Oh golly, I wouldn’t go two miles in that truck 
Hope you wear a helmet with your life jacket.
You might consider two PFDs while driving.
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That looks more substantial than other versions I’ve seen.
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Now that’s funny…Mjac is now the most prolific poster here…He-She needs to get a hobby other than posting here…
They are good for him because he is a minimalist 
Remember, he didn’t want my wood Greenland long paddle inside the vehicle
Some people are just obsessive about where the gear goes. I did just buy this 14.00
wood step ladder at Marshal’s for inside the house.
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Some guy that builds cars just told me that those will mess up the door latch. 
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I’m guessing the biggest hazard is someone forgets the door latch step is on there when they slam the door closed, and the door gets marked up or it bends the sheet metal.
I think it looks like a great idea, but right away I wondered whether they could affect the latch somehow. Probably not, since latches are designed to withstand unbelievable forces in crashes, but the company I work for makes door latches, so I was planning to go ask a door latch engineer tomorrow. I’ll let you know what he says.
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Don’t talk about my truck.
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I think he is right, that is a LOT of leverage on that latch, the bolts that hold it and the sheetmetal holding the bolts with a 200 lb man (or more) standing on top of it. I don’t see why ya’ll are so in love with it, such a small platform and limited reach and you can not use it to get to the truck top camper for the night because you have to leave the door open.
Say @MohaveFlyer, I was joking around with you that your dog was happy when with your husband and somebody flagged it as offensive and abusive.
Your hubs would probably be apoplectic about how i drive my box truck camper with 13’ to 17’ kayaks wedged inside. The longer ones stick through the pass-through door into the cab with their bow shoved under the dash.
With my one piece GP, the only way I can carry it inside the dinky Mazda is to slide it forward from the hatchback snugly between the passenger side seats and the doors on that side. Couldn’t go anywhere in a collision wedged in there, but any passenger has to climb over it to enter and exit so it’s kind of a pain. There was a bunch of new 3" black ABS drainpipe stuffed in the rafters of the detached garage at the new house and I’ve considered getting a couple of caps to make a carrier tube for the paddle with that to attach to the roof rack.
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Since I drove through the garage doors, forgetting they were up there, that’s a great point👍🏼
It is true though, he is, for good reason.
He is the dog UN-trainer. Good cop, bad cop.
We have a ladder, an IMPROVED ladder that has steps.
The other one was too hard on my cold feet when it was twenty degrees up in the Italian Alps.
My plan is to see if his latch gets busted before I use
It on my car. Sort of like not jumping off a
rock into the water before somebody else. I’m a free-rider.
Good Cop - Bad Cop? …One of you wants to Neuter him and the other wants him to live a happy, normal life.
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For dogs, and especially cats, neutering can lead to a better life.
Other advanced enlightened countries don’t do it so I am open to the debate. I’ve never questioned it, but now I do.
Castration changes normal male development and a minority of American veterinarians are against it.
Most veterinarians now recommend doing it later than they used to.
American dogs are dying younger and younger.
Hormones are important for more than reproduction.
“Castration changes normal male development,”…No Kidding.
I asked a latch engineer with many years of experience in the industry, including at Ford, about these steps, and he said it’s a terrible idea. (He made a face while he said this!)
He explained in more detail than I could follow just how “the striker”, which is what the silver part is called, is bolted to a backer plate behind the door frame sheet metal, and it’s designed to keep the door and the frame together as one unit as the car and the door fold, crumple, or do whatever else they need to do in a crash, but the door frame sheet metal is still just sheet metal, and the backer plate won’t keep the sheet metal from bending when someone puts their weight on the striker and the step pulls it in a weird direction. And of course once the striker is in a different position, the door won’t close smoothly.
So I am taking it out of my online shopping cart …
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