Truck Bodies with a Lightweight Advantage
Versalift bucket trucks are designed with safety, reliability and efficient operation in mind. A Time Manufacturing Company brand, Versalift leverages its own engineering innovations in combination with other Time brands to deliver a complete fleet solution. Versalift aerial lifts, paired with BrandFX truck bodies, offer customers a set of lightweight advantages, including fuel savings, less overall wear and tear on brakes and suspension, increased payload capacity and shorter braking distance. These are just a few of the advantages of lighter weight fleet equipment.
Choosing a Truck Body
When evaluating truck equipment, fleet managers have truck body options, including steel, aluminum and fiberglass composite. Steel truck bodies are strong, durable and recyclable, but they are usually a heavier option, and tend to reduce a truck’s overall payload capacity. Aluminum truck bodies are lighter weight than steel, but are not as strong, and can sometimes be tricky to repair. Fiberglass truck bodies are both strong and lightweight, and have the advantage of rarely needing repair or having coating issues. BrandFX fiberglass truck bodies, including the UtilityFX™ line and UltimateFX™ line of service and line bodies, provide a powerful example of how BrandFX is the lifecycle value leader.
Truck Body Manufacturer BrandFX is a Time Manufacturing Company Brand
BrandFX is the largest composite truck body in the country. The company manufactures all of our products out of composite fiberglass material. Gary Heisterkamp, Chief Commercial Officer at BrandFX, offers this description: “At BrandFX, we manufacture truck bodies for smaller Ford Rangers, and can go as big as a bigger, tandem-axle line body with a digger derrick or aerial lift mounted on it. Our product is the only one that you can literally walk up to and kick it as hard as you want to kick it, and you’re not going to ding it, you’re not going to dent it and you’re not going to break it. With a metal body, that happens all the time: you bend it, but you can’t bend it back.”
Versalift Truck Mounted Aerial Lifts Support Critical Infrastructure
Versalift equipment is utilized by critical infrastructure maintenance fleets, supporting the overhead networks that keep the power on and the internet flowing. Learn more about each of these critical industries in greater detail.
Truck-mounted Aerial Lifts for Electric Utility Distribution and Transmission Work
Insulated aerial lifts manufactured by Versalift are used by utility fleets to build, maintain and restore the electric utility grids across the United States. The grids that require ongoing maintenance include both larger power transmission networks and smaller local power distribution networks. High reach aerial work platforms are necessary to reach electric transmission equipment at greater than 100 feet above the ground. After weather emergencies, digger derricks are used by technicians and engineers to replace downed power lines, while insulated bucket trucks are used by linemen to eliminate hazards and reestablish consistent electric power to businesses and homes. The Versalift TruGuard® safety system comes standard on all insulated units.
Truck-mounted Aerial Lifts for Telecommunications Work
Aerial lifts manufactured by Versalift are utilized by several major national telecommunications fleets, with van-mounted aerial lifts, dedicated cable splicer units and cable placer units. Growing demand for faster internet speed keeps fleets busy with planning and installing new telecommunication infrastructure. Overhead networks are everywhere in the United States, and they require constant upkeep and maintenance by engineers and other technicians. Technical training programs train telecommunications installers, splicers and troubleshooters to safely do their jobs. Local equipment and service providers offer additional training on the use of specific equipment in order to safely install, maintain and repair overhead communications systems.
Aerial Lifts for Sign, Light and Traffic Signal Maintenance
Versalift aerial lifts support the Sign, Light and Traffic Signal industry by safely enabling daily operational efficiency. Articulated telescopic bucket trucks were developed by Versalift in the 1980’s and continue to deliver the safe, reliable operation. Lightweight aerial lifts enable greater payload capacity, which means that technicians can pack more material and equipment.
Lightweight Durability for Tree Care, Forestry & Line Clearing Work
Truck mounted aerial lifts that are built by Versalift for forestry and tree care tasks are built to tackle heavy duty material handling and hauling requirements. Versalift forestry, tree trimming and utility line clearing units provide the material handling, extra side reach and additional vertical working height needed for forestry and tree care. Overcenter bucket trucks manufactured by Versalift provide options for jib and winch location, multiple platforms, as well as both rear-mounted and standard forestry configurations.
Aerial Lifts for General Maintenance and Municipal Tasks
Versalift helps to maximize government organizations and municipalities‘ budget and resources by optimizing their dollars and limiting time spent on open bids. Sourcewell is a major public cooperative purchasing organization that works with government entities, non-profit entities and educational entities to ensure the entire procurement experience goes smoothly and easily. Working with Sourcewell, Versalift provides a high quality product to municipalities, school districts, NPOs and other entities across the country.