[bobbecky]

It depends on where you are likely to be going. Our truck is a 6 1/2 ft bed, and just backing into our spot in Arizona a couple days ago, we were almost 90 degrees from the trailer and if it wasn't for the Pullrite slider, we would have been kissing the cab. If you always intend to get pull through sites and are extremely careful, you can probably get by without a slider, but for us, I have been very glad we sprung for the slider, and an automatic slider at that.