Commercial Truck Success

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Visit the Ever-Growing Commercial Truck Information Source:
CommercialTruckSuccess.com  or comtrk.com October 15, 2008  -  Number 29
 "Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis.
When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination
they usually just evaporate."
 - Jack Canfield
 
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
 
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
but great minds rise above them." 
- Washington Irving
 
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally
dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who
recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."
- Joseph Sugarman
 
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw
 
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."
- George W Crane
In This Issue
Highway Products New Aluminum Service Body!
Sweet Scelzi Drawers Fill Gorgeous Combo!
New National Ford Truck Club Website
Meetings and Events
Here's Something Fun!
New Commercial Truck Locator
Need Some Ideas?
New Commercial Truck Dealer Success Website
Get Your NorCal Jacket Ordered Today!
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Welcome to the Commercial Truck Success Idealetter!
 
This bi-monthly Idealetter will be a brief one-page thought starter and news source for busy commercial sales professionals and managers with numerous links to the Commercial Truck Success website and many other links to useful information, tools and inspiration!
 
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Highway Products New Aluminum Service Body!!

Aluminum Service body

Aluminum Service Body
 
 
The new 8' Aluminum Service Body from Highway Products weighs in at about 645 lbs. compared with a steel body between 1100 and 1500 lbs. Save weight = save fuel costs. They estimate between one and three gallons per day.
 
Highway Products has been building high quality aluminum boxes and flatbeds for many years and this beauty is a logical and long-awaited step for them.
 
Look at the unique top opening compartment with the lift out aluminum bins. Cargo stays dry with their unique style of interior gutter system they designed in the 1980's for their underbed boxes.
 
They also have a lot of different options to customize the body including a sweet drawer assembly. 
 
Check out their very well done and useful website: Highway Products
 
Give my friend Jim Lenford a call at 800-866-5269.

Sweet Scelzi Drawers Fill Gorgeous Combo!

 
Scelzi Logo
 
Slide Out Drawers
Drawer Assembly
Combo Body
 
 
Scelzi Drawer Assembly
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Scelzi Combo Special


Check out this great truck that we saw at Scarff Ford in Auburn, WA just before delivery by Joe Hughes, Fleet/Commercial Manager to the end user. The highlight for us is the drawer assembly. It is absolutely perfect in design and it even appears that it is retrofitable (although I don't know this for a fact). What's great about the drawers is that they look and feel like top of the line Craftsman drawers with the same kind of latch system and they are not made out of 1/4" steel as some are. They are thinner and lighter, but still strong and because of the design, they were able to put 6 drawers in the front compartment and still have a good size space at the top of the drawer assembly! Awesome setup and an easy sale to a customer, but they will have to touch and feel them. Once that's done, it should be a piece of stainless steel.

Also of note is the whole body itself. This body is painted black to match the uplevel trim cab and you know how much Commercial Truck Success likes colored trucks! They did a great job matching the paint and overall the paint is very nicely done. This is a 12' Combo Body on a Super Cab 84" CA truck, but there is a really interesting twist. Check out the additional work platform extension on the back of the Combo Body work platform creating a step that makes it much easier to get up into the bed area and a great place to mount vises, etc. which is what the customer wanted it for. In addition, it has a Class V hitch! This is a first class truck and Scelzi should rightly be proud to roll out a piece as nice as this. Great job Scelzi!

New National Ford Truck Club Website

National Ford Truck Club Logo

 The New National Ford Truck Club website is online. Check it out today! The website address is www.nationalftc.com.
 Meetings and Events
 No current meetings or events scheduled

Here's Something Fun!

Here's something that is totally fun! 

Funny Police Video

 
If you liked that, here's another fun video:
 
 Nor Cal Ford Commercial Truck Locator

     The new Nor Cal Ford Truck Club Commercial Truck Locator is expanding dramatically since the April 24th announcement. There are now over 370 upfitted trucks currently in the locator! If you haven't joined yet, now is a good time.

  • Larry Geweke Ford, Yuba City
  • Crown Motors, Redding
  • Wittmeier Ford, Chico
  • Future Ford, Roseville
  • Razzari Ford, Merced
  • Future Ford of Concord
  • Hansel Ford, Santa Rosa
  • Ron DuPratt Ford, Dixon
  • Serramonte Ford, Daly City
  • Walnut Creek Ford
  • Big Valley Ford, Stockton
  • Corning Ford, Corning
  • Hoblit Motors, Colusa
  • Folsom Lake Ford, Folsom
  • Geweke Ford, Lodi

For more information on this great program, contact Becky or Paul Brown at 530-821-2121. You can also get more information here: Ford Commercial Truck Locator

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New Commercial Truck Dealer Success Website!

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Get Your NorCal Jacket Ordered Today! 

Jacket

Fall is here, so now is a great time to get your coveted NorCal Ford Truck Club jacket. Very reaonably priced, but all are special ordered, so get your orders in as early as you can to make sure they arrive when you want them. You can also get the NorCal Ford Truck Club polo shirt, hat and ceramic coffee mug. NorCal Ford Truck Wearables.
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