A recent innovation in duffel bags combines the features of a duffel bag and the traditional rolling hard-sided luggage, called rolling duffle bags. The rolling duffel bag is basically a duffle bag on wheels. The duffel bag on wheels still have the shape of regular travel duffel bags, but are attached to a hard-backed rolling mechanism. This allows travelers to pack things into the travel duffle bags, but also roll it through airports and bus terminals as a duffel bag with wheels.
The purpose of a rolling duffle bag was for those occasions where the traveler may have over packed leaving the duffel luggage too heavy to be carried by shoulder. Certain wheeled duffel bags can even be detached from their hard frame and become carry on duffel bags for convenience. It also increases the durability of the duffel bag luggage.
Susan Breslow Sardone, a guide to traveling, recommends the Big Deuce Rolling Duffel Bag. “What Big Deuce lacks in sleekness, it makes up for in versatility,” says Sardone. Big Deuce makes leather duffel bags that carry a detachable daypack, which is a good place to stash an emergency change of clothes before you check the rest of the unit through baggage. Big Deuce leather duffle bags can hoist into a duffle bag with wheels, and into carry on duffle bags. Their wheeled duffle bags have contoured padded straps and a padded back wall.