Capacity Trucks, located in Longview, TX, is a premier manufacturer of quality yard trucks.  Their product can be seen in ports, shipping hubs, warehouses, distribution centers and terminals throughout the world.  Capacity was looking for a way to make their product more competitive for their business and more sustainable for their customers.

In many cases these trucks go to extreme and very harsh working environments, many times operating 24 hours a day.  This was the  leading cause of an increasing demand for refurbishing leased trucks.  Capacity captured this demand, but needed a way to reduce cost.  Knowing that the frame was one of the determining factors of continued life, their engineers specified a Hot Dip Galvanized (HDG) frame and boom assembly to not only extend the life of the truck, but reduce cost by not having to replace the frames and booms while refurbishing.   The design team understood that the material must be designed for HDG rather than paint.  They had several meetings with the galvanizer to ensure the truck frame and boom assembly were properly designed for hot dip galvanizing.

As of now they have very reliable and well known customers with galvanized truck frames such as FedEx, UPS, BASF and more.  Sustainability and life-cycle costs, both of which can be increased and decreased respectively by galvanizing, is what made galvanizing the most attractive choice for increased quality of this product.