Many people choose steel service bodies for their trucks,
but not all steel is the same. If you run a service with your truck, you'll
need a steel service body that can handle everything your business throws at
it. When looking for a steel service body, you should put serious thought into
truck bodies that consist of galvanneal steel.
The Major Shortcomings of Other Types of Truck Body Steel
When your business relies on your truck's service body, you
must take several different things into consideration. For example, you will
need to consider:
- The
quality of service your truck body provides
- The
level of efficiency the truck body offers
- The
advertising or marketing prospects your service body can help with
- The
longevity of your service body
Typical steel truck bodies can sometimes falter when it
comes to these things.
A long complaint of lesser steel service body offerings
comes from the fact the steel can corrode quickly and requires a lot of
maintenance. That quick corrosion can ruin the quality and efficiency of the
service body quickly.
The corrosion can also eat away your paint job or graphics
quickly. Exposure to the elements only serves to speed up deterioration.
Basically, all those considerations you put into your service body can fall
away in rust, or eat at your funding as you constantly try to prevent that
corrosion from doing too much damage.
Enter Galvanized Steel
Manufacturers tried to combat some of these issues by
galvanizing the steel. Galvanization involves applying a zinc coating to metal.
The zinc helps to slow down corrosion, cut back on maintenance frequency, and
generally increase the lifespan of the service body.
Galvanized steel service bodies can serve you well, but
there are some caveats that come with it. The galvanization process only adds a
thin layer of zinc to protect the metal beneath. This means a lot of the
protection offered by galvanized steel comes from the finish laid on top of it,
rather than from the steel itself.
Once corrosion penetrates the finish and the zinc, it will
start working on the metal beneath. Galvanized steel buys you a lot more by way
of longevity, but it still isn't the best option when it comes to dealing with
heavy outside use and the elements.
In addition, galvanized steel doesn't hold paint well. The type
of finish laid on the truck body can sometimes help with maintaining your
marketing or advertising messages. Unfortunately, it's usually the coating that
eventually makes it hard for paints to stick. The paint will lose adhesion
quickly because the coating isn't designed to hold paint; it's designed to
prevent rust.
The Major Improvements of Galvanneal Truck Body Steel
Galvanneal steel is a variation of galvanized steel. Don't
let the names confuse you. Galvanneal steel is galvanized steel taken one step
further, which is what makes it the superior type of steel for many truck
bodies. After the zinc coating process, the steel goes through an annealing
process, hence its name.
Annealing the metal causes the zinc to form bonds with the
metal instead of simply coating it. In this way, the protection of the zinc
becomes part of the metal itself. To put that in perspective, galvanized steel
has a soft zinc surface that's easily scratched or damaged. Galvanneal steel
forms a hard zinc-iron surface.
Galvanneal steel offers a permanent shield with very high
levels of corrosion protection. In addition, painting and graphics on the
surface of galvanneal will last for a long time. The surface of galvanneal
steel actually helps hold paint in place. Those same properties mean coatings,
such as powder and other coat finishes, will also adhere better and last
longer.
A galvanneal
steel service body
from Diamond Truck Body Manufacturing will give you the
return on your investment that you're looking for. If you need a high-quality
steel service body for your business, contact us today.
