Your Truck Body Must Be Weather Tight!

Our Rainmaster® style doors give your truck body a weather-tight seal that can't be beat!

Highway Products developed this unique Rainmaster® style of internal rain gutter in 1984 for our semi and heavy truck tool boxes. It was so successful we carried it over to our truck body products. You can see the simplicity of this design makes sense and is very weatherproof. Notice the rugged rain-gutter design surrounds the box opening and actually channels water away before it makes contact with the Trim-lok™ automotive style weather stripping. Hence the name Rainmaster®

Why does aluminum make cents?

Save $1000 per year in fuel costs! How much does it cost to haul an extra 600 -1000 pounds of steel around? Answer: We are estimating between one and three gallons of fuel per day. 

Sound like too much? Let's do the Math

Of course we are just guesstimating but if you figure 260 working days in a year and 40 - 100 miles a day, this is not out of the question for a work truck. Right?

At .10 cents per mile savings with an aluminum body, which we feel is conservative, you would save between $4.00 and $10.00 per day. $4.00 per day x 260days = $1040.00 savings annually. At $10.00 per day x 260 days = $2600.00 savings annually.

Adds up quickly doesn't it?

What is the biggest threat to service bodies? Answer: rust

Rust is the number one killer of service bodies. Especially in the northeast regions of the USA where salt is used for ice control. Steel just does not hold up to it.

You can put all the fancy coatings you want on steel but they cannot withstand the constant sand blasting from the road and they can't paint the nooks and crannies where moisture sneaks into.

They may look good from the topside but underneath is where they get blasted and underneath is where they fall apart. Some service bodies don't last more than a year.

We use a marine grade aluminum that is used by boat manufacturers world wide. We also make aluminum boats so we've already been there. You don't need to paint them at all and they should last longer than you do.

What is the resale value of an average size aluminum service body you might see on a 3/4 ton pickup truck compared to a steel service body after 4 years? Estimate - steel $500 - $1500 in good shape. Aluminum $4000 - $6000 in good shape.

With an aluminum service body it makes sense to transfer the body to your next truck. Why not. A steel bed will cost you more to transfer than the body is worth.

 How do you put a price on wear and tear? An aluminum truck body can save thousands on the purchase of a 3/4 ton truck where a steel body might require a 1 ton truck. Maybe a 1/2 ton instead of a 3/4 ton truck. Then you can figure the cost difference between the two in fuel mileage, tire cost, and tire mileage. You can probably think of a few more.

That's four very good reasons why any aluminum truck body will pay for itself.

Carry a lot of parts?

Another shot of our drawers. They're a great way to optimize your truck storage and organization. We use 300 pound ball bearing drawer slides in the small drawers and 400 pound slides in the bigger drawers.

Just tell us where and how many drawers you want.

Need drawers for your present service body? Call us with dimensions and get a quote.

Call today for pricing & shipping cost. 866-300-0137

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Last Update: 05/18/2011
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