Mandar Dighe, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Knapheide, talks about Knapheide’s 175th anniversary and how the future will be built around solution-based design.

Russ Wallace, Product Manager at Switch-N-Go, debuts Switch-N-Go’s first system designed specifically for commercial EVs. Wallace explains how their current electrical systems combined with their brand new all-aluminum bodies combine to provide good payload capacities in medium-duty work trucks.

Russ Wallace, Product Manager at Switch-N-Go, explains the design benefits of their 2nd generation system, which boasts a significant reduction in loading friction as well as improved serviceability and durability. Wallace also looks at how installer feedback prompted updates to give their bumper a more universal fit among various makes and models of work trucks.

Russ Wallace, Product Manager at Switch-N-Go, reveals the influences on their company’s beginning. Wallace explains how customer demand for medium-duty applications as well as for commercial EVs, affects Switch ‘N Go’s product development.

Ian Lahmer, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Venco Venturo, explains how upfitters benefit from attending Work Truck Week. Lahmer also demos how new features in  Venco Venturo body design improve upfit installation and post-install repairs.

Gabby Haines, Marketing Manager at Adrian Steel, highlights a prototype upfit for a truck for situations when a light-duty van is no longer available.

Gabby Haines, Marketing Manager at Adrian Steel, demos some van upfit features that help HVAC technicians to work more efficiently and stay safe. Features also include innovations to simplify upfit installations.

Gabby Haines, Marketing Manager at Adrian Steel, talks about company values which include closed-loop customer feedback. Gabby reveals how customer input led to HVAC innovations and expanding truck upfits as some light-duty vans are dropped from OEM lineups. Gabby explains how Adrian Steel is offering integrated branding graphics as part of the upfit process. This is also the debut of Adrian Steel’s ProLift series ladder rack that features one-handed operation.

Craig Kemmerling, VP of Commercial Sales at Driverge, and Jim Fuller, President at U.S. Upfitters, talk about multiple mergers, acquisitions, and creating a state-of-the-art vehicle modification center. Kemmerling explains how Driverge manages to stay at the leading edge of emerging trends in commercial vehicle upfits. Fuller also chats about the challenges and benefits of developing a community within the work truck industry.

Eric Fisher, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Blue Arc, unveils Blue Arc’s new class 3-5 crew cab chassis that was designed and built from the ground up as an all-electric vehicle. Fisher explores details about use-specific modular range and body packages, ICE-comparable payload, and EV-specific tires. Fisher also explains how Blue Arc utilizes a pre-sales interactive model calculator to come up with the most reasonable vehicle features and options for business owners to maximize ROI.