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Is an end user responsible for vehicle certification?

June 5, 2020
Bob Raybuck
NTEA Director of Technical Services
One of our customers is a fleet that operates and maintains work trucks. This fleet often buys new incomplete chassis cabs from a local dealer and mounts used truck bodies and/or equipment onto new incomplete chassis to extend the life of its commercial vehicles. The customer is now asking us to certify its vehicles, and we are not sure if we should. Who is responsible for certifying vehicles that start as incomplete chassis and have a body added from a used vehicle?
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