Service truck bodies in Medicine Hat: strip and recoat before you replace

Service bodies take a beating. Compartments get slammed, decks get loaded, and winter road mix works into every seam. When the paint goes and the rust starts, the question is whether the body is worth saving.

Usually it is sound under there

Most service bodies that look rough are suffering at the surface: failed paint, scale along the seams, rust bubbling at the bottom of compartment doors. Underneath, the steel is often perfectly serviceable. Stripping it back to bare metal and recoating can put the body back in service for a fraction of what a replacement involves.

Where they go first

• Compartment door bottoms and drip edges.
• Inside compartments, where wet gear and tools sit.
• Deck plate and the headache rack.
• Picker and crane mounts, where the coating cracks under load.
• Mounting points to the frame, which hold water.

Blasting is the inspection. Once the paint is off, there is no guessing about what the steel is doing.

Downtime is the real cost

A service truck off the road is a crew not working. We can blast on your yard, and we will time the job around your coater so the body goes from bare steel to primer without sitting around. See why that timing matters.

For contractors and fleets around Medicine Hat's industrial parks, doing several units in rotation keeps trucks working while the bodies get done one at a time — the same approach as running a bin fleet through refurbishment.

Thin sheet gets a lighter touch

Compartment doors and thinner sheet are wet blasted so they do not warp from friction heat. Heavy deck plate and frames are done dry.