
NTEA, the Work Truck Association, released its updated OEM Chassis Considerations Guide, designed to help inform OEM product development communities of the work truck industry's needs from their chassis products.
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"NTEA's Chassis Considerations Guide serves as an important tool for OEMs and anyone designing truck-mounted equipment to use during their product development process," says Steve Spata, NTEA senior technical assistance director. "This comprehensive guidebook comes at a pivotal time — as vehicles become increasingly complex — and helps support chassis product development for a broad array of commercial vehicle applications. Building on the history and success of NTEA's Chassis Design Considerations for the Service Body Industry, this guide captures valuable truck body and vehicle upfitter perspectives and industry knowledge."
Topics included in the OEM Chassis Considerations Guide are:
- Chassis features and functions.
- Electrical needs.
- Regulatory and safety considerations.
- Vocational market and design challenges.
The guide, NTEA says, offers strategic recommendations and considerations for key industry segments, including:
- Ambulances.
- Articulating cranes.
- Cargo van interiors.
- Dump bodies.
- Mid-size buses.
- Propane trucks.
- Service bodies and telescopic cranes.
- Snowplows.
- Van bodies.
The guide is free for NTEA members.