NTEA, the Work Truck Association, released its first OEM Chassis Considerations Guide.
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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's 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."
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The guide covers ambulances, articulating cranes, cargo vans, dump bodies, mid-size buses, propane trucks, and service bodies and telescopic cranes. Topics covered include chassis features and functions, electrical needs, regulator and safety considerations, and vocational market and design challenges.
The OEM Chassis Considerations Guide is free to NTEA members.
