Mini truck has open backside.

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"Mini truck is a vehicle that has open backside to carry things from one place to other."

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"A mini truck is a vehicle that has an open backside to carry things from one place to other."

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That sentence is perfectly grammatical but makes no sense.

Perhaps:

The minitruck opens in the back so you can easily put things in it.:-|
 

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Backside is a way to say "buttocks". Trucks don't normally have those.
 

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Do you mean a pick-up truck?
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He probably means a little thing like this.
 

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But there has to be a tailgate to stop the load falling off the back.

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But there has to be a tailgate (out of sight) to stop the load falling off the back.

Flatbed trucks like the one in the picture typically have sockets to drop side- and tailgate assemblies into. We call such vehicles stake side trucks in AmE.
 

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That sentence is perfectly grammatical but makes no sense.

Perhaps:

The minitruck opens in the back so you can easily put things in it.:-|

But it's back is permanently open. It cannot be opened.
 

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Then it's a flatbed minitruck, as we've seen before.

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"It has permanent open back." Is my sentence correct?
 
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It is neither correct (you have forgotten an indefinite article - again), nor a natural way to describe the van.

"Flatbed truck has a permanent open back."
 

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A flatbed truck is a truck with a bed that has no sides or tailgate.
 

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I just did.
 
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You're asking us to play 'Blind Men and the Elephant'. Work vehicles can be equipped in a bewildering array of configurations. If, and only if, you can provide a photo of the vehicle you wish to describe can we offer useful suggestions, other than correcting your use of articles.
 

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That's remarkably similar to the photos Barb and Dave posted earlier. You could have told us then.

But this one has low sides and a tailgate.
 

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