Do you carry an extra jack?

Keep a regular jack on the floor board of my backseat. Not a huge floor jack but a similar smaller one.

I keep an aluminum Harbor Freight floor jack and jack-stands in my work vehicle and bought a set for my fiancée to keep in the tool box of her truck too. Fraction of the weight of steel and have had zero problems. I also have a small 6-ton bottle jack that fits in a smaller tool box.

Measure how much lift you need too, small bottle jack might not have the range you need without a block under it. Same with a small floor jack, they top out around 15" max lift height.

Yep.
8" tall. You can jack it with a big screwdriver if necessary.

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Hate using my truck jack

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Preach. The ford scissor style jack sucks donkey nuts.

I keep two 4x4 blocks and a couple short 2x4's in the bed of truck. Even with factory tires the oem jacks don't have enough travel to get a tire off on the right side of the trucks. HF bottle jack is a cheap investment for those unpredictable times when you have a flat.

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Recs?

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I looked at the high end ones with double cam lockers, etc., but in the end just went with a tractor supply special that was on sale.

Saved a ton of money and it does all I need it to do by being a catch all. (Hold jumper cables, jack, shop rags, etc.) I keep an actual tool box with sockets, screw drivers and stuff like that in the cab under the seat.

Had a cheaper tractor supply box on my old dodge, when I wrecked it in 09, I gave it to my grandpa. He still has it on his truck and doesn't have issues that I'm aware of. I've got a husky on my '15 GMC. The latch doesn't always catch the lid so you have to slam it hard, but I bent it one time closing it with a wrench hung up on it. To answer your question, I carry an old floor jack. Nothing too big.

I believe they make shallow boxes so you can slide stuff under. Might be good for the yak

if you want to see some engineering masterpieces, good 'truck tool box and kayak'