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(L to R) Darryn Young, chief operating officer of Young’s Welding Inc., and Derrick Bruenger, PopUp Towing Products advertising/marketing/ sales, make towing products from PopUp’s Kansas plant.
New Ideas Pop Up PopUp Towing Products recently launched two new niche towing products in 2022. By RV News Staff
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errick Bruenger has been pulling his weight in the RV industry for two decades. Throughout his career, “pulling his weight” has meant numerous things. Most recently, it includes launching two new PopUp Towing Products offerings. Before joining PopUp in 2012, Bruenger worked at NuWa Industries for seven years. NuWa used frames built by Young’s Products LLC, the parent company of PopUp Towing Products.
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Working since 2005 at NuWa and PopUp provided Bruenger with an up-close look at consumers’ towing needs. “It helps when you have seen a lot of crushed trailers and crunched trucks,” he said. “I have seen the results of a lot of the problems that we now solve with what our company makes.” The newly released King Pin 2 Hitch Ball (KP2BP) is an adapter hitch ball that empowers a fifth wheel hitch to tow gooseneck trailers. The product
solves the problem of needing to switch out hitches when transitioning from towing a fifth wheel to a gooseneck trailer. The KP2BP has a 10-inch round bolster plate in the middle. The top side of the plate has a standard 2-inch kingpin. The bottom side features a 2 5/16-inch hitch ball. Brian Fairchild, PopUp Towing Products sales and business development consultant, said Canadian distributors requested that PopUp rvnews.com
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