When the project launched, Harbor Truck Bodies worked with Apex OEM on integrating the BOLT locks into its service bodies. After only 90 days, Harbor was handling the conversion on its own, having redesigned the door linings to accommodate the locks.
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For more than 40 years, Harbor Truck Bodies, with headquarters in Brea, Calif., has offered innovative service-body solutions to fleet managers and independent truck owners across the Pacific Northwest. With a 40,000-square-foot on-site manufacturing facility, Harbor's primary business is the manufacture of service bodies for an array of industries, including utility, construction, plumbing, landscaping and animal control, continually delivering to customers solutions of its own design.


 
Harbor also has long taken pride in developing products for contractors that have helped shape their industries, said national sales manager Warren Mason. Innovations such as gas shocks, stainless steel lids and Teflon???(R)???AE???? glide cargo bed enclosures all originated at Harbor.

"These are all products that were Harbor first," Mason said. "They have become what we like to consider our donations to the industry and now they're industry standards."



A typical problem fleet managers often face is drivers losing or breaking keys, resulting in unnecessary downtime, lost man hours and security issues. But with BOLT technology any number of locks in a series can be coded to a single key. This allows drivers to use a single ignition key to not only lock their vehicle, but their truck cap doors, toolboxes, trailer hitch lock and any other equipment professionals use on a daily basis.


"Harbor learned of the potential to incorporate BOLT locks into its services bodies through Apex OEM, which designs, manufactures and distributes latches and handles with code-able BOLT locks," Mason said. "When it was presented to us, we were excited about it right away."

Coding the key using BOLT technology is effortless as well. When the ignition key is inserted into the lock cylinder spring-loaded plate tumblers are activated that move up and down until they are matched exactly to that key. The first time the key is rotated, the cylinder is uniquely coded to only that key. When the key is removed, the cylinder moves into the locked position. When the key is turned again, it will rotate to the unlocked position. Because the locks are OEM, BOLT locks offer higher quality, security, durability and corrosion resistance.