If you have a commercial truck working on the road today, a bed liner is a really great option to consider. Bed liners can help you save money, time, maintenance, and wear. Bed liners can be chosen to fit your specific application that are most conducive to your operational needs. Here are four of the top benefits of installing a bed liner on an industrial truck.
1. Decreased Time to Dump Load
If you are operating a dump truck, the right bed liner will allow the load to easily flow out of the bed, whether you are talking about sand, gravel, aggregate, lime, asphalt, or soil. Time is money, and the saved minutes of faster delivery per dump add up over time to healthy savings on your bottom line. Over time, the bed liner installation will pay for itself. Later, it will add gravy to your bottom line.
Having a truck bed liner also reduces, if not eliminates the issue and problems of some of the load remaining in the bed when you attempt to dump. This is another time-waster, creating a need to sweep and scrape the contents of the last load out before you send the truck for a load with another material. Bed liners further eliminate the need to dump at angles steeper than are safe for your employees.
2. Non-Slip Surface
Accidents are costly for any enterprise. Adding the right bed liner to your cargo bed creates a durable, non-slip surface that helps keep your valuable employees safe and on the clock, despite rain, snow, or sleet. That, in turn, saves you from losses due to having to turn away or delay business when key employees are injured. Bed liners also prevent losses due to disability insurance claims caused by accidents on slick, steel cargo beds.
The non-slip surface of a cargo bed liner also offers great protection for commercial vehicles that transport fragile items. This is because the item will not shift around on the surface of the bed, possibly experiencing damage.
3. Abrasion-Resistance
A bed liner provides protection for the longevity of the cargo bed of the industrial vehicle. This will protect your truck bed from the hazards of abrasion that lead to rust, corrosion, and eventual surface failure. If you can, protecting a newer or at least solid cargo bed today will save you the more expensive proposition of having the bed’s steel surface repaired and restored at a later date due to abrasion, corrosion, and rust.
4. Asphalt-Safe
Today, there is a bed liner product that is specifically made to withstand hot asphalt. This particular bed liner product allows you to deliver asphalt in the truck today and gravel tomorrow with ease.
Choosing the right bed liner product applied by a professional installer for your particular commercial truck and commercial trucking application will provide your fleet and employees with a safe and durable product that will promote longevity, ease of use, delivery speed, and efficiency. This will save you money over time with faster delivery times and the enhanced durability of your prized fleet.
