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The best way to add value to your semi-trailer truck is to accessorize it. While these words may seem like a sales pitch by an accessory dealer, the fact is that often the first thing noticed by a potential customer for a trucker's services is his equipment. If the truck, or the whole fleet for that matter, looks well kept and attractive, the impression of that business is positive. This is true for a tow operator, fruit and produce distributor, over-the-road hauler, even sanitation pick-up and septic tank services.
Pride in a job well done and concern for customer service is reflected in the way a big rig is maintained. This can accomplished with a simple but well thought out paint job, and can go to the extreme with elaborate lighting and chrome accessories. For example, semi truck wheels can be simply painted and decorated with lug nut covers, or they can be covered with a variety of wheel accessories like axle covers or complete stainless simulators. A more expensive choice would be aluminum wheels with stainless axle covers and lug nut covers.
Increase Safety and Looks with LED Lights
Lighting is another method of displaying pride in your ride. Besides adding to the safety factor, today's LED lights use a minimum of amperage and deliver a big wallop. A trucker can use ten times the number of lights than in past years, and yet not draw any more power from the battery. LED lights are available in a large variety of styles and colors, and can be installed in unusual places on the vehicle - in wheel wells, in the grille, on a visor and in air breathers.
Big Rig Accessories Make Long Hours Behind the Wheel Enjoyable
Other standard equipment - fenders, bumpers, tool boxes, exhaust pipes, mud flaps - can be left in stock condition, but are often seen in chrome and stainless. These all contribute to a fine public image of your truck. Interior accessories, while not necessarily visible to the public, also give a sense of pride of ownership and make the long hours spent in the cab more pleasant. For example, there are dashboard accessories, designer steering wheels and gear shift knobs. Chrome and stainless accessories are available for most semi truck models, and custom items can often be fabricated. In all, these items add a touch of class to any big rig!
Michael Chase is a freelance writer for VirgoFleet.com. Virgo Fleet specializes in semi truck accessories including the widest assortment of big rig accessories on the Internet. Virgo Fleet is the top retailer for custom chrome bumpers, cb radios, air horns and many other quality truck parts.
How to Make Sure You Never Put Petrol in Your Diesel
The AA and BIBA (British Insurance Brokers Association) have both claimed that there are in excess of 150,000 misfuelling incidents each year where motorists with a momentary lapse of concentration mistakenly put petrol into the tanks of their diesel cars.
The cost of an individual misfuelling event can range from £300 for a simple fuel drain and refill to more than £5,000 if the car is driven any distance and a new engine is required. The car rental comparison site, carentals.co.uk, estimated that the total cost of misfuelling in the UK reaches £800million each year.
The growth in fuel drain services is testament to the scale of the problem. Both the AA and RAC have their own dedicated fleets of fuel drain engineers; Nationwide/Halfords Autocentres have announced 200+ repair locations across the UK; beyond that there is an army of smaller fuel drain businesses cropping up almost daily. The problem here is that once a vehicle has been misfuelled lasting damage may have already occurred.
Intriguingly, misfuelling is almost entirely avoidable. A number of car manufacturers have started to fit misfuelling prevention devices to their vehicles at the factory, which is progress. However, the lead times between development and integration mean that more widespread manufacturer led prevention devices are still several years away.
Prevention is Better than Cure
There are a five or six retrofit misfuelling prevention devices available which work in a number of different ways. Some provide an audible warning that the vehicle uses diesel; another requires a two-handed operation, one to test the nozzle size, the other to remove the cap; the remainder work on the basis that only a nozzle the exact size of a diesel pump nozzle can be inserted.
One of the major issues with the retrofit market is that not all of these products have been properly tested by the independent vehicle testing agencies like MIRA and Thatcham and not all of them have valid VCA certificates. As a result individuals who use the untested and formally accredited products run several risks that may not be initially apparent. These products are fitted into the fuel tanks of cars and vans; as such fitting one without the necessary testing certificates is likely to invalidate insurance policies and may significantly increase safety risks.
Tests constructed by Thatcham and MIRA to ensure misfuelling devices are fit for purpose include:
- Rollover tests, which ensure that if a car rolls over, there is only a limited release of fuel. A fuel filler cap requires a breather to avoid vacuums in the tank so there is a fine balance required here;
- Flow tests to ensure that fuel flow from the pump is not inhibited;
- Blowback tests make sure that you don't end up with diesel on you or your clothes instead of it going into the tank;
- Insertion tests - a nozzle is inserted and withdrawn over 5,000 times designed to provide assurance that the device will not break or wear out;
- Electrostatic discharge - use of proper, more expensive materials, helps to dissipate any potential electrostatic build up. Failure to deal with this can lead to exploding fuel tanks, a problem BMW identified when the new Mini One was released.
Fitting aftermarket caps to your fuel tank should not be a decision taken without proper research. There is one stand-out retrofit misfuelling prevention device that has passed all of the above tests by MIRA and received the coveted Thatcham Accreditation as well as a VCA Certificate - the Diesel Key. No other product has proven its ability to meet these stringent test criteria. The Diesel Key is quick and easy to fit and has been designed to fit 90% of modern diesel vehicles giving the user the necessary safety assurances in the process. This is why the Diesel Key is fast becoming the misfuelling prevention device of choice by fleet managers and the UK emergency services.
Nick Panchaud is the CEO of Diesel Key Ltd a company committed to the prevention of misfuelling and all the associated financial and environmental waste.
Misfuelling is almost entirely avoidable. Visit http://www.diesel-key.com/ for more information on how you can be sure to avoid the risks and uncertainty when you are refuelling.
"I run a mobile tyre service business. We employ several young lads to do the fittings. Over the years we've had petrol put in the diesel many times. Its easily done because most of them drive small hatchbacks that are nearly always petrol. To sort out the problem we fitted diesel keys to all our vans and we haven't had a problem since. Thanks guys. All the best." Jerry
About the Author
Nick Panchaud is the CEO of Diesel Key Ltd a company committed to the prevention of misfuelling and all the associated financial and environmental waste.
Misfuelling is almost entirely avoidable. Visit http://www.diesel-key.com/ for more information on how you can be sure to avoid the risks and uncertainty when you are refuelling.
"I run a mobile tyre service business. We employ several young lads to do the fittings. Over the years we've had petrol put in the diesel many times. Its easily done because most of them drive small hatchbacks that are nearly always petrol. To sort out the problem we fitted diesel keys to all our vans and we haven't had a problem since. Thanks guys. All the best." Jerry
Mini Aquatic frogs in a 20 gallon tank? ?
I have two mini aquatic frogs that we have had for 2 years and they have lived in this itty bitty tank that probably isn't even a gallon! We got them in that as a Christmas present from my aunt and she got them from Brookstone apparently. We just set up a 20 gallon fish tank and have some fish in there now..Im worried because they are air breathers and I don't know if they will be okay or not! Will the mini frogs be okay in that big tank?
-Thank you so much! 
it is absolutely shocking you were able to keep them alive in a quarter gallon of water for so long ... those brookstone frog-o-spheres are no longer allowed to be sold as they were deemed cruel ... you can put those frogs in 20 gallons ... i had many for several years in a 30 gallon tank which is the absolute largest they should be kept in ...
100 festive days out
South and South-East: Holidays on ice – see the South's historic houses sparkle Every day this week, you can experience the traditions of Christmas past at the (1) Weald & Downland Museum near Chichester.
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