On Oct. 8, 2024, NTEA and the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) filed suit in the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District of California on behalf of our memberships against the California Air Resources Board...
NTEA periodically receives questions from upfitters, fleets and end users on what required emergency equipment, such as fire extinguishers, they need to operate their vehicles as a motor carrier. This topic comes up...
Our fleet and end-user partners are requesting turnkey work trucks from us, but we know there are additional emergency equipment items normally provided by the operator. Can you tell us what is required?
Adding a snowplow to a truck, even temporarily, has implications to meeting the lighting requirements under FMVSS 108. Key examples Snowplows will impair the lighting requirements for headlamps, turn signal lamps, etc...
The term “certification” applies to all new vehicles. However, when combining new or used chassis and bodies, the result may or may not be considered a new vehicle for certification purposes.