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Much like car covers, a high quality custom fitted truck cover can protect your pick up truck from a whole cluster of nasty insults to your truck's body. Even if you park your truck in a garage and give it regular washes and polishes, your finish can soon diminish and your truck quickly show its age without the added benefit of using a truck cover. Let's take a look at some of the advantages of owning a truck cover and what you need to look for when considering purchasing a high quality product.

When you choose your truck cover, you will soon discover that even just one manufacturer can make several assorted covers for the same truck model. Simple covers offer partial protection from the elements while first-rate truck covers offer far-reaching protection.

The following are some of the key features found in a high quality truck cover:

Provides protection from harmful and penetrating rays of the sun.

Resists moisture, including rain, snow, sleet, hail, and ice.

Diverts airborne rubbish and/or small impacts on the truck's body including dings, scratches, and unsightly marks.

Limits the ability of pollution, dust, and dirt from marring your finish.

Completely withstands bird excrement, tree sap, bug nesting, feral cats, etc.

Keeps the prying eyes of strangers away from your truck who can rub up against your finish and/or look inside your truck to see what they can steal from it.

The highest quality truck covers generally come equipped with mirror pockets to give your truck a truly snug fit. Most covers are made of 1 to 4 layers of durable polypropylene [a thermoplastic polymer that is highly resistant to acid and chemical solvents]; so the more layers you have means superior protection for your truck from each of the listed hazards.

Garaged pick up trucks, while not subject to the same hazards as one always left outside, are still vulnerable to seeing its finish marred by indoor pollution and dust. Many motorists, in the interest of preserving their finish will garage their trucks and then cover them over with a truck cover to ensure maximum protection.

Prices for truck covers vary, however you can save yourself some cash by purchasing one through a wholesaler who gets their supply directly from the manufacturer. You avoid third party markups and if you shop via an online retailer, you can avoid additional mark ups in price and in some cases get your cover shipped to you for free.

More often than not, your truck cover will come with a warranty. You can expect your high quality truck cover to provide great protection for a reasonable amount of money. A worthy investment, indeed.

Matt Keegan is an article writer as well as an automotive fan. For the best truck bed covers, Covercraft truck covers, or for a discount priced Access Tonneau Cover, shop the Race Pages today!

Tips For Towing Your Travel Trailer Safely

As you can imagine there are many things to take into consideration when towing a travel trailer.  The following are towing tips to make your journey safe and hassle free once your trip begins.

Checklist
When hooking up a travel trailer try to do things in the same order each time and use a checklist.

Tow Ratings
This item is here as a reminder because at this point you should have a tow vehicle that is able to tow the weight of your trailer.  You can find your vehicle's tow ratings in the vehicle owner's manual.  It is crucial that you don't exceed this weight.  Going over the rated weight can cause handling difficulties, insufficient power in a tow vehicle and poor fuel mileage. 

Weight Distribution
Load the trailer properly by storing heavy items low and forward and lightweight articles high.  This will keep the trailer's center of gravity low and will help minimize sway, wobble and swing.  It will enable you to maintain more control over your trailer.

Secure The Load
Make sure everything in your trailer is put away in cabinets and whatever is not in cabinets is safely tied down so it can't move.  Checking the fridge is a good idea to make sure there is nothing that will spill or be thrown around during the trip.  You wouldn't want to get to your destination and find a fridge full of broken eggs or spilled milk.  Not a fun way to start your trip.

Hitch
Check the label to make sure your trailer does not exceed the suggested maximum tongue weight and towing capacity.  Inspect hitch for cracks and rust before hooking up.  The hitch will have 10% of the total trailer weight if trailer is loaded properly.

Ball
Check the label and make sure you don't exceed the suggested towing capacity.  The ball should be lightly greased so trailer can turn smoothly and it should be located so the trailer sits level when attached to tow vehicle.  Inspect ball for cracks and rust before hooking up.

Safety Chains
Safety chains provide added insurance that the trailer will not detach from the tow vehicle.  Attach in a crisscross pattern under the trailer tongue, allowing enough slack for turns, but short enough to not drag along the ground.  This prevents the tongue from dropping to the road if the trailer coupler separates from the hitch ball.

Weight Distributing Bar
By using a weight distribution hitch you are transferring some of the tongue weight to the front axle of your tow vehicle when you set the chains on the bars of the weight distribution hitch.  Finding the correct link point may take a few tries.  If you don’t apply enough tension on the bars, you’ll find yourself swaying, on the other hand if you put too much tension on the bars, you will be taking the weight off the back of vehicle.

Connector
Connectors need constant attention because they tend to corrode easily.  Ensure the wiring is loose enough to make turns without disconnecting or touching the ground.  Once you have it connected check the running lights, turning lights and brake lights to make sure they are working properly.

Brakes
Make sure the brakes are working.

Tires
Checking tires tends to get overlooked when towing a trailer. You should do a thorough check before leaving on a trip by measuring the tire pressure and a quick check whenever you fill up for gas which can be done by feeling each tire with your hand.  Recommended pressures are indicated on the tire sidewalls. Also be sure the tow vehicle's tires are properly inflated.  Please remember that with multiple axles and tandem wheels it is sometimes hard to tell if you have a flat just by looking at the tires because of the manywheels supporting the weight.  You can usualy check this by putting your hand over all the tires, the one that is hottest is the one losing air.  The best way to be safe on the road is to measure the tires.  Overloading and underinflation are the most common causes of tire failure.

Wheel Bearings
The bearings should be kept in good repair. If the bearings are not working correctly, the internal rollers are not moving freely.  If the bearings are not properly greased, they can get so hot that they will actually weld themselves to spindle assembly.  A total failure of wheel bearings will cause the wheel to stop turning which may cause an accident.  In order to prevent this the wheel bearings should be checked at least once a year.

Commercial Weight Scale
The best way to know the actual weights of your tow vehicle, trailer and tongue weight is to use a public commercial weight scale.  In order to be sure you are not overloaded you must weigh the vehicle and trailer fully loaded.  It may take over half an hour to determine your weights but the time you spend doing this will save you time and money with unexpected repairs to your tow vehicle or trailer and possible breakdowns during your trip.   Make sure you write these numbers down and keep them as a reference in the future. 

Towing Mirrors
Towing a trailer creates many blind spots.  Make sure you have adequate mirrors that give you the visibility you need for safe towing.  Adjust your mirrors so you can see at least 200 feet (60m) behind the vehicle once the trailer is hooked up.  If you have limited visibility you have two options; 1. install extended mirrors that replace your current mirrors,  2. attached a small mirror to your existing sideview mirror.  This will enable you to see rear and side approaching traffic and be safe on the road.

About the Author

E. Widmer is an entrepreneur and an avid rv’er. To read more information about travel trailers please click here: www.traveltrailergurus.com

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