Vehicle Type
Flatbeds and Stake Bodies
Overview
Flatbeds and Stake Bodies in a Irvine fleet
Flat decks take direct abuse. Loads are dropped on them, chained down hard, and dragged across them, and the deck surface is a consumable in a way an enclosed body is not.
Stake pockets and tie-down points are the components that fail most often, usually because a load was secured to a point that was never rated for that force. Rebuilding those properly, mounted into the deck frame rather than the deck surface, is a large share of the flatbed work we do.
The hidden problem is corrosion under the decking, where water sits between the boards and the steel frame. It is invisible until the deck comes up, which is why a deck replacement so often turns into frame repair as well.
Common Damage
What typically fails on this class
- Deck board rot and plate damage from loading
- Bent or torn stake pockets
- Headboard and cab guard damage from load shift
- Deck frame cracks under repeated overload
- Corrosion under decking at the frame interface
Services
Work we do on this vehicle type
Makes and Models
Units in this class
- Steel and aluminum flatbeds
- Stake bodies
- Landscape bodies
- Step deck and drop deck
- Equipment hauler decks
Flatbeds and Stake Bodies repair for Irvine operators
Body, paint, structural and upfit work, all performed at our Yorba Linda facility. Tell us the vehicle and the damage and we will schedule intake.