We had no place to store our hose except one side compartment, which was better suited to store other essentials so hubby got out one of his never used oversize fishing rod rubes and wedged it into the space between the camper floor and truck bumper. The sewer drain lines hold the one end in place and the tie down holds the other with enough slack to extract the hose. Had to do a little grinding on fitting in hose ends to get them to slide into the tube but works. We have no drop down on the back of our old so this works fine and holds lots of compressed hose.