Vehicle Specification

We are a truck equipment distributor and routinely get requests from our customers to install strobe lights. What are the requirements regarding these types of lights?

Customers often consult NTEA members about size and weight limits for their vehicles, and exclusions for length and width routinely come up in these inquiries to make determinations on a given vehicle build.

As a truck equipment distributor, we regularly receive customer questions about what counts toward length and width limits. They want to maximize the size of their vehicles when we spec’ the application with them. Where...

The technical services department receives questions on vehicle dimensional limits, including width. Such requirements involving infrastructure on the National Network of Interstate Freeways are promulgated by Federal...

NTEA receives numerous vehicle lighting questions, ranging from clearance lamp placement, to correct lights for an application, to the ability to place a flashing red and blue light on a customer’s vehicle (unless they...

As fleet managers, we often come up with creative approaches to achieve the demands for work truck designs. Often, we need outside-the-box solutions to meet the challenge of designing a vehicle to accomplish more at a...

Getting a job done using the right tools is always the most efficient path. When it comes to fleet composition, having appropriate tools becomes a game changer for controlling costs and allowing operations to run at peak...

While electrification has been front and center in regulations and headlines, choosing the most productive energy source depends on your operation’s specific needs as related to duty cycle, energy availability and...

Pickup box removal enables upfitters to modify by removing the existing pickup box and installing a variety of work truck bodies, such as flatbeds, service and catering bodies, etc. Ford, GM and Ram are the only OEMs...

In the multistage manufacturing process, most upfitters are required to add lighting to the completed vehicle to meet specific FMVSS or CMVSS 108 conformity requirements.