USA Flap Brand Reflective Mud Flaps
Mud flaps. Most folks probably don’t give much thought to them. They just hang there on most trucks and big rigs without any glory or fanfare. That’s all changed now. Thanks to USA Flap’s state of the art reflective bonding process, the truck has four very awesome mud flaps which shine brightly in the late night hours.
I came across the USA Flap web site while searching for good quality mud flaps for my truck. After all, I did not want rocks, mud and asphalt getting all over the shiny new paint job. I never dreamed that someone actually had a bright idea of marrying mud flaps with reflective material. This is one of the greatest ideas I’ve seen. When I contacted the company, it turns out that they do a lot more than just mud flaps. I’ll get into that later as things progress.
What’s even more amazing is that the cost to create just one set of custom flaps which are 19″ tall and 12″ is much less than you might think. To determine the cost to create a set of flaps, you first send in a copy of our artwork by email. They don’t use photoshop so I had to convert the image to a very low compression jpeg image. Since the logo has white borders, I put the artwork on a black background. I sent one file for the Maltese cross and one for the lettering. Each file was around one megabyte (hard to believe that used to be considered a large file). They create a scaled proof and sent it back for approval. It took three or four attempts, but it finally came out perfect. I left four inches at the bottom for some custom stainless steel flap weights. Once approved, it took one week and the flaps were on our doorstep.
Now all that’s left is to make some custom mounts and get them installed. Stay tuned as we wrap up the flaps.