We are in the process of purchasing a new truck. We are getting a two door commercial chassis with a 1250 gpm pump and 3,000 gallon tank. We want the truck to have high side storage on the drivers side and low side storage on the passenger side, just like most traditional pumpers. We have specified that this is what we want to all bidders. The problem that we have ran into is that two of the three bids that we have received is pretty much what seems like to me a body that has two low sides and they will install four compartments with roll up doors on the drivers side railing. I asked about this and was told that a truck that carries this much weight needs to have space in between lower and high side compartments so that the compartments are able to flex and shift whenever the body moves to prevent damage to the doors as well as the body.
This makes no sense to me. I might be wrong but what it seems like to me is that these companies build alot of double low side tankers and have plenty of these bodies laying around already built. So in turn what they are gonna do is take that body go to their local tractor supply, buy a four door storage bin and diamond plate it then throw it on the side of my truck and sell it to me for double what they sell regular 3,000 gallon tankers for.
Has anyone ran into this issue when trying to spec out a pumper-tanker?
This makes no sense to me. I might be wrong but what it seems like to me is that these companies build alot of double low side tankers and have plenty of these bodies laying around already built. So in turn what they are gonna do is take that body go to their local tractor supply, buy a four door storage bin and diamond plate it then throw it on the side of my truck and sell it to me for double what they sell regular 3,000 gallon tankers for.
Has anyone ran into this issue when trying to spec out a pumper-tanker?
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