New steering modification lets drivers operate from either side of the cab.

Fontaine Modification Medium & Heavy Truck Operations introduces its Kenworth Premium Sit-Down Dual Drive modification — the only sit-down dual drive (SDDD) conversion available for Kenworth T180, T280, T380 and T480 medium-duty conventional trucks. SDDD modifications like this add a right-hand drive station to the truck, enabling drivers to comfortably operate from either the right or left side for vocational applications like refuse collection, street sweeping and road striping.

Fontaine Modification Medium & Heavy Truck Operations introduces the industry’s first sit-down dual drive (SDDD) modification for the Peterbilt medium-duty conventional truck Models 535, 536, 537 and 548. Fontaine’s new Peterbilt Premium Sit-Down Dual Drive modification adds a right-hand drive station to the cab, enabling drivers to comfortably operate vocational vehicles from either the right or left side.

EV Pulse talks to Dave Brosky, vice president of sales and business development for Fontaine Modification Work & EV Solutions, about Fontaine’s post-production truck modification experience and how it positioned the company to be a leader in heavy-duty vehicle electrification.

Fontaine Modification Medium & Heavy Truck Operations will now install Air-Weigh LoadMaxx on-board scales on a wider range of vehicle applications and suspension types at its nationwide network of modification centers. Installation is seamless to dealers and end-users thanks to Fontaine’s extensive ship-thru agreements with leading truck OEMs.

New sit-down dual drive modification is available for International MV and HV trucks

In the January issue, Trailer/Body Builders explores how Fontaine Modification Work Truck & EV Solutions is helping EV system developers like Optimal EV commercialize their products while looking to the future of zero-emissions vehicles.

Dave Brosky, vice president of sales and business development for Fontaine Modification Work & EV Solutions, talks to Fleet Equipment magazine about how the company is serving as an integrator for Class 4-8 EVs, providing upfront engineering and coordnating with chassis manufacturers and electric powertrain partners, as well as body builders and truck equipment suppliers.

Fontaine Modification is expanding one of its highest-volume and most-efficient truck modification centers. Work has begun on a 40,000 square-foot addition to the existing 27,000-square-foot facility in Laredo, Texas, that services trucks coming from Freightliner and Navistar plants in Mexico.

Fontaine Modification, North America’s most comprehensive provider of post-production truck services, is building a new Charlotte, N.C., corporate headquarters that will more than double its production and product development capabilities. The new facility, home to corporate offices as well as the company’s technical center for new product development and a modification center that serves the Freightliner Mt. Holly production plant, will be nearly three times the size of the current operation. An artist’s rendering of the new facility is shown.

Fontaine Modification Work Truck & EV Solutions has hired Jennifer Sweet as vice president of work truck sales and business development.