Utility introduces lighter-weight 4000A flatbed trailer

The Utility 4000A is 400 pounds lighter than the company's model 2000A. (Courtesy Utility Manufacturing Co.)

The Trucker Staff

3/27/2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Utility Trailer Manufacturing today revealed its newest flatbed model, the 4000A.

Craig Bennett, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, told reporters at a news conference at the Mid-America Trucking Show here, that the new flatbed uses the same proven one-piece plasma-cut main beam that gave the company’s model 2000A a “legacy of quality.”

However, he noted, the new model is “stronger and 400 pounds lighter than its predecessor.”

Bennett said the highest strength, lowest weight flatbed ever built by Utility, has the equal strength of the 2000A, including an 80,000 pound distributed load beam rating.

“The new optimized design of the 4000A is stronger because of a newly designed 80,000 psi high tensile steel, had-shaped main mean top flange.

“And it is more durable and reliable than the 2000A based on a series of both static and dynamic component testing to real-world torture track tests at Utility’s test research and development facility in Southern California.

For more information, go to www.utilitytrailer.com.