Bumper-mounted truck servicing platform

A service platform for removable mounting on a vehicle bumper disposed adjacent a vertical wall portion of the vehicle, the bumper having an upper flange extending horizontally toward such wall portion and a front vertical flange providing a frontal face, comprising, in combination:

• a generally planar rectangularly shaped platform member;
• a pair of hooks each having a planar first portion adapted to overlie the upper edge of the bumper and extend completely thereacross, and a planar second portion connected to the first portion at an edge thereof and underlying the first portion and disposed in parallel space relation therefrom a distance only slightly exceeding the thickness of the upper flange of the bumper, whereby said hook must be slidably inserted or removed over the inner edge of the top flange in a substantially horizontal direction, and wherein the free length of the planar second portion of each hook is less than the horizontal distance between the inner edge of the bumper upper flange and the adjacent vertical wall of the vehicle but of sufficiently great length so that said hook cannot be pivoted upwardly when operatively embracing such flange;
• said hooks being spaced apart along a longer side of the platform and pivotally connected thereto at the edge of the platform;
• said platform being swingable relative to the hooks to a substantially vertical position while the hooks are in a horizontal position and shiftable toward the vertical wall of the vehicle to dispose said second hook portion between the inner edge of the bumper upper flange and the vertical wall of the vehicle and said platform shiftable away from said vertical wall of the vehicle to cause said hooks to slidably embrace the bumper upper flange;
• said platform including a pair of braces disposed on the underside thereof in laterally spaced apart relation for engaging the frontal face of the bumper when the platform is in a horizontal position with the hooks embracing the bumper upper flange;
• said hinge connection between the hooks and platform being disposed at the intersection of the upper flange and vertical flange of the bumper when the platform is mounted on the bumper whereby the weight of the platform and a load carried thereby is taken by the first hook portion in flat face-to-face engagement with the bumper upper flange;
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• a step connected to the platform and disposed spaced below and somewhat forwardly of the same.