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The Retriever, a revolutionary heavy equipment transport truck bed available from Up-N-Atom Inc., can increase profitability for equipment rental companies, equipment distributors and contractors by allowing more delivered equipment per shift at greatly reduced operating costs.

The Retriever is a patented low-profile truck bed that replaces pick-up trucks with trailers, hydraulic roll-back trucks, hook loaders and frequently semi trailers for hauling heavy industrial equipment. It’s a more profitable alternative for equipment rental companies and equipment dealers; for general, demolition, distribution, drilling and directional boring contractors; for tree and landscape contractors; and more.

The Retriever’s best features are its lightweight and low deck height. The typical heavy, complex, costly-to-maintain and difficult-to-operate hydraulic system has been eliminated as the Retriever uses the truck’s own air system as the power source to raise and lower the patented, curved, hinged deck and bi-fold ramp.

The Retriever was developed by an engineer ing team lead by Joe Simons, a man who endured first-hand the same hauling chal lenges and high truck maintenance costs as the companies he now targets as customers. Simons owned and operated construction and industrial equipment distribution and rental companies for 28 years before bringing the Retriever to market.

“Traditional transport solutions cause problems,” says Simons. “A pick-up with a trailer can’t take continual heavy use. Roll-backs are heavy, expensive, have very high deck heights, require lots of maintenance and have all of the problems associated with hydraulics. Semis are expensive to buy and operate and very frequently oversized for the job, while hook loaders have all of the hydraulic and maintenance issues and you must remove the bed each time you want to load a machine.”