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Let's Be Real About the Advanced Fuels Landscape

NTEA, in collaboration with Black Fleet Network, presented a webinar and discussion on the advanced fuel landscape in commercial vehicles. Access the webinar recording and presentation slides..

Tech Connections

Determining center of gravity for truck bodies and equipment

We are an upfitter, and one of our customers asked for a weight distribution. The software we use requires us to input center of gravity for all the body and equipment components we install. How do we calculate center of...

April 27, 2018

Vehicle Weight Calculation

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Straight truck rear-end protection with liftgates

We are a truck equipment upfitter that sells and installs elevating tailgates on straight trucks. Recently, a customer who owns a straight truck with a van body and liftgate was issued a citation by a motor carrier...

March 31, 2017

Risk Mitigation

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Mud flap requirements for commercial vehicles

Whether you call them mud flaps, splashguards, mud guards or aprons, NTEA members have historically asked — and have often been surprised to learn — that there are no federal government regulations for their application...

August 1, 2025

Generation Next

What it means to be robust

Oftentimes when we think of the word “robust,” other words of a similar nature come to mind, such as: strong, powerful, sturdy, and rugged. Although these excellent synonyms can be used to easily describe robustness,...

August 24, 2023

Tech Trends

F/CMVSS 305: Electrolyte Spillage and Electrical Shock Protection

As more electric vehicles (EVs) make their way into the roadway population, one safety standard OEMs address with lighter vehicles is Federal/Canadian Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 305: Electrolyte Spillage and...

April 17, 2023

Tech Connections

Maximum center of gravity limitations for trucks 10,000 pounds GVWR and below

A customer recently brought in a new 2014 C/K 2500 HD pickup box delete chassis-cab and asked us to install a service body with a corner-mounted crane. We have done the calculations to ensure the finished work truck...

March 8, 2014

Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR)

Tech Trends

Snowplow lighting

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...

August 23, 2024

Tech Trends

Certifying vehicles combined from new and used chassis and bodies

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.

December 5, 2016

Association News

NTEA, SEMA file lawsuit challenging CARB Advanced Clean Fleets EV truck mandates

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...

November 5, 2024

California Air Resources Board (CARB) Regulations

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