Introduction to Autocar's Severe Duty Philosophy

do you still remember how to get how to drive a heavy truck this guy gets Lippy and he doesn't realize I sign his checks every freaking week steel heavy duty how you feeling after that pretty good so think you can take both of us stop don't buy that Peterbilt till you watch this video don't get another Kenworth till you watch this video I second [Music] that all right guys we're at Universal truck in Minnesota and we're going to be looking at a brand of truck that does things different than any other brand that I know of these guys make what is called a severe duty truck Peterbilt also makes these freight liner makes these but this company does things different than any other truck manufacturer in the world from the cab from the frame from the chassis from the engineering from the application let's hook up with uh Mike right now Mike how are you buddy good how are you good all right guys this is Mike from the universal truck nice see he's got Tony in the background so Mike autocar is the only severe duty truck that has an All Steel cab all all steel cab Y and they make their frames special for severe Duty applications absolutely they don't double frame these things they they don't it's not like an afterthought it's from the manufacturer they do it plus when they put these together it's no proprietary information meaning freight liner Peterbilt Volvo if you have a breakdown in a freight liner Peterbilt Volvo and you buy a brand new one you're screwed you're chain to them right you're chained to them with auto car what they do is they make it so if you break down on some whole bunk Road out in the middle of the country as long as a guy is good with a wrench he can get you back on the road you don't have to tow it to a freight lineer a bille kenward dealer to do that and have their proprietary information put back into the machine absolutely it it's this is severe duty truck built to work it's we're kind of taking simp back to the equation and and truck manufacturing and and there's a Hu there's a huge calling for this the heavy frame built from the factory you don't need a double wallet deal with rust jaing all right guys