American Institute of Service Body Manufacturers (AISBM) — an NTEA operating division since 1979 — is composed of service body manufacturing firms. The group’s purpose is to maintain an effective working relationship with truck chassis manufacturers and keep the commercial vehicle industry informed on relevant engineering matters pertaining to service bodies. AISBM is dedicated to the development and marketing of safe, efficient, and useful products.
AISBM regularly works with chassis OEMs to maintain and expand chassis available for pickup box removal. As part of these efforts, members provide insight and support to interested OEMs and their testing programs during their next-generation vehicle development processes.
Testing programs cover wide areas of development, such as fuel fill requirements for Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) compliance, FMVSS safety testing, electrical interface issues, and body mounting techniques. Cooperation between body manufacturers and chassis OEMs enables box removal programs to continue for a variety of pickups in the work truck market. OEM support is imperative because their expertise in vehicle design and safety makes these programs possible. It would be cost-prohibitive for a body manufacturer to perform necessary tests to certify a vehicle to current safety and emissions requirements.
AISBM published Chassis Design Considerations for the Service Body Industry to help OEM product development and engineering teams understand the service/utility body manufacturer’s technical and product needs when the OEM is designing bodies for its new pickup and chassis-cab versions. This publication — which addresses key items the service body industry would like OEMs to consider during new vehicle design and development, along with periodic updates — has been incorporated into NTEA’s OEM Chassis Considerations Guide.
The group also conducts a quarterly body shipments survey of its members, the results of which offer insight into the production and sale of service, utility, and crane bodies.
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for membership in the Division, a company, corporation or other entity must be an NTEA member in good standing and be engaged in the manufacture of service, crane or utility bodies for the North American market. Apply online at ntea.com/aisbm (member login required) or contact Division Secretary Bob Raybuck at bob@ntea.com for more information.
2025–2026 Steering Committee
- Division Chair: Kevin McGuire, Brand FX Body Company
- Division Vice Chair/Treasurer: Ken Mally, RKI Inc
- Division At-Large Member: Jake Stickney, Stahl Truck Bodies
- Division Secretary: Bob Raybuck, NTEA
AISBM member companies
- BrandFX Body Co (Fort Worth, Texas)
- California Truck Equipment Co (Downey, California)
- CM Truck Beds (Kingston, Oklahoma)
- Dakota Bodies (Watertown, South Dakota)
- EBY Truck Bodies (M.H. EBY Inc) (Blue Ball, Pennsylvania)
- Harbor Truck Bodies (Brea, California)
- Iowa Mold Tooling Co Inc (Garner, Iowa)
- The Knapheide Manufacturing Company (Quincy, Illinois)
- Load King Manufacturing (Kansas City, Missouri)
- Maintainer Corp of Iowa Inc (Sheldon, Iowa)
- Omaha Standard PALFINGER, A Member of the PALFINGER North America Group (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
- Ramsey Industries (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
- Reading Truck Group (Reading, Pennsylvania)
- RKI Inc (Houston, Texas)
- Royal Truck Body (Carson, California)
- Service Trucks International/Tiger Cranes (Sioux Center, Iowa)
- Stahl Truck Bodies (Wooster, Ohio)
- Stellar Industries (Garner, Iowa)
- TAFCO Equipment Co (Blue Earth, Minnesota)
- Warner Bodies (Elwood, Indiana)