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A load carrying vehicle accessory includes rear, medial, and front carrier units each, having a laterally extending chassis-mounted socket member that telescopically receives a sleeve having a pair of posts thereon, the posts having adjustable spacing from a side extemity of the vehicle. The socket

A load carrying vehicle accessory includes rear, medial, and front carrier units each, having a laterally extending chassis-mounted socket member that telescopically receives a sleeve having a pair of posts thereon, the posts having adjustable spacing from a side extemity of the vehicle. The socket members can be clamped under the vehicle chassis and/or incorporated in vehicle bumpers. An optional configuration has front and/or rear mounted a base to which the socket member is pivotally mounted as an arm, the posts being foldable in-line with the arm, the arm also folding inwardly from the side of the vehicle.

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1. Apparatus for carrying a load externally of a vehicle having a body and a chassis including front and rear pairs of laterally disposed wheels, the apparatus comprising a longitudinally spaced plurality of unconnected carrier units, each of the carrier units comprising:(a) a socket member; (b) mea

1. Apparatus for carrying a load externally of a vehicle having a body and a chassis including front and rear pairs of laterally disposed wheels, the apparatus comprising a longitudinally spaced plurality of unconnected carrier units, each of the carrier units comprising:(a) a socket member; (b) means for mounting the socket member transversely to the chassis, an outside extremity of the socket member projecting to proximate alignment with a side extremity of the body; (c) a sleeve member telescopically receivable in the socket member; (d) a post member; (e) means for holding the post member upwardly projecting from the sleeve member when the sleeve member is in the socket member; (f) means for securing the post member selectively in plural fixed axial locations relative to the socket member for supporting the load above the sleeve member, wherein at least some of the post members are locatable for laterally restraining opposite sides of the load, and the post member of at least one of the carrier units is selectively locatable in fixed axial locations relative to the sleeve member of the at least one carrier unit.