Making Positive Business Choices

When you are in the transport business, hauling loads on trailers that are attached to your vehicles with a ball hitch is just part of your everyday operation. Unfortunately, handling hitches can be a truly dirty job, and it can put employees at risk of having their hands injured when removing a trailer or hauling unit from the hitch. Investing in hitch grip tools to put in each of your hauling vehicles is a wise business investment. These tools are designed to grip the hitch head without you having to put your hands directly on the hitch at all. Take a look at some of the attributes to look for in the best hitch grip tools.

The tool offers tungsten carbide tips on the grip. 

The tips that grip onto the hitch head must be made out of durable materials, and tungsten carbide usually holds up the best out of all of the different materials that can be incorporated into these tools at the grip ends. You can often find hitch grips with steel or iron tips, which are also good, but the tungsten carbide is less likely to wear down with everyday use, so these will last your employees a lot longer. 

The tool boasts a powder-coated finish. 

These tools can be exposed to the elements a great deal during use. They may get left on the back of a truck or in a damp toolbox, and they will be consistently exposed to grease, grime, and grit. The overall body of the tool should have a good durable finish to protect it from the elements, and a powder-coated finish fits that purpose quite well. Powder-coating is an industrial finish that is basically baked in place, so it will rarely chip or crack, and it is super easy to keep clean as well. 

The tool fits standard ball hitch sizes. 

It may seem like a logical thing to look for, but there are some hitch grip carrying tools that actually are advertised as universal. In other words, the grips are designed to be adjustable so they can fit varied sizes of hitch balls. Unfortunately, universal grips often do not give you the same gripping power as a grip that is designed specifically for the standard ball hitch size that your vehicle rely on. You are far better off to look for a specific hitch grip size than to go with the universal models.