Visibility flags on front rack

I guess I should not have used the word "flags" (but that is what we always called them on the corners of snow plows. No I am not putting big cloth flags on the front of my truck, just markers that I can see. Like thos 1/4" poles to mark driveways for snowplows, or the polls we used to bolt to the corners of snow plows.

A pair of short fiberglass CB antennas, on 3/8" quick release stud mounts, will allow you to remove the antennas quickly, while also being quite secure when they are on. A thick, stiff Firestik type antenna will stand up in the wind better than the skinny ones.

I had to do the same thing to the back of my cargo carrier.

Wasn't me forgetting it was there. It was the people who pulled up behind me at stop lights and 'then' forgot the carrier was there because they couldn't see it once they pulled up behind me and then they would move up and hit it.:R

I used the

red rigid driveway markers

. Look for the ones with a flat or four sided pole. They stay put better no matter how you attached them.

I then spray painted the pole black so it didn't look so tacky. Even took a brush and painted the trim around the reflector black too. And just left them on.

BTW: When parked at CG's, before I put the reflector poles on it everyone was walking smashing their shins into it including myself.



And get a roll of this and put it on the sides so at night it can be seen.

The clamps used for kids bicycle flags would work. More expensive would be quick disconnect air fittings or off-road vehicle flag mounts.

FLags... bad. The flapping in the wind will destroy them, and the flapping in the wind will be a huge distraction while driving.

Home Depot sells driveway marker poles that are orange fiberglass with reflective tape on the top. They should be down the aisle where the rope and chain is.

They are commonly used in the winter months, where it snows, to mark locations of things you don't want to tear up with the snow plow, things that the snow hides.

I've never done it but, why not hose clamp short pieces of 3/4" PVC to the front corners. Then insert longer pieces of 1/2" PVC.
It's quick and cheap. If they get lost or broken, it won't be a big deal to replace them.

Or you can use dowels in the correct diameter in place of the 1/2" PVC.

Just hose clamp the longer 1/2" PVC to the rack?