The Trucker's Hitch is one of those knots that once you learn it, you wonder how you ever got along without it!

Use this knot to cinch down a load on your car top, boat, horseback, you name it.  This combination of knots allows a line to be pulled as tight as a guitar string!

Tie off one end of rope.  Lay rope over load to be tied down.  Tie a slippery half hitch in the middle of the line to form a small loop.  With free end make a turn around a fitting and bring the free end back up to the loop in the line.  Feed through and pull line very tight.  Secure the knot with the tension in the line with one or two half hitches (over hand knots) tied snug to the loop.