Commercial and Fleet Body Work

Repainting a whole fleet is a sequencing problem with a paint job inside it. Here is how to order the units, lock the color and keep deliveries running.

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Rivet lines are where a box body starts to come apart. Here is what causes corrosion at the fasteners, how to catch it early and what a real repair looks like.

6 min read

A cracked fiberglass hood is repairable far more often than fleets assume. Here is how hood damage presents, what a laminated repair involves and when to replace.

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A fleet wrap has a working life measured in seasons, not years of guesswork. Here is how vinyl ages in inland Southern California and when to plan replacement.

6 min read

Lift gate mounting plates crack at the weld toes long before the gate stops working. Here is where to look, what causes it and how the structure gets repaired.

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A refrigerated box loses efficiency long before the liner looks bad. Here is how reefer liner delamination starts, how to find it and when relining is the answer.

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Aluminum sheet and FRP composite panels fail differently and repair differently. Here is how a fleet should choose when a box truck side panel needs replacing.

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A roll up door that fights the driver is usually a track or counterbalance problem, not a door panel problem. Here is how the parts fail and what gets replaced.

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A dock strike rarely stops at the bumper. Here is how the load travels into a box truck rear frame and what a body shop checks before writing the repair.

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