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In some cases, you might choose an aluminum truck body over a steel truck body. Aluminum is much lighter than steel, which allows you to haul a larger payload. These lighter truck bodies entered the market in 2000, and they continue to gain popularity. If it’s time for you to choose a new truck bed, you might consider an aluminum body.
Accidents could easily happen when operating a bucket truck. While you won’t be able to prevent some of the accidents caused by others, you could definitely minimize the hazards. Safety isn’t just about ensuring that the equipment is working properly. Safety at the work site and ensuring that rubberneckers don’t run into the truck, the boom or the team.
Sometimes accessories for trucks are extras that make life more bearable. However, if it’s an accessory for a work truck, it could make life safer and make your job easier. Drake-Scruggs has several accessories to accomplish ease and safety on a job. Whether you have an older fleet you want to upgrade or you are building a new fleet, add these accessories to your trucks.
Regardless of the industry you are in, you may need more than one type of truck body for your fleet. Utilities need cranes, but also need service bodies and dump bodies, and may even need a flatbed truck. Construction workers have more use for service bodies and dump bodies, but may find that a flatbed for hauling larger equipment or even a crane for those who build taller buildings or work on utilities on the property may come in handy. Having the proper truck body for the job not only makes the job easier, but in many cases, could make it safer.
We at Drake-Scruggs often have inventory specials listed on our site. Our current inventory special is the Auto Crane Titan 38 Body and HC-7 NexStar III Service Crane on a 2016 Ram 5500 truck. This strong features tons of storage for tools and equipment, a 20-inch work bench bumper with skid plates so you won’t slip while climbing up into the truck or bucket, an enclosed tool chest, compressor and more.
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