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 Mud flaps are designed to keep debris from the tires or road from flying up on the vehicle behind you and from impeding the spray effect encountered on wet roads. Most states have laws regarding the use of mud flaps and stiff penalties for
non-compliance.
The Slip Flap releasing mud flap hanger will help you and your driver minimize liability claims and avoid fines because the mud flap can be re-attached where you lose it. There is no reason that you should travel the roadway without a mud flap.
If you are cited for a missing or improper mud flap:
- You could be put out of service on the spot, requiring a service call out costing between $125 and $200.
- You could receive a fine ranging from $100 to $250.
- You will lose the revenue that could have been earned while you are waiting for service or driving to a
repair facility.
- You will lose time off for court.
 Because losing mud flaps is a major problem, many owners or drivers opt to attach mud flaps so far from the surface that they are illegal or choose to run without them. This is a DOT citation and an insurance claim waiting to happen. Until now, many have found these consequences preferable to the high cost of replacing mud flaps. You do not have to make that choice. Our releasing mud flap hanger allows you to replace the same mud flap and be back on the road in less than a minute. With Slip Flap you can run legal and safe and never again incur the cost and frustration of replacing a mud flap.
The Slip Flap releasing mud flap hanger was designed for truck drivers by truck drivers.
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5577.11 Wheel protectors.
- No person shall drive or operate, or cause to be driven or operated, any
commercial car, trailer, or semi trailer, used for the transportation of goods
or property, the gross weight of which, with load, exceeds three tons, upon
the public highways, streets, bridges, and culverts within this state, unless
such vehicle is equipped with suitable metal protectors or substantial
flexible flaps on the rearmost wheels of such vehicle or combination of
vehicles to prevent, as far as practicable, the wheels from throwing dirt,
water, or other materials on the windshields of following vehicles. Such
protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of not more than one third of the distance from the center of the rearmost axle to the center of the flaps under any conditions of loading of the vehicle, and they shall be at least as wide as the tires they are protecting. If the vehicle is so designed and constructed that such requirements are accomplished by means of fenders, body construction, or other means of enclosure, then no such protectors or flaps are required. Rear wheels not covered at the top by fenders, bodies, or other parts of the vehicle shall be covered at the top by protective means extending at least to the center line of the rearmost axle.
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MCA 61-9-407. Fenders, splash aprons, or flaps required on certain vehicles -- dimension and location. (1) A person may not move, or permit to be moved, a vehicle, except a motorcycle, quadricycle, motor-driven cycle, or farm tractor, as defined in this title, upon the public highways without having first equipped the rearmost wheels or set of wheels of the vehicle with fenders, splash aprons, or flaps. The fenders, splash aprons, or flaps must be designed, constructed, and attached to the vehicle in a manner that arrests and deflects dirt, mud, water, rocks, and other substances that may be picked up by the rear wheels of the vehicle and thrown into the air, as follows:
- If the vehicle is equipped with fenders, the fenders must extend in full width from a point above and forward of the center of the tire or tires over and to the rear of the tires.
- If the vehicle is equipped with splash aprons or flaps, the splash aprons or flaps must extend downward in full width from a point not lower than halfway between the center of the tire or tires and the top of the tire or tires and to the rear of the tires.
- If the vehicle is in excess of 8,000 pounds gross vehicle weight or rating, the fenders, splash aprons, or flaps must extend downward to a point that is not more than 10 inches above the surface of the highway when the vehicle is empty.
- If the vehicle is 8,000 pounds or less gross vehicle weight or rating, the fenders, splash aprons, or flaps must extend downward to a point that is not more than 20 inches above the surface of the highway when the vehicle is empty.
- Fenders, splash aprons, or flaps, as used in subsection (1), must be constructed as follows:
- when measured on the cross-sections of the tread of the wheel or on the combined cross-sections of the treads of multiple wheels, the fender, splash apron, or flap extends at least to each side of the width of the tire or of the combined width of the multiple tires; and
- the fender, splash apron, or flap is capable at all times of arresting and deflecting dirt, mud, water, or other substance that may be picked up and carried by the wheel or wheels.
- This section does not apply to a street rod as defined in 61-1-101, motor vehicles not originally equipped with fenders, splash aprons, or flaps, or motor vehicles for which fenders, splash aprons, or flaps were not required by federal law or regulation at the time of manufacture.
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Saf-C 3226.03 Tire Flaps: Guards.
- Pursuant to RSA 266:57, all trucks and buses shall have flaps or guards, whether homemade or manufactured.
- A truck or bus shall be rejected if any flap or guard:
- Is missing or does not function properly;
- Contains reflectors or reflectorized materials which do not comply with the laws and rules governing reflectors;
- Does not consist of metal protectors or flexible flaps strong enough to prevent stones or objects being thrown through them;
- Is not as wide as the tire it is designed to protect; or
- Is not positioned at a height which prevents the throw, splash, spray of water, dirt or other matter upward or to the rear of the vehicle.
266:57 Flaps; Guards. – Every vehicle operated in or upon any way, when not equipped with proper fenders to prevent the throw, spray, or splash of water, dirt, or other matter, shall be equipped with suitable fender guards or flaps which shall effectively reduce the throw, spray or splash likely to be emitted from any wheel or tire. Said flaps or guards required shall be of a type and size prescribed and approved by the director. |
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