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In the truck: Better To Have and Not Need!
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items The 'must haves' for your car, truck, or RV! These items can help you when you have a roadside issue - or when you're helping someone else with a roadside issue.
Properly inflated tire not only provide better ride and efficiency, they're safer than under or over inflated tires
Shop Tire Pressure Gauges - JACO
Knowing your tires are over or under inflated is good - being able to do something about it is better!
Mini Air Compressor
A proper sized lug wrench will make repairing a flat tire safer, quicker, and easier.
Lug Wrenches - Tire & Wheel Tools: Automotive
Being able to safely utilize a bottle jack can make Roadside or inside-the-garage repairs safer and easier.
Bottle Jack Buddy
Having an appropriate sized jack for your car, truck, SUV, or RV can make repairs safer and quicker.
Bottle Jacks
Using the wrong too to make repairs is not only unsafe, but costs additional time and money. Be prepared with the right tools for your vehicle.
Roadside Tool Sets
Always make sure you have a way to keep your portable devices charged when you're on the go.
Sells Portable Charger/Adapter/Wall ...
You can never have enough ratchet straps in your truck!! I carry at least twenty with me in a bag I keep in the bed of my truck. Picking up a spur-of-the-moment purchase you need to secure in your truck, or just something to help others alongside the road in case of an emergency. A perfect example of “it's better to have and not need…”
Tie-Down Straps & Ratchet Straps
Ok, so I'll admit it - I'm a 70's kid and harken back to the days when having a CB radio was about as cool as having the latest Schwinn bicycle. Everyone had them.
Fast forward fifty years and the desire to have one is still there, but the reasoning is considerably different.
Having a CB and knowing what channels to be on can help you keep a pulse on traffic, accidents, weather, and just chit-chat with other drivers. You don't need to be a truck driver to have a CB!
Fast forward fifty years and the desire to have one is still there, but the reasoning is considerably different.
Having a CB and knowing what channels to be on can help you keep a pulse on traffic, accidents, weather, and just chit-chat with other drivers. You don't need to be a truck driver to have a CB!
Professional CB Radios - #1 Choice of Truckers
Even with the large size of today's crew cabs, you're likely to run out of storage inside the cab fairly quickly, if you're at all prepared. Having a truck box in the bed of your truck gives you a secure place to store items you don't need on a day-to-day basis, but still have fairly easy access to in the event of an emergency.
There are several styles to choose from, and also different materials they're made from. The most common style goes across the bed of the truck directly behind the cab, with a portion of the box resting on the top of the bed. Depths vary, too, going from just a foot deep to the depth of the bed itself. These are usually bolted to the top of the bed walls for securement.
Another popular style fits inside the bed between the walls of the bed and sits on the bed itself - this can be bolted to the bed for securement. These work well if you have a tonneau cover over the bed of your truck, which will hide this style from passers-by. I once forgot to close up my tonneau and left my truck box unlocked - I was disappointed in myself to see that someone had helped themselves to some of my tools. Lesson learned!
Bed boxes can be made from stainless steel, diamond tuck, and hard plastics / composites. All have their benefits, and all will last quite a long time with good care given to them.
There are several styles to choose from, and also different materials they're made from. The most common style goes across the bed of the truck directly behind the cab, with a portion of the box resting on the top of the bed. Depths vary, too, going from just a foot deep to the depth of the bed itself. These are usually bolted to the top of the bed walls for securement.
Another popular style fits inside the bed between the walls of the bed and sits on the bed itself - this can be bolted to the bed for securement. These work well if you have a tonneau cover over the bed of your truck, which will hide this style from passers-by. I once forgot to close up my tonneau and left my truck box unlocked - I was disappointed in myself to see that someone had helped themselves to some of my tools. Lesson learned!
Bed boxes can be made from stainless steel, diamond tuck, and hard plastics / composites. All have their benefits, and all will last quite a long time with good care given to them.
Truck Boxes | WEATHER GUARD
Tonneau covers and canopies are great for storing additional gear within the bed of your truck, while providing a safe, secure place for your gear.
Tonneau covers come in two basic varieties: soft cover and hard cover. They both do a great job of hiding what is inside the truck bed, and both do a great job of deterring theft.
The other thing both do, is provide protection from the weather - rain, snow, and sunshine. All three forms of weather can lead to some sort of deterioration / decay of your tools and personal belongings in your truck without adequate protection.
Tonneau covers come in two basic varieties: soft cover and hard cover. They both do a great job of hiding what is inside the truck bed, and both do a great job of deterring theft.
The other thing both do, is provide protection from the weather - rain, snow, and sunshine. All three forms of weather can lead to some sort of deterioration / decay of your tools and personal belongings in your truck without adequate protection.
Suburban Toppers
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No vehicle should be without a comprehensive first aid kit. Not that one for blisters or a torn cuticle, no, you want the one for the once-in-a-lifetime trauma you encounter. The one with extra large sanitary gauze, the tourniquet, scissors, and enough supplies to handle just about any situation you might encounter. Once you grab that old, too-small first aid kit and realize it isn't enough to treat that accidental abrasion you get while fishing, you will do some research and get one that will do until the professionals arrive. Better to have and not need….
SurviveX Large First Aid Kit for 3-4 People
When the poop hits the oscilator and you're not home, what will you do to get home or get somewhere safe? Do you have extra clothing? Water? Snacks? Socks? A way to start a fire or get an SAR party's attention? Gloves? A knit hat? It all becomes pretty important when you realize you don't have what you wish you had….
Get Home Bag / Survival Kit
It's winter and you're driving across the mountain pass when you hit some ice and go off the road. There's no other traffic to notice you, let alone stop & help. You're pretty much unhurt, but you're getting cold, your car won't start, or all your windows are busted out and you need some heat. What will you do? A small butane or propane torch provides options you need to survide. To get warm. To create a heat signature for SAR planes, helicopters, or parties who are looking for you to see. To create smoke. To melt water to drink. To cook that squirrel you caught. Sounds extreme, right? Until you find yourself stuck in the snow with no way to stay warm. Better to have and not need….
Butane Torch