Regional speech: what do you call this?

I refer to them as toppers (here in FL).

I had never heard anyone refer to them as "Toppers" until about a year or two ago.

Here in Ohio, I have only heard of the as caps, more specifically, truck bed caps.
Here is a big name in the business Leer and they call them caps.

Truck cap...I'm from Ohio

Jamesc2123 wrote: Its definitely only a cap in upstate NY. The flat ones are tonneaus, though I shudder to think how your average upstate NY truck owner would spell "tonneau"...

This.

I'm in IL. When I was younger everyone I knew called them Caps or Truck Caps.

Nowadays everyone is calling them toppers or camper tops.

That's a cap in VT.

Florida born and raised, 20+ years. Always called em and heard em called toppers. wasnt till i moved to AZ then Ohio, i heard ALL of the the other names listed.

EDIT - i just remembered, my middle school was across the street from a place called "Toppertown". they sold truck toppers and tonneaus, flairs, grill guards and the like.

Grew up in SE Ohio, and always knew them as toppers.

jmthunderbirdturbo wrote: they sold truck toppers and tonneaus,flairs, grill guards and the like.

DoctorBlade wrote: I've heard Camper Shell, I'm in MS. Then again, I don't see them much anymore.

I'm from MS and I approve this message. In Indiana I've heard cap and topper.

Windows like that make it a camper shell. Solid/locking sides make it a utility cap/topper. My truck has the latter. I'm in MO.

Western NC they are Caps or Truck Caps.

camper top, from Manitoba, Canada

Toyman01 wrote:

ditchdigger wrote: For the folks that call them campers. What do you call these?

That would be a slide in truck camper.

+1 on slide in camper, ATL Georgia, and Manitoba Canada

clownkiller wrote:

Toyman01 wrote:

ditchdigger wrote: For the folks that call them campers. What do you call these?

That would be a slide in truck camper.

+1 on slide in camper, ATL Georgia, and Manitoba Canada

In Alabama too.

neon4891 wrote:

Jamesc2123 wrote: Its definitely only a cap in upstate NY. The flat ones are tonneaus, though I shudder to think how your average upstate NY truck owner would spell "tonneau"...

This.

I've got this. I have a Ranger with a glasspack.

Tauno.

Thing for a person who realized too late that he should've gotten a van?

Northern KY / Cincinnati: Cap regardless of window count. Never heard them called anything else.

being a military brat and spending a good chunk of my life all over the world around other people from all over the country I've heard all but canopy...

I have a leer high top on my s10 project but only because it was $25 lol... i'm amazed at how much they cost new... def for people that should have gotten a mini van most of the time (outside of a few people like a friend who has a 2500hd with a tool shed topper thing on the bed for work

That's a canopy, slide-ins are campers.

FTW is wrong with people?

In reply to Rufledt:

Canopies keep your race tire and gas can smells where they should be.

Enjoy your stinkvan.

jmthunderbirdturbo wrote: EDIT - i just remembered, my middle school was across the street from a place called "Toppertown". they sold truck toppers and tonneaus, flairs, grill guards and the like.

We have had "Kanopy Kingdom" around here forever. As far back into the 70's as I can remember people have been making "can of pee" jokes about canopys.

most people here in MN call them "toppers"..

i call them "that silly thing that makes it impossible to easily load stuff into the back of my truck".

I've lived in Oregon most of my life and I have almost always heard canopy around here, with camper as a maybe once-in-a-while alternate.

I'm not sure what kind of crazy is spoken elsewhere, but where I come from, this:

is a "topper"

and this:

is a "cap," but what do I know?