The thing that we just love about the BAKflip G2 cover, is that when you’re not using it to secure the contents of your truck bed, you can use it as a marketing tool. Typically when people are driving these days, they don’t see the signs that have become monuments on the side of the road, because they’re so used to them and they simply ignore them. Peope pay attention to moving billboards these days, and as I’ve said before, people get so used to looking at cars on the road or trucks with marketing painted on, they don’t even pay attention anymore unless it’s a Friday on the way back from work and they’re in a good mood, getting ready to hit happy hour and they’re trying to think about something to talk about when they get there, so the blood starts pumping, they think they’re going to be a millionaire next week because of the alcohol that’s stretching a helping hand out while waiting for them at the nearest party spot, so, they look and read the sign. But we have discovered a hot new way to advertise your stuff, at the same time advertising the BAKflip cover itself. Take a look at this video and see for yourself, what a kick ass marketing tool this cover can be for your new business. Not to mention it will make you look creative, on top of things, and organized with a flurry of exchangeable adds you can swap out with the different marketing cards that you make for that particular panel of the cover.
If you are looking for a hard tonneau cover that literally does it all, the BakFlip G2 is it. From sleek contemporary styling to state of the art function, BakFlip G2 hard tonneau covers are sure to impress the most ardent critics. Made from tough, aluminum panels, BakFlip G2 hard tonneau covers offer fantastic security, operate easily from either side of the truck, handle any kind of climate, provide full access to stake pockets and most importantly, offer 100% unobstructed access to your entire truck bed. Hauling large items in your truck is never a problem. The ability to lock and load is finally an option with the patented features that only BakFlip hard tonneau covers can offer. No other hard tonneau covers in the world can do what a BakFlip tonneau cover can, and for the modest price of these phenomenal hard tonneau covers, there’s really little that anyone can think of that the BakFlip G2 doesn’t offer. Put a BakFlip G2 hard folding tonneau cover on your truck and join the thousands of folks that have made this incredible product the number 1 selling folding truck bed cover in the world!
TECHINICAL SPECS OF BAKFLIP G2 TONNEAU COVER:
Panel exterior:
Aluminum
Panel core:
EPS (insulated)
Panel frames:
Aircraft grade aluminum / black powder coat
Finish:
Hair cell texture
Thickness:
1/2 inch (OD)
Hinge:
Corrosion proof EPDM rubber
Weight rating:
300 LBS. – evenly distributed
Size of box:
68x23x8 (inches)
Weight of box:
55 LBS
Install tools:
1 x 15mm wrench
Maintenance:
Wash normally with soap and water / 3M formula 303 UV protection.
Warranty:
1 year
Intermittent locking positions.
Drive with the BakFlip G2 tonneau cover fully or partially open.
Integrated drainage system built into the rails.
No drill installation.
Removes in seconds.
Allows full access to stake pockets.
Works with 5th wheel hitches.
Works with bedliners and bed extenders.
Panels Latch automatically.
Lock tailgate for absolute security.
Graham Solutions
www.cargocatch.com
805-633-1235
Call us today for a free quote and tech support for your BAKflip~!
Taking the bus (local transit) in Paraguay is a crazy and funfilled ride. I learn something new every time I take the bus here. It costs about 40c to take the bus, wherever you´re going.
If you take the bus at night, you´re asking for trouble. Banditos frequent the streets and where there are buses, bus drivers and patrons, there is money. However, sometimes I have no choice, I have to take the bus at night, especially now that it´s winter here south of the equator and it gets dark early. So, I keep my brother´s trusty iron dragon bottle opener in my fist, just in case I need to crack somebody´s face open, but most of these cowards steer clear of me because I look like a crazy American who won´t put up with this sort of child´s play. You see them, eyeing people´s stuff, giving you dirty looks, and if they don´t see a tasty victim, they bolt. Most of the banditos will try to sneak your bag, without violence. And when there´s a bus full of people and you´re standing up holding on to a rail, it can be easily done. Most of them can´t afford to buy guns, so they carry knives. And if they do have a gun, if may not even be loaded. Most criminals here don´t want to kill you, they just want your stuff. They typically prey on old women or women with babies, easy targets. Your chances of getting robbed are greater in LA than in Paraguay. One article I read written by another anthropologist in 2000 stated that statistically your chances are far greater of getting murdered or robbed in the US and that Paraguay actually has one of the lowest numbers when it comes to robberies or murders per capita. The US has one of the highest, so, you decide. I would rather walk down a barrio in Asuncion than down an alley in Watts or Compton.
Aside from the danger on the bus, it can be a great time. Not only is the bus a mode of transporation locally, it´s also a moving supermarket and a concert hall. Many street vendors hop on and off the bus regularly. They sell everything you can think of. Cold drinks, fruit, veges, t-shirts, socks, toothbrushes, chipa (cheese bread), chocolate and yes, live music. I couldn´t believe it when these two guys got on the bus and just started jamming. They introduced themselves, tuned their strings, hung with us for about 20 minutes, jammed and screamed Paraguayan tunes at the top of their lungs. They asked for donations to buy more strings for their beaten up guitars. I gave them one thousand guaranias (about 20c), which in value for them is about a buck. I think out of about 40 people, maybe 2 or 3 people gave them something. Their voices were great and apparently they do parties and private events, so weŕe going to hire them when we have our house warming party in a couple months and we have security set up.
Each driver of the bus adorns his ride with exterior paint if he can and he´ll dial in the interior with photos of his family, short curtains, colors of all kinds, and even will have his own little store at the front in the driver´s area. And if he´s lucky and his wife has the day off, she´ll ride in the front with him. You´ll also notice that every driver has his own thermos with cold water and a cup of cold herbs (yerba mate or terere as it´s called) and a special straw. Everybody in Paraguay drinks Yerba (a special mix of forest herbs), developed by the Guarani Indians long ago. This stuff cleans out your system and is very good for you. It´s also a very mild stimulant, some of the blends.
When you step on the bus, you better hold on, cause these guys will not wait for you. Once your second foot hits the first step, they gun it. Every once in a while, an old person will lose their step, it´s a bit sad, but they don´t complain, they´re used to it. And when you get off, you better get off quick and get the hell off the street.
Your truck is loaded with rock, gravel, bark, wood chippings or whatever you use your truck for to haul. You’re a gardener, a construction worker, or just a backyard junkie. You get to your destination, you get out of your truck, then you think to yourself “How the hell am I going to get this crap out of the back of the truck?”. You don’t want to do it because you just ate lunch before returning to the dump site. You’re tired, full and all you want is to crack a Spaten and call it a day. You think about asking your neighbors kid to shovel out the load, but you don’t want to kick down the cash. So, you mosey on in to the garage, bummed, not looking forward to the upcoming backbreaking job ahead of you. What a nightmare.
Well guess what folks? We have an easy answer to all of your shoveling woes. The LoadHandler, by LoadHandler of Libertyville, IL. What a concept and what a great product. It only costs about the same as the kid next door would demand on a Friday night for this kind of job if he’s going to miss his rave, and it’s easy as pie to mount, use and remove.
The LH3000 fits any Full-Size pickup (excluding step-sides and Toyota T-100 & Tundra 2006 & older), and is especially suited for 3/4-ton and 1-ton pickups. Perfect for commercial applications. Also frequently adapted for use on trailer, but modifications by consumer may be required.
The LH3000 works the same as the LH2000 but is substantially “beefier” with steel brackets and buckles, factory-installed sealed ball-bearings, a heavy-duty “drive-dog” housing for handle insertion, and solid-steel ends on the Roller Bar. The dragsheet is the same ripstop Polypropylene weave as on the LH2000, but 2 inches wider.
Spare yourself the backbreaking work of unloading rock, gravel, firewood, sand, trash, mulch, dirt, yard waste, equipment, hay bales, feed bags, manure, roofing shingles, furniture or anything else you may haul in your pickup. Finish jobs faster with LOADHANDLER®.
Padded brackets and tie down straps secure the LOADHANDLER® to any tailgate — installs or removes in about a minute.
The LOADHANDLER® consists of a heavy-gauge poly fabric rolled onto a steel bar that runs the length of the tailgate. To load, just unroll the dragsheet to cover your truck bed. To unload, lower the tailgate, insert the crank handle into the end of the roller bar and rewind the dragsheet.
The LOADHANDLER® unloads your cargo in as little as 30 seconds.
Questions? Give us a buzz or just buy one online and we’ll call you to verify truck, make, model and application. Now you can breathe!
The CargoCatch by Graham Solutions is the most innovative pickup truck cargo holder in the automotive aftermarket and is on its way back to you after experiencing poor marketing by Pilot Automotive, the company who originally licensed the patent.
You’ll see trucks driving down the freeway, or parked on the side of the road, with a complete mess in the bed of their truck, typically ropes or bungee cords all tangled up. You take a second look, and say to yourself “What a mess”. Not only did we experience this ourselves with our Toyota Tundra, we decided to do something about it. Some other companies sell cheap similar designs that just don’t hold up under pressure. They use 3M tape or you can drill holes in your truck. There had to be a better solution.
So, one day while watching a San Diego Padres game in his apartment in San Diego, Bill Graham started sketching a design that would ultimately become a reality. He started off at good old Home Depot, purchased some grommets and a couple of adjustable shower rods and off he went back home. He noticed the top rails of the truck bed were rarely used for anything and ended up designing a new sort of technology using UHMWPE (Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene) tooled properly in conjunction with a heavy duty carriage bolt and a fat wingnut and hard rubber end piece that grabs the side rail under pressure.
Several months later, after about 20 prototypes, Bill worked with Wayne Lundberg of the SBDITC (Small Business Development & International Trade Center), a retired engineer who loved to tweak stuff in his shop and the two of them came up with the “Leveling Screw Jack”, now used with the CargoCatch to stabilize the rods on the truck’s rail on either side.
CargoCatch is now under new license with a smaller niche company out of Libertyville, IL named Load Handler who also specializes in cargo management for pickup trucks. Load Handler and Graham are currently working with Chinese engineers to change the design slightly and late summer the unit will be available for full size pick up trucks only with bed widths of 62″ or greater.
If you’d like more information on the CargoCatch, or have questions regarding your truck, please contact us. We’re also taking backorders at this time. The CargoCatch can be popped in and out of the truck within 10 seconds.
Recently Graham Solutions, premier designer and manufacturer of custom cargo nets, was contacted by Revcom/Alsocup of Corona, CA to quote a bunch of custom designed mesh cargo nets to help clean up the oil on the beaches and waterways near the Gulf of Mexico states.
As the government and BP continue to lag on this issue, we’ve discovered something very interesting. This company Revcom who is currently working on generating a quote for the EPA, Fish and Game, Oil Clean-up crews and the Federal Government, has a solution using polymer pellets which have, through many studies, proven extremely effective for cleaning up oil by absorbing the oil and creating great big pancakes of oil and polymer which can be quickly disposed of and/or recycled. Watch video below to see how this product works.
The thing we found interesting was that the companies or organizations that are responsible for cleaning up the oil, or who are normally contracted to do so, do not like to use these polymer pellets. Why? Because it reduces their billable hours by up to 75% according to Dave Naylor of Revcom/Alsocup. When we heard this we couldn’t believe it. While animals, birds and other sea life are dying by the thousands and the waters are being polluted, not to mention all the money it’s costing our fishing, other industries and our economy for crying out loud, these people are worried about making money off it. This is a scandal that needs to be known to the public. And we fear that this scandalous activity goes much deeper than just the clean-up crews.
So, what is our role in this with regard to making custom cargo mesh nets? Well, it’s really very simple. While these cleaning crews walk around with shovels scooping up oil, they could be tossing many of the mesh pillows that we could sew, filled with the polymer pellets, on the beaches, shallow waters, marshes, etc…to be retrieved easily later, then to be recycled and used again. This would save an enormous amount of time and money. We can also construct a ‘curtain’ type of mesh net containing pellet holding cells that would be hung from the booms of boats or toss the pillows into a shrimp boat ‘scooper’ which would slowly drag these curtains filled with the polymer pellet along the water surface in the open ocean and marshes, etc…
Why is this not being done already? We are seriously disturbed by the quality and time of response from our government and these other organizations. We hope you watch the video below and maybe speak out about it!
Graham Solutions is a manufacturer and reseller of high quality custom made automotive aftermarket accessories and custom cargo nets of all kinds designed for military, government, aviation, marine and transport industries.
Helps plant the rear tires, reduce wheel hop, and reduce 60’ times
Direct fit shocks that are engineered for drag strip performance
90/10 front shocks are recommended for maximum weight transfer with limited or no street use
70/30 front shocks can be used for street strip vehicles
Rear shocks feature 50/50 valving for versatile street strip performance
Twin tube body with a chrome plated piston rod for maximum seal life
Mr. Gasket Automatic Transmission Oil Pan Gasket
Part # 8687G
Manufactured from high-temperature silicone blend rubber
Conforms easily to uneven surfaces and allows superior sealing without deteriorating or cracking under excessive heat and pressure
For OE replacement, high-performance street and drag racing
Mr. Gasket Exhaust Gaskets
Part # 7594
Manufactured from high-temperature graphite facing/steel core exhaust material
Expanded steel core provides stability and maximum torque retention
Graphite facing provides excellent heat resistance and thermal conductivity to transfer heat away from cylinder head
Conforms to and seals minor surface irregularities
Mr. Gasket Header Bolts
Part # 978G
Designed for quick, easy installation and removal
Compact socket head design is ideal for use where space is minimal,
Black oxide bolts resist corrosion and provide a clean professional appearance
Five legendary brands in the performance automotive aftermarket industry, Mr. Gasket, Mallory, ACCEL, Lakewood and Hays have come together to amp up the performance of late model muscle cars including the Dodge Challenger, Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro like never before. The Modern Muscle X Team has a mission: develop countless products that cross these key brands to make these modern muscle cars have enhanced performance, more power and more control.
Graham Solutions is in the process of adding these and tens of thousands of new products to our auto aftermarket website. We’ve got it all. Give us a buzz for the guaranteed lowest price on any product.
Manufactured from Viton rubber coated stainless steel layers
Stress formed embossments seal extreme cylinder pressure
Provides excellent stability and reduces cylinder bore distortion
For high performance street, drag race, and oval track
Mr. Gasket Ultra-Seal Exhaust Gaskets
Part # 5966
Manufactured from high-temperature graphite facing /steel core exhaust material
Expanded steel core provides stability and maximum torque retention
Graphite facing provides excellent heat resistance and thermal conductivity to transfer heat away from cylinder head
Conforms to and seals minor surface irregularities
Five legendary brands in the performance automotive aftermarket industry, Mr. Gasket, Mallory, ACCEL, Lakewood and Hays have come together to amp up the performance of late model muscle cars including the Dodge Challenger, Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro like never before. The Modern Muscle X Team has a mission: develop countless products that cross these key brands to make these modern muscle cars have enhanced performance, more power and more control.
Neep help getting parts for your Camaro? Give us a call today, we’ve got it all even if you don’t see it on our site. And we guarantee the best possible price and downright low shipping charges.
I received your letter(s) regarding your services and ‘automotive products’.
We receive these product suggestions and others on a regular basis and we try to communicate our thoughts when possible given that our company is a product development company, in various ways.
In short:
1. We only work with inventors/product developers who are interested in selling their products immediately after production via our company or other, and auto industry, especially via internet and other major distribution channels. In cases where inventors/product developers are already working with who would be in any subsequent licensing agreement a “3rd party”, we do not approach these inventors at all specifically because of that relationship which causes issues in the licensing agreements. We have found throughout years of research as product developers ourselves, that in more cases than not, the individual inventors benefit more via selling the products themselves before going to licensing.
2. We do work with inventors who work with us directly, without a 3rd party. This way they hire us for serious automotive product licensing consulting direct from a company already working deeply in the auto aftermarket and selling products in that industry and others.
3. Since we do have interest in ‘automotive products’, we would however be more than willing to market the product on our website www.cargocatch.com and thousands of others immediately through drop-ship network we have, if you have the product in a box, and you’re drop shipping individual pieces from your warehouse. After you’ve got the product in a box, contact us for drop shipping it via internet. As your first dealer or not we will not require you to sign any contract or pay any fee, we make money off selling your product already in a box and if you need marketing or other consulting, including licensing, we have all the contacts in the industry related to cargo management who are looking at new products because we are selling other products of theirs and licensing directly to them some of our products.
We look forward to hopefully selling ’automotive products’ in the future. Please contact us at your convenience and good luck!
Custom cargo nets are becoming more and more popular with all industries including military, government, aviation, marine, beverage & food, transportation, trucking and especially pickup trucks. The laws are a changin’ and becoming more and more stringent when it comes to saving people’s lives and their cargo.
We design and manufacture, right here in the USA, cargo nets of all sizes, colors and strengths. Don’t be shy to tell us exactly what you need for your cargo restraint needs, for whatever application. We’ve done it all and we can do it all. We’ve only posted a few of the nets on our site that we make. We’ll be posting a ton more as time allows over the next several months and will post every net we make, so you can have the bigger selection and ideas to choose from.
Typically, we use 2″ heavy duty webbing that has a breaking strength of 6K lbs and a working load limit of 3K lbs, but we can go a lot higher. As far as hardware is concerned, we can use whatever you want, wherever you want. Your straps don’t necessarily have to be attached to the corners or the sides, they can be coming from inside of the net, so keep that in mind.
We offer free engineering drawings for all nets and will always send you a drawing via email prior to constructing your custom cargo net. And if you don’t like the drawing or would like to make changes, we can edit it for you quickly and send you a final draft until you are satisfied. We don’t even need a drawing from you to get it rollin’. All we need for you to do is speak with one of our engineers, and he or she will walk you through the process and design the net for you. It’s really that simple. You tell us what you need it for and how you’d like it, and we’ll take care of the rest.
We offer 1″, 1.5″ and 2″ heavy duty web strapping and a candy store full of hardware to choose from. Colors include Black, Blue, Red, Green, Yellow and Orange
Have questions or need a custom cargo net made? Give us a call today or send us an email. We’d love to design your net and always find it interesting the designs we receive.
My dog Duke drinks a ton of water. When we head out for a road trip, I always put a small bowl in the cab of my truck on a towel so he’ll have a drink if he wants it. I usually fill the bowl up with ice and then fill it with water about three quarters of the way up. The ice keeps the water from spilling, most of the time. But sometimes we’ll hit a bump in the road or go onto a dirt trail, and the ice just doesn’t cut it.
Now, I don’t have to worry about this anymore.
This new dog bowl for vehicles is worth mentioning. Especially made for travel, the WaterBoy is designed specifically not to splash or spill. It’s unique design keeps water in and keeps it from spilling out. Reason for this is that it keeps the water level down inside the bowl and water base.
Holds up to 3 quarts and is small enough so that it only uses a small area of the cab or back seat. No towel or ice needed, but I still put ice in there because dogs normally drink more water if it’s really cold. So do I!
Got a question or want to buy a bunch of these for your retail store? Just give us a call or email us and we’ll quote you.
