Tonneau cover pivot plate

A pivot plate system that mounts between a tonneau cover and a bed of a pickup truck and enables pivoting of the tonneau cover between substantially horizontal and vertical orientations. The pivot plate system includes first and second pivot plates configured to mount to/on first and second sidewalls of the pickup truck. Each of the first and second pivot plates includes a fixed member configured to mount to/on one of the sidewalls and a moveable plate configured for releasable mounting of a forward section of the tonneau cover thereto. The moveable plate is pivotally connected to the fixed plate at a forward part thereof and is moveable relative to the fixed plate about an axis between the substantially horizontal vertical orientations, such that the tonneau cover is moveable with the moveable plate from the substantially horizontal orientation to the substantially vertical orientation.