Jeeps Trucks and Guitars

[YooperMichigan]

Hey Folks,

 

I've got an old Jeep ... I've got an old Jeep ... but it's a great Jeep ... and it'll be a sad day when it comes time to replace it ... but I've often thought I would like a truck ... but I have concerns about transporting my guitar in the back of a truck ... cold ... hot ect.  Any thoughts on this??

[Doug Lindhout]

I have a truck that has hauled instruments around many a time. The truck has a back seat, so if security and temperature control are really important, all the stuff goes into the cab.  If it is a short haul or I am headed directly to the place where the instruments come out, they may go into the bed.  It has a rubber floor liner, a cap, and I use one of those cargo bars to keep everything from wandering up to the front of the bed when I hit the brakes.  I can open/close vents on the cap as necessary.  All in all, not a bad way to go.

Come to think of it, we played a gig last week.  I drove separately, but our banjo player hauled everything in the back of his truck, and I think the temp was between 10F and 15F that day.  Everything survived nicely.

[YooperMichigan]

Thanks Doug ...

 

I was wondering ... from anybody ... what a min temp (or Max) might be for transporting an instrument?

 

Thanks all

[mike emm]

Hey Yooper...if you replace the Jeep with a pickup...make sure the truck is an extended cab and carry the guitar in the cab. A single seat truck makes it very tight to fit 2 people with 2 axes (DAMHIKT).  Placing the guitar in the truck bed would be courting disaster out here in sunny Calif. My $.02

[YooperMichigan]

Right!  I like the extended cab ... I think that the truck bed would be courting disaster here in the upper midwest as well ... in the winter though.

 

Thanks