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Heavy-Duty Frame and Chassis Design

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STOP! Don't buy a Peterbuilt until you see this!

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Autocar trucks feature a high-carbon frame designed from the factory to withstand severe-duty applications. Unlike other brands that might require 'double framing' or aftermarket modifications to meet heavy-duty needs, Autocar's frame is built from scratch for strength, eliminating concerns about rust jacking or compromised integrity from secondary modifications. This design supports various heavy applications like roll-offs, hook-lifts, dump trucks, water tankers, and cement trucks.

Goal: Understand the robust frame design for heavy-duty applications

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  • Autocar Truck Chassis Autocar — Demonstrating the high carbon frame

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thank you Mike let's walk around and check check it out steel cab it's it's built to work it's it's it's a solid piece of iron and we haven't had that in the industry for 20 plus years everything's gotten cheaper high carbon frame manufactured to to absorb the stress of the body you're going to put on so rolloffs hook lifts dump trucks uh roll back trucks with wheel lifts cement trucks cement cement trucks I mean some of the craziest heaviest Duty applications that you do yeah water tankers scale machines anything heavy heavy heavy this is built from the factory put the body on and go to work okay so now autocar is located in the United States so it's an engineering company engineering company and they manufacture here in the United States they manufacture and they try to source as many components as possible to put in their trucks locally within the United States as well whenever possible yes and some things that people don't know about auto car is what Tony you were telling me 1923 they built the first electric truck so that's correct they built two of them in 1923 been in business since 1897 okay continuously in the United States 5 years after they started they got out of the automobile business and

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