# Construction Companies > Job site damage, fabrication and body work built to take the same abuse again once the truck goes back out. Source: https://ocrv.info/who-we-help/construction-companies Construction companies operate trucks that work rather than merely travel. Damage arrives from job sites, loading, tool storage and terrain rather than from traffic, and the repairs needed lean toward fabrication, body and rack reconstruction and structural work that will survive being used the same way again. A construction truck is equipment. It gets loaded past comfortable, driven across surfaces that were not roads that morning, backed into by other equipment, and asked to carry racks and boxes that were bolted on years ago by somebody who is no longer with the company. The damage reflects all of that, and repairing it to a passenger car standard misses the point entirely. These trucks go straight back to the same job site. The useful question on this work is never only how to fix the damage. It is how to fix the damage so the same failure does not recur next quarter. A rack that tore its mounts will tear them again unless the load path changes. A body that cracked at a corner will crack again unless the stress concentration is addressed. We build for the second failure, not just the first. Work is performed in shop at Yorba Linda, roughly twenty miles from Eastvale by SR-71 and SR-91, with welding, fabrication, panel, structural and paint capability under one roof. Contractors across Riverside County send trucks in on both scheduled and incident basis, and long lead items are ordered against a realistic date rather than an optimistic one. Crews plan around a truck being back, so a date that holds is worth considerably more than a date that sounded good at authorization. ## What this group needs - Repairs designed to survive the same use again - Fabrication and welding capability in house - Corrosion protection treated as standard, not optional - Phased work so trucks return to service sooner - Custom storage built to the crew's actual load - Realistic dating on long lead body components ## Damage That Comes From the Job Site Job site damage concentrates low and rearward. Bumpers, rear corners, tailgates, dump body edges, flatbed decks and the entire lower third of any panel take strikes from equipment, material and terrain. Overhead damage from booms, buckets and low structures makes up most of the rest. It is heavier and more localized than road damage, and it frequently involves deformation of structure rather than only of skin. Filling over a deformed member is a temporary result. Rust follows quickly on this category because bare metal gets exposed constantly and nobody has time to notice. Corrosion protection is therefore written as a real operation on every repair rather than treated as an optional finishing step. Weld through primer, seam sealer and cavity treatment cost very little at the time and determine whether a repaired panel lasts five years or eighteen months. On a working truck that difference is the entire economics of the repair. ## Bodies, Racks and Storage That Take Abuse Ladder racks, tool boxes, headache racks and custom storage systems fail at their mounts far more often than in the structure itself. A rack that puts all its load into four points on a bed rail will eventually elongate those holes or crack the rail. Our fabrication approach spreads load into structure, avoids abrupt section changes where stress concentrates, and gussets where geometry actually requires it rather than where it looks reassuring. Custom storage is a substantial part of this work. Contractors know what they need to carry and rarely find it in a catalog. Building it in house means the mounting, the material and the finish are all considered together, and the storage system gets integrated into the truck rather than bolted onto it. Fabrication bands run from the mid hundreds through five figures depending on the scope. Fabrication bills against the posted body rate. Body reconstruction on service bodies, flatbeds and dump bodies is conventional heavy work performed properly: sound material located, failed material removed, replacement joined to suit the base metal, and the whole repair photographed before it gets closed or painted. Where a body has been repaired repeatedly in the same location, we will say when replacement is the better economic answer rather than repairing it again. That advice occasionally costs us a job and it remains the correct call. - Rack and box mounts redesigned to spread load into structure - Corrosion protection written as a real line on every repair - Service body, flatbed and dump body reconstruction - Custom storage built and integrated rather than bolted on - Honest advice when replacement beats a fourth repair ## Keeping the Crew Working While a Truck Is Down A down truck is a down crew, and that cost dwarfs the repair invoice. We date completion realistically at authorization and we say at intake whether a job can be split so the truck goes back to work between phases. Sometimes it can: get the structure sound and the truck usable now, schedule the cosmetic and fabrication work into a slower week later. A truck earning while it waits for cosmetic work beats a perfect truck sitting in a bay. Scheduled work beats emergency work on price and on availability. Paint refresh, accumulated dent repair, rack rebuilds and storage upgrades all fit better into planned slots. Contractors who bring a truck in during a quiet period get better dates than the same truck arriving unannounced during a busy one, and the work costs the same either way. The only variable a contractor controls in that equation is notice, and notice costs nothing to give. ## Frequently asked questions ### My ladder rack keeps tearing its mounts. Can you fix that permanently? We can change why it is failing, which is the more useful outcome. Mount failures almost always mean load is concentrating into too few points or into a structure that cannot take it. We look at where the load enters, spread it into something that can carry it, and rebuild the mount accordingly rather than simply rewelding the same geometry. ### Do you repair dump bodies and flatbed decks? Yes. Deck, body and structural reconstruction is conventional heavy work: locate sound material, remove what has failed, join replacement to suit the base metal, restore corrosion protection and photograph everything before it is closed or painted. Where a body has been repaired repeatedly in the same location we will tell you when replacement is the better economic call. ### Can I get the truck back before all the work is finished? Often. Where a job splits cleanly we make the truck structurally sound and usable first, then schedule the cosmetic and fabrication portions into a later slot. Not every job divides that way, and we will say so at intake rather than after you have planned around it. A down truck is a down crew and we treat that as part of the cost. ### Can you build custom storage for our specific tools? Yes, and building it here means the mounting, the material and the finish are considered together rather than bolted on afterward. Bring the actual load and the actual truck. Custom storage sits in a defined price band, fabrication bills against the posted body rate, and we design the mounting to spread load into structure rather than into a bed rail. --- OCRV Center. 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. info@ocrvcenter.com. Serving Eastvale, California in Riverside County, about 20 miles from the shop. All work is performed in shop at the Yorba Linda facility. No mobile, roadside or on-site service is offered. Scope is body, paint, structural, fiberglass, interior and vehicle systems work. Engine rebuilds, transmission rebuilds, drivetrain work, DOT inspections and emission testing are not performed.