It can take a lot of thought and planning to make sure all of your camping gear fits perfectly and has a permanent place inside your Titan rear drawers.

Organisation is key to efficient travels, and with a set of  Titan rear drawers you should have an efficient and easy way to make sure you can always access what you need in an emergency situation!

KEEP THE ACCESSIBLE… ACCESSIBLE!

When travelling or working there will always be important gear that you stash away inside your Titan rear drawers that you need to access regularly. This can include cooking gear, or a sturdy air compressor like the Thumper MKII or Thumper Max, recovery gear or even plates and cups for lunch.

To save time on the tracks and to make sure you don’t have to dig too deep inside your drawers every time you need a cup for a drink, you should pack the gear you use the most, in the easiest to access part of your Titan rear drawers.

This convenient location is towards the rear of your Titan rear drawers and nearest to the latches, this way when you open your drawers, what you are most likely to need is right there!

CONSIDER MOMENTUM

When packing your camping gear into your  vehicle it’s a good idea to pack all of the heavy items securely and at the bottom of the pile of gear, if you store cans and jars and other loose items in your  Titan rear drawers and fasten the bulkier gear to the heavy duty tie down points located on the top, it will stop these items from flying loose throughout the vehicle. It’s a good idea to keep the bulky and heavy things packed more forward and your lighter more delicate gear at the back of your vehicle.

This is important for a number of reasons, but primarily because when you are driving along and end up in an emergency braking situation, the lighter softer gear you have packed carries less inertia and is less likely to end up sconning you or your passengers if it breaks free.

Where the heavier gear has a tendency to continue travelling forward at great speed. This inertia acting on your heavier gear also has the potential to turn your, loafs of bread and bags of chips into a squashed pile of crumbs very quickly!

KEEP YOUR FOOD SAFE

Making sure you are nourished and satisfied with food is one of the greatest primal instincts, this is why it is important to pack your food with “preservation” in mind. The roughest tracks can shake, bounce and squash some of your favourite trackside delicacies into a pulp, the same is true by simply driving along well-maintained roads. Making planned cuisine more like a lucky dip, than what you were originally planning when you visited the supermarket.

To prevent your breakfast lunch and dinner becoming moosh, a small plastic ‘food box’ available for a couple of dollars from the hardware store, will protect all of your foodstuffs from being destroyed after a few minutes on the tracks. It’s also handy for taking your food, out of the vehicle and out to the location you are cooking.

EMERGENCY GEAR!

When the fecal matter hits the fan knowing where all of your emergency gear is located, includes your Hercules Recovery gear, Comprehensive first aid Kit and even your Fire extinguisher.

Your emergency gear should always be readily accessible and handy for unexpected encounters on the tracks.

We always pick a spot when organising our Titan rear drawers to stash all of our emergency gear, that way you can save a lot of time and avoid having to unpack and repack all of your equipment when the pressure is on. Personal history shows that it is always a good idea to notify your passengers of the location of this emergency gear so in the case of a real emergency they will be able to help you out by quickly grabbing the gear you need!

This has saved us in at least 2 or 3 different events where dry grass found its way to the exhaust headers and nearly burnt our car to the ground.

This comes in way more handy than people give it credit for you never know where or when you will encounter an emergency and who you might need to help out when you are far from civilisation.

These are just a couple of tips to help you pack your Titan Rear Drawers more efficiently but you can experiment to see what works best for your setup!