Vehicle-mountable cargo carrier for portable rumble strips

A cargo carrier for portable rumble strips that is mountable to a receiver of a hitch assembly mountable to a vehicle, comprising:

• a basket configured to receive and retain one or more portable rumble strips for storage and transport, the basket including a frame that defines a volume for receiving one or more rumble strips, and the frame includes one or more frame elements that define a bottom wall, a relatively long front wall, a relatively long back wall, and relatively short laterally-spaced side walls that connect the front wall and the back wall, where the front wall, the back wall, and the side walls extend from respective sides of the bottom wall in a common direction;
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• a mounting assembly that includes a pintle bracket connectable to the basket, the pintle bracket including a pintle adapted to be received in a receiver of a hitch assembly mountable to a vehicle;
• where the basket further includes one or more rotating elements at a top of at least one of the side walls to facilitate drawing rumble strips lengthwise over the at least one side wall into or out of the basket.