2017 Product Updates // Knapheide

We released both new products and improvements to current products at this year's Work Truck Show. Watch to learn more.

Half a Century of Cutting Edge Engineering...Creates the Harbor ComboMaster

Nearly half a century of cutting edge engineering coupled with our obsession to create the perfect contractor body resulted in this design. You told us you want more space. So we created the ComboMaster series which boasts more work and storage space than any comparable contractor body in its class.

Standard Features:

• 36-inch Rear platform with fold-down 10-inch and two 33"Lx 10"H x 19"D under-deck storage compartments.
• Overcab rack legs attach to the back of the horizontal compartment, giving extra work room on the platform, yet able to store a 15-ft. ladder with ease.
• Stainless Steel self-opening pop-top lids w/ body length compartment bins & 4" dividers
• Push Button locking system with red band locking indicator
• Modern gas shocks on each side opening door to keep them open during loading and unloading
• 8" deep recessed bumper for sure footing when entering bed
• Adjustable, but lockable, shelving system
• Weather shield system around locks, doors, and hingles, preventing leaks and securing the tools of your trade. Neoprene door seals, water-proof gaskets, self-sealing stainless steel rivets, and silky smooth three-point door latches with Teflon glides.

Want a super-mega version? Ask about our Maxi Combo.

Learn more at: http://htbi.net/

Highway Products Toolbox - Removable Tool Tray

Tool trays made of plastic will crack, bend and break. These durable aluminum tool trays sit high on the tool box for easy access. The easy-to-grip handle enables you to remove the tray or you can slide it to the side. This simple, yet functional design allows you to organize smaller items that would normally get lost on the bottom of your tool box.

Sortimo By Knapheide at the 2017 Work Truck Show

Work Truck Show 2017. Here's a look at some of what was shown from the most innovative line of van equipment in the industry: Sortimo By Knapheide.

FORD F-150, F-250 SUPER DUTY, TRANSIT, TRANSIT CONNECT, TAURUS WIN VINCENTRIC BEST FLEET VALUE IN AMERICA AWARDS

DEARBORN, Mich., April 25, 2017 – Seven Ford Motor Company cars, trucks and vans have won the Vincentric Best Fleet Value in America awards for 2017. The awards recognize vehicles that provide fleet customers with lowest total cost of ownership.

Ford’s 2017 winners are proven performers that have taken home awards in prior years:

• Ford Taurus SE: Seven-time large sedan winner
• Ford F-150 XL: Five-time full-size half-ton pickup winner
• Ford F-250 Super Duty XL: Two-time full-size three-quarter-ton pickup winner
• Ford Transit Connect XLT: Five-time small commercial passenger van winner
• Ford Transit 150 XL low-roof van: Three-time full-size half-ton passenger van winner
• Two Lincoln models, Lincoln MKZ Hybrid and Lincoln MKX Premiere, also earned awards.

Vincentric Best Fleet Value in America awards are based on fleet lifecycle costs in eight key areas – depreciation, fuel, insurance, financing, repairs, fees and taxes, opportunity costs and maintenance. Winning vehicles have the lowest lifecycle costs across 28 ownership and mileage scenarios – ranging from 24 months of ownership/10,000 miles annually to 60 months/40,000 miles annually.

Learn more, including the specific trim levels of the award-winning vehicles, at www.vincentric.com

ABOUT FORD MOTOR COMPANY
Ford Motor Company is a global automotive and mobility company based in Dearborn, Michigan. With about 202,000 employees and 62 plants worldwide, the company’s core business includes designing, manufacturing, marketing and servicing a full line of Ford cars, trucks and SUVs, as well as Lincoln luxury vehicles. To expand its business model, Ford is aggressively pursuing emerging opportunities with investments in electrification, autonomy and mobility. Ford provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products and services, please visit www.corporate.ford.com.

Enoven Industries - Where Flatbeds are Not Just Flatbeds!

• 100% fabricated and installed in house, all bodies are built for heavy duty use
• Your choice of smooth (10ga, 3/16”) or diamond plate steel or 7/8” and 1-1/8” Apitong hardwood decks.
• Custom builds are our specialty, we can sides to make your flat a rack syle or landscaper body

• Rugby and Omaha Standard Subframe style and truck frame mounted conversion hoists
• Fully hydraulic or electric over hydraulic hoists
• Hoists for bodies 8’ long up to 24’ long

See More at: http://enovenind.com/products-2/flatbeds/

Harbor 14' Saw Body - Lift, Haul and Store for Concrete Cutting Contractors.

The Harbor Saw Body is used by concrete cutting contractors. It is as functionally effective as it is good looking.It has huge locking compartments to keep large saw blades and other gear out of the weather and out of sight.

The lift gate serves two purposes, one being the obvious one to lift the equipment onto the bed area and the other to provide a backstop to secure the equipment in place and prevent it from rolling off the back of the bed! See more Saw Bodies at http://www.htbi.net/truckbodies/sawbody.html

Visit our website at www.htbi.net for more information or call Harbor at 800-433-9452.

Routing software cuts miles, fuel use and improves customer service

Time and money are two critical components of any successful business plan. When a business can cut time and save money, all in one step, that is a plan worth exploring. If there is a customer service improvement as well, then that is a plan worth doing. And that’s what Michigan-based Hagopian Cleaning Services did by installing routing software from Paragon Software Systems.

With offices around the world, including Dallas, Paragon offered up a solution to help Hagopian cut the miles its drivers were traveling and save fuel in the process. “We had all our orders on little dispatch cards, and it would take one person all day to route the [trucks],” Tim DeTavernier, assistant manager of on-location cleaning, says. “It eliminated the need to have a third person in dispatching.”

Hagopian traces its roots back to 1938 when founder Haroutun “Harry” Hagopian answered a call from a customer of his LaSalle Chemical Products Co. (which manufactured industrial cleaning compounds) asking if Harry could remove a stain from a carpet. During World War II, with new carpet production ceasing, the need for someone to clean older carpets grew and the Carpet Dyeing Service Co. was founded. Hagopian developed the first procedure in America for topical dyeing of wall-to-wall carpeting.

Source: http://fleetowner.com/running-green/green-fleet-month-cleaning

2017 Product Updates // Knapheide

We released both new products and improvements to current products at this year's Work Truck Show. Watch to learn more.

CargoGlide CG1000

The CargoGlide CG1000 for Pickups, Vans and SUV's makes storage and retrieval much easier!

GM Hands Over Colorado ZH2 Fuel Cell Vehicle to U.S Army

General Motors Global Fuel Cell Activities Executive Director Charlie Freese (center) talks about the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2, GM's extreme off-road-capable fuel-cell-powered electric vehicle, with U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) as U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development, and Engineering Center (TARDEC) director Dr. Paul Rogers looks on April 10, 2017, in Milford, Michigan. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The physically imposing Chevrolet Colorado ZH₂, the most extreme off-road-capable fuel-cell-powered electric vehicle ever from General Motors, was revealed today at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).

Standing more than 6½ feet tall and more than seven feet wide, the Colorado ZH₂ was built on a stretched midsize pickup chassis. Reinforced inside and out, the ZH₂ rides on 37-inch tires and a specially modified suspension that helps the vehicle climb over and descend all manner of terrain.

The U.S. Army will test the Colorado ZH₂ in extreme field conditions next year to determine the viability of hydrogen-powered vehicles on military missions.

The Colorado ZH₂ features an Exportable Power Take-Off unit (EPTO) that allows the fuel cell to power activity away from the vehicle, such as remote locations where electric power may otherwise be unavailable.

GM and the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) collaborated to develop the Colorado ZH₂ from contract to concept in less than a year.

GM is leveraging a range of advanced technologies for multiple applications, including military.

“The speed with which innovative ideas can be demonstrated and assessed is why relationships with industry are so important to the Army,” said Paul Rogers, director of TARDEC. “Fuel cells have the potential to expand the capabilities of Army vehicles significantly through quiet operation, exportable power and solid torque performance, all advances that drove us to investigate this technology further.”

The Army will evaluate the ZH₂ fuel cell for:

• Near-silent operation enabling silent watch capability
• Reduced acoustic and thermal signatures
• High wheel torque at all speeds via electric drive
• Low fuel consumption across operating range
• Water by-product for field uses

GM and TARDEC have fuel cell development laboratories located 20 miles apart in southeast Michigan. Most of the Colorado ZH₂ was assembled in GM’s Advanced Vehicle Integration facility in Warren. Calibration testing at GM’s Milford Proving Ground will continue into early 2017, when the vehicle will be turned over to the Army for a year of field testing.

“The Colorado ZH₂ is a terrific example of GM’s engineering and design skill in creating an off-road vehicle relevant to a range of potential users,” said Charlie Freese, executive director of GM Global Fuel Cell Activities. “Over the next year, we expect to learn from the Army the limits of what a fuel cell propulsion system can do when really put to the test.”

The Colorado ZH₂ contract is GM’s second vehicle development with a U.S military branch announced this year. In June, the U.S. Navy unveiled a GM fuel cell-powered Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) that is currently in pool testing before eventual deployment. The UUV leverages GM fuel cell technology common with the Colorado ZH_2, demonstrating the flexibility to power a range of mobile and stationary devices.

GM has accumulated 3.1 million miles of hydrogen fuel cell testing via Project Driveway, a 119-vehicle fleet driven by more than 5,000 people in a multi-year fuel cell experience program.

About General Motors

General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM, TSX: GMM) and its partners produce vehicles in 30 countries, and the company has leadership positions in the world's largest and fastest-growing automotive markets. GM, its subsidiaries and joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Cadillac, Baojun, Buick, GMC, Holden, Jiefang, Opel, Vauxhall and Wuling brands. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety, security and information services, can be found at http://www.gm.com

About TARDEC

Headquartered at the U.S. Army Detroit Arsenal in Warren, Michigan, TARDEC is a major research, development and engineering center for the Army Materiel Command’s Research, Development and Engineering Command and an enterprise partner in the TACOM Life Cycle Management Command. TARDEC is the Nation’s laboratory for advanced military automotive technology and serves as the Ground Systems Integrator for all Defense Department manned and unmanned ground vehicle systems. With roots dating back to the World War II era, TARDEC develops and integrates the right technology solutions to improve current force effectiveness and provides superior capabilities for future force integration. More information can be found at http://tardec.army.mil

How we punish the Ford Transit during testing

Drivers at the Ford Test Track in Lommel, Belgium, put the all-new Transit through hell before it goes on sale. The van is driven the equivalent of 11 million km -- about 275 times around the world --

Nissan NV Cargo Van

The 2015 Nissan NV Cargo is a perfect fit for the way you do business, with smart design, easy-access to all the space you need, and the confidence of America's Best Commercial Van Limited Warranty. Find out more about more about the confident, capable, 2015 Nissan NV Cargo. Nissan. Innovation that excites.

To learn more about the all-new 2015 NV Cargo Van go to: http://www.nissancommercialvehicles.com

Service Truck Tour

Tour of a service truck body.

Sortimo By Knapheide at the 2017 Work Truck Show

Work Truck Show 2017: Here's a look at some of the most innovative line of van equipment in the industry: Sortimo By Knapheide.