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Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building Truck Building The ABCs OF A truck is a working tool that can be made to work better with informed spec'ing choices FUEL OIL AND PROPANE DEALERS getting ready to order a new truck know they have decisions to make, and that one of the first is: Should they stick with the same specs as last time, or change up a few things to take advantage of new or improved components that promise operational benefits? Roger Smith of Kurtz Truck Equipment, an outfitter based in Marathon, N.Y., said, "I started in this business in 1971. Back then they drove a pretty basic truck. It was a bare bones truck with a tank and a pump. Nowadays they're buying very sophisticated trucks." Sometimes a component isn't radically new or new at all, but the spec is—for the fuel marketer. For example, a fuel oil or propane dealer who may not have been receptive to a particular established component or technology might be reconsidering for one reason or another. Sometimes adoption of a type of equipment or a sys- tem grows and becomes an industry trend. Truck outfitters who build trucks for fuel oil and propane dealers offered their insights on spec'ing, and noted some useful compo- nents and auxiliary systems, some of which they said can make today's trucks work and look different from their predecessors. Automatic tire chains have been adopted by a number of fuel dealers. "They're air-activated," Smith said. "The driver just flips a switch in the cab." A device tied to the rear axle extends BY STEPHEN BENNETT