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.
After a ton of requests and the simple demand for a better site, the need for fewer customer clicks to reach their product destination and the fact that we finally found a web development company we can count on and trust, Graham Solutions has just released their new skin for www.cargocatch.com, a truck and auto accessory monster that is growing by the day.
Created by Bill Graham and designed by ASF Design of Canada, we are very proud of our new site. Though we have not created our new blog design yet which will enable customers to read about new truck accessory products and services we offer, we have launched the new “skin”, including all new products for truck cargo accessories and related vehicle products and services.
Not only do our customers now know that we sell truck accessories, as opposed to before when you didn’t know what the heck we did because our company is so diverse, they now can easily reach the products they’re looking for in fewer clicks, as well as view multiple detailed images of products, and video of many of the products we feature at the bottom of the product detail page.
The diversity and evolution of our company has lead us to this current site. About 10 years ago, Bill Graham developed a cargo management product for pickup trucks call ‘CargoCatch’ to hold groceries and other small cargo items in the rear of his pickup truck bed. This product was originally licensed to Bully Motorsports and offered in 2 sizes as ‘Pac Mule’, but their marketing was short of aggressive, and now is being re-designed by Graham and Load Handler of Chicago, to be released early this summer as ‘CargoCatch’, including a new ‘handcrank’ option for easier mounting. Load Handler is a smaller niche company and has a more aggressive marketing plan for ‘CargoCatch’.
Shortly thereafter, Graham began small manufacturing of the product in San Diego, California and Mexico. It was an evolution of grand proportions that he had no idea he would take on, eventually becoming one of the premier internet based resellers of truck cargo nets and other truck accessories, as well as many other accessories for many different types of vehicles including cars, boats, RV’s, SUV’s, ATV’s, Motorcycles and UTV’s.
We hope you take the opportunity to visit our new site and check out some of the videos, particularly those of Diamondback ATV products, which are the hottest new truck cover ATV based products available today.
Graham Solutions also offers contract sewing services in San Diego, California and Tecate, Mexico for multiple products, as well as the design and manufacture of heavy duty pickup truck cargo nets and more, Made in the USA. In addition, if you’re an inventor, product developer or entrepreneur, we can assist you with business start-up consulting, website development, sampling and prototyping of many products from a variety of industries including auto, aviation, marine, military and government.
We look forward to serving you. Call us for a quote on any of our products and services.
This new heavy duty cargo net by Graham Solutions is no joke. This is guaranteed to be the strongest cargo net available on the market today for your full size long bed truck. It is Made in the USA of the highest quality, toughest materials available. We have searched far and wide for the best craftsmanship in the country, and we found it. This net is specifically designed for guys who beat the living crap out of their trucks. It is also designed for extra large and/or tall loads. No net in the USA can match is strength, durability or craftmanship. We guarantee it. Check out the specs on this sucker, the construction we’ve implemented on this custom cargo net is stronger than the hardware used:
84″ x 62″ – from corner to corner of net, extra wide/long/tall
Graham Solutions has a full schedule for 2010.Among the laundry list of activities happening here is our grand opening in South America.Graham Solutions has tapped a new market in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay. Most if not all of these countries have a desperate need for some of the truck accessories we offer and more.Not to mention the fact that many American manufacturers of automotive aftermarket accessories are seeking distribution in the Southern Hemisphere and we intend to be a part of the action.Part of the reason we’re exploring South America is because of the increase in the implementation of infrastructure in many of these countries and the opportunities that that alone brings due to internet connection improvements.Products in demand there include ATV’s and related products as well as many truck cargo management accessories.After we’re settled there, we’ll be donating a percentage of sales to help preserve the environment.So watch out for our update as things move forward.Our office currently in Temecula, California will be moving to Ventura County, California in or around March of 2010.Our contact information changes will be updated on the site as well as with industry specific organizations such as SEMA and other vendors, so if you have trouble reaching us, you can always refer to the site, as the new number will be posted.Our website www.cargocatch.com will be undergoing a major upgrade in early 2010.We will be retrofitting the site for easier navigation, product specials, video, live chat and more.In addition, our newsletter will be updated and posted monthly once the new site is running smoothly.We will be taking on many new manufacturers and products and offering technical resources site-wide for many new products where .pdf based installation guides and video will be available for viewing.Graham Solutions is very well known for its cargo nets for all vehicles as well as its manufacturing of very high quality custom cargo nets for many applications.Some of the heavy duty nets we sell for trucks are best-sellers, and because we have so many requests for custom nets that are slightly larger than the current heavy duty pickup truck nets off the shelf that we sell, we intend to launch our new line of custom cargo nets for pickups that will basically cover square footage in the pickup beds per customer specification.That’s right, you will design your own net at a very reasonable price.Our new custom cargo nets for pickups will include heavy duty commercial grade 2” strap webbing in many colors, industrial stitching and the strongest hardware available today.Carrying a taller load?No problem.We’ll just throw in adjustable straps as long as you want to accommodate taller loads.Keep an eye out for new nets coming to this section of our site http://www.cargocatch.com/custom-cargo-nets.html .Graham Solutions is a product development company specializing in the design, development, sale and distribution of high quality truck, motorcycle and atv related products.If you have questions regarding our products and services, please email cargocatch@cargocatch.com or call the number at the top of any of our website pages. Graham Solutionswww.cargocatch.com
Graham Solutions welcomes you to our new website www.cargocatch.com, where you’ll find everything you need for many cargo management applications.
We develop, manufacture and resell high quality cargo management products, primarily for various automotive aftermarket niches. What you see now is only the beginning. We’ve researched tons of new cargo related products and can answer any questions you have on any product you don’t see here.
We’ll be adding new products and expanding our product base constantly, so if there’s something you don’t see, call us, mention the product you’re looking for, we’ll research it for you based on your vehicle, offer you a free quote, the best price available and add the product to the site if it falls in line with our product lines.
Not only do we carry a full line of cargo management products for many vehicles from pickup trucks, cars, vans, SUV’s, ATV’s, motorcycles, RV’s, and cargo trucks to cargo containers, we can custom design any type of cargo restraint product for any vehicle in per your specifications.
And we SHIP WORLDWIDE!!
We also offer product development consulting services to those of you who are interested in getting your cargo management products on the market. Give us a buzz today to find out more about our licensing and consulting programs.
Our representatives are standing by 24/7/365 to answer your questions or to help you outfit your vehicle with the newest and most popular cargo management products on the market today! If we’re out, leave us a message and we’ll get back to you asap!!
