Abstract: A truck bumper apparatus includes an elongated bumper member sized to extend across a truck and a support member for supporting the bumper member. The bumper member comprises an elongated bumper plate free of apertures for fastening the bumper member to the truck. The support member comprises a mounting plate having fastening apertures for mounting the support member to a truck frame. The bumper member has bumper flanges extending perpendicularly from the side edges of the bumper plate, the bumper flanges having at least two bumper apertures. The support member has support flanges extending perpendicularly from side edges of the mounting plate, the support flanges having support apertures spaced to register with the bumper apertures. The mounting plate has sets of fastening apertures for mounting the support member to at least two different makes of trucks having frames with different patterns of existing apertures for mounting a bumper thereto.

Abstract: A system and method for sizing one's feet for shoes, and for the fitting of shoes. The system includes a computer having a fitting program, which receives foot data from a user, and shoe data for a selected shoe from a shoe information database and compares them, determining a fit indicator for each compared property. The foot and shoe data includes the length, the metatarsal length, the width and the heel width. A useful shoe length is calculated by the program based on the shoe length and several modifiers including the elevation of the heel, the thickness of the collar and the shape and height of the toebox. The program also receives a sock type indicator from the user, indicating a selected sock to be worn with the selected shoe, and accounts for the thickness of the selected sock when determining the fit indicator. The system enables a person to determine a shoe fit, without the need for trying on the selected shoe.