Apex Equipment: Case Study

Tim Gandolfo

Director of Operations, Apex
Equipment Sales, Inc., Florida, USA

Apex Equipment sells specialized truck builds across all of the USA. Apex is a manufacturer and registered distributor of hook lift hoists, roll-offs, and grapple trucks and has been in business since 2009, employing over 40 people.

Before TruckScience

Tim Gandolfo is a salesman and new truck specialist at Apex Equipment. He has responsibility for configuring trucks and determining what’s safe to put on the road. Tim’s primary concerns are axle weights, payload, center of gravity, turning radius and rollover stability.

Before trying the TruckScience Axle Weight Calculator, Tim had been using NTEA’s basic WT&CG Spreadsheet and ULTRAMOD. He was looking for built-in validation to flag potential errors, and a graphical epresentation of the build to easily detect mistakes.

Implementing TruckScience

“We implemented the TruckScience Axle Weight Calculator in August 2019, in response to NTEA’s recommendation. I found it really easy to get started with the tool.

The library of vehicles means that 95% of the work is done before I start a calculation. I open a template for the vehicle I’m working on, use the IVD to customize the truck, and can quickly see if what I’ve configured looks right.”

Impact of TruckScience

“The graphical representation is a gamechanger, allowing me to perform sanity checks as I go.

We can take a product that we have in mind. Instead of seeing it in numbers, we can see what it will actually look like.

We can put a really professional proposal on paper within minutes, and we can foresee issues before we run into them on the ground.

All of our customers love it. It helps them to understand what they can and can’t do, and some even use our reports in driver training.”