lift-gate”.
The similar names deserve a little care. The notice does not establish whether Truckers Supply International and the brochure’s Truckers Supply, Inc. were the same company. It also gives no Chevrolet- or GMC-specific fitment, and neither source establishes GM factory installation.
The sheet and its distributor
The front carries a 1976 Truckers Supply, Inc. copyright and printed code 01-082. The reverse names Truckers Supply’s home office in Garland, Texas. An attached Pacific Jet Hoist card identifies a Seattle distributor serving Western Washington and Alaska. Those addresses document the named office and distributor, not the hoist’s manufacturing location. Source: front and distributor card; reverse and home-office imprint.
Advertised Chevrolet and GMC application
The G-3 column specifies 1973-and-later Chevrolet and GMC standard pickups in half-, three-quarter- and one-ton classes, with an eight-foot all-steel box. That is the brochure’s contemporary fitment statement, not open-ended compatibility with every later truck. Separate F-3 and D-3 columns cover Ford and Dodge applications. Source: reverse, custom-fits row.
For the G-3, the sheet advertises dashboard controls, 12-volt DC power, a 40-degree dump angle, a 15-second lifting time and a 4,000-pound distributed hoist load. These are the brochure’s advertised specifications, not independently tested performance results. The hoist-load figure must not be substituted for the truck’s own payload rating. Source: reverse, G-3 specification column.
A separate dating check
The U.S. Copyright Office’s 1977 commercial-prints catalog lists a two-page Jet Hoist advertisement showing a pickup loaded with wood. Entry KK246685 names Truckers Supply, Inc. and gives November 16, 1976. Its description matches this sheet’s subject; the entry does not reproduce the sheet’s 01-082 code. Source: printed page 140, PDF page 158, entry KK246685; catalog record and download.
What this evidence leaves open
The material supports classification as period aftermarket work-truck equipment. It provides no four-wheel-drive-specific fitment statement or proof of a Chevrolet factory option, special edition or Chevrolet-dealer installation. The copyright year also does not establish the photographed pickup’s exact model year or trim. The sheet’s factory-assembly language concerns Jet Hoist components, not installation during the truck’s assembly.
Source scope
This note uses photographed sales literature offered by Lloyd’s Auto Literature, eBay item 274812455538, the separate Copyright Office catalog entry, and the January 1977 Golf Business product notice linked above. The sales-sheet images were preserved October 21, 2026 and visually rechecked October 22, 2026. They are linked as research references, not reproduced as article illustrations.
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