Partition and bulkhead requirements

July 10, 2020

Steve Spata

NTEA Technical Assistance Director

We are a truck equipment distributor that regularly installs partitions and bins and racks in cargo vans. A customer asked if our partitions are crash-rated for new vans, but we haven’t found any requirements directly related to partitions. Do partitions have crash ratings?

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