What Essentials Should You Keep In Your Truck Toolbox In Winter?

Your truck toolbox is a crucial piece of truck equipment, especially in winter when ice and snow are likely to cause accidents, and low temperatures can cause technical difficulties. Keeping these essential items in your truck toolbox will ensure that your truck is fully equipped in the event of an accident.

Flashlight with Lithium Batteries

Flashlights can be useful all year round, but they can be even more important in winter when the days are shorter, so be sure that your truck toolbox has a flashlight inside. Of course, you may already carry a flashlight in your truck, but unfortunately, normal alkaline batteries perform badly in cold temperatures. To ensure that your flashlight will work when you need it to, replace it with a lithium battery powered flashlight instead.

Battery Backup

Truck batteries also have a way of not working as well in lower temperatures, and since turning the engine over when it's cold takes a lot more energy from your truck, this could mean that your battery won't have the juice it needs to get started on really cold mornings. Jumper cables can help with that, so be sure that you have a pair in your truck toolbox. In addition, a portable battery starter will ensure that you can jump start the battery without help from other drivers.

Blanket

Keep your blanket in a dry location away from other items in your truck toolbox that might get wet from time to time (like your snow chains). To ensure that your blanket is safe from the elements (and thus ready to use when you need it), wrap it up in a plastic bag before putting it in the toolbox.

Food, Water and Chemical Warmers

If you should get into an accident on the road this winter, you're going to want food and water while you wait for help. Protein bars and dried camping foods tend to be filling, long-lasting and compact, which makes them an excellent source of sustenance when you're in trouble on the road.

Keep in mind that your water could freeze in the toolbox. To prevent this from being a problem, store your water in containers that are less than full (to prevent them from bursting), and put chemical warmers in your toolbox (to thaw the water).

Tow Cables

If you drive a particularly treacherous stretch of road in the winter, don't forget to throw a pair of tow cables in your toolbox. This can help get you out of the ditch if you're in an accident,

For more information about how your truck toolbox could come in useful this winter, talk to a representative from your truck equipment provider like The Hitch House. He or she can answer your questions and give helpful suggestions.

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