Truck Cab & Bed Terminology

Double Cab, King Cab, Quad Cab, SuperCab, Access Cab — they mostly mean the same thing. Here's how each truck maker names its cabs and beds, and how they've changed over the years.

Truck makers love to give the same idea a different name. A cab with full front doors and smaller rear doors is an Extended Cab in plain language, but it's a Double Cab at Chevy, GMC and Toyota (on the Tundra), a SuperCab at Ford, a Quad Cab at Ram, a King Cab at Nissan, and an Access Cab or XtraCab at Toyota (on the Tacoma).

To make things worse, the names shift from one generation to the next. Chevy's "Double Cab" used to be called the "Extended Cab," and the bed Chevy calls "Standard" today was the "Short" bed a decade ago.

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Quick decoder (current trucks)

Universal term Chevy / GMC Ford Ram Toyota Nissan
Regular (2 doors) Regular Cab Regular Cab Regular Cab Regular Cab (older Tacoma/Tundra) Single Cab (Titan, 2017–19)
Extended (small rear doors) Double Cab SuperCab Quad Cab Access Cab / XtraCab (Tacoma), Double Cab (Tundra) King Cab
Crew (4 full doors) Crew Cab SuperCrew Crew Cab Double Cab (Tacoma), CrewMax (Tundra) Crew Cab
Extra-large crew — — Mega Cab (HD) — —

Yes, Toyota's "Double Cab" is an extended cab on the Tundra but a full crew cab on the Tacoma. That's exactly why we print the universal term next to the brand's term on every table.