Tow Vehicle/Trailer Road Damage Protection
We are planning a trip to Alaska this year and will be traveling the Alaska Highway up and the Cassiar on the return. We will be traveling the main roads to Skagway, Haines, Valdez, Anchorage, Homer, ...
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gypsies has hit it right on the head. The only thing I do to my vehicles is to put some hardware cloth in behind the grill work to stop any road debris or large bugs from getting into the radiator or the oil/transmission coolers. I will at times put a screen over the outside of the grill instead, just for the bugs. This is one of the first things I do to all my trucks, whether a trip is planned to the north country or not.
If anyone sees some of the home made protection contraptions this summer, please take some photos so I can steal a few of them. Some where in our moves, I lost several thousand of my old slides and no longer have any of the chicken wire cages built by some of the folks. I have only seen these on north bound travelers, never on a south bound as they realize by the return trip, they are not needed and usually cause more damage rubbing on the vehicle than they prevent.
If a person is towing a vehicle behind their RV, they may want to look into some of the protection schemes available. I broke more windshields in spring time Colorado, after they had sanded (graveled) the roads all winter, than I ever did in Alaska, while living there. Just lots of debris on the highways, no matter where a person travels it seems.
If anyone sees some of the home made protection contraptions this summer, please take some photos so I can steal a few of them. Some where in our moves, I lost several thousand of my old slides and no longer have any of the chicken wire cages built by some of the folks. I have only seen these on north bound travelers, never on a south bound as they realize by the return trip, they are not needed and usually cause more damage rubbing on the vehicle than they prevent.
If a person is towing a vehicle behind their RV, they may want to look into some of the protection schemes available. I broke more windshields in spring time Colorado, after they had sanded (graveled) the roads all winter, than I ever did in Alaska, while living there. Just lots of debris on the highways, no matter where a person travels it seems.
