Custom Upfitting Solutions

Enhance your truck’s efficiency with custom upfitting by Royal Truck & Utility Trailer.



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Products

Truck Storage

Consider custom upfitting your truck with storage boxes to increase efficiency at worksites. They protect your valuable assets like tools and the upfit process can customize them to fit any truck size perfectly. They are both durable and lightweight.

Truck Caps & Storage

These custom upfits optimize your truck with heightened security, safety, and storage capacity. With protection from the harsh environment and theft, when you invest in this option, you reduce the wear and tear on your truck while simultaneously improving fuel efficiency.

Temperature Controlled Delivery

With the power to cool and insulate diverse trucks, this van upfit helps your cargo arrive in optimal condition. No matter the climate control your goods require, these easily accessible upfits streamline the shipping process.

Oversized Product Storage

Companies that ship oversized products require unique storage solutions. Our upfitting service can install stake, ladder, and overhead racks to optimize your van’s space in the most challenging shipping situations. We customize according to your needs.

Snow Removal

If you don’t want winter slowing down your productivity, consider snow removal upfitting services. This includes salt spreaders, plows, and wet kits. From pouring sleet to low-visibility blizzards, we can help you persist through bad weather.

Cargo Access

You know the danger of improperly loading and unloading cargo. With cargo access accessories like ramps and liftgates, you’ll never worry about damage or injury when handling your goods. These tools also optimize efficiency.

Handicap Accessibility

If you’re in the business of transporting passengers, you need handicap-accessible options that improve customer experience. Our accessibility options include configurable seating, lifts, ramps, and more. You’ll efficiently accommodate the needs of every passenger.

Roof Storage

If you want to maximize your space, consider utilizing roof storage. This allows you to safely transport your equipment and keep your more vulnerable cargo protected in your van or truck. You won’t lose any ease of access.

Truck Mounted Equipment

When you can outfit your trucks with a wide variety of equipment, you enable your employees to adjust to any type of work. Our truck-mounted equipment options include cranes, bucket lifts, hanging steps, generators, and more.

Ladder Storage

Carrying a ladder helps you adapt to many situations, so you need a secure method of transporting them. With nearly unlimited options for ladder racks, we’ll help you choose the right option based on your vehicle type and projected usage.

Box Truck Options

The right cargo van upfitting can increase the efficiency with which your employees can complete their work. A van’s accessibility, weight capacity, and storage layout significantly affect productivity. We’ll help you create the perfect storage solutions.

Van Partitions & Bulkheads

Custom upfitting, known as a bulkhead or partition, is a small investment that provides considerable benefits. Use them to improve climate control, noise reduction, organization, and safety. Choose from among different styles and materials.

Dump Bodies

Don’t underestimate the importance of choosing the right dump body in optimizing your daily operations and efficiency. We offer multiple sizes of drop-side, fixed-side, and heavy drop-side dump bodies and customize them to meet your needs.

Truck & Van Accessories

Truck and van upfitters that implement accessories can fine-tune and optimize how you use them. Accessories include workbenches, storage, and equipment that can make your vehicle viable for use in multiple industries. No matter the industry standards, we can help you meet them.

Service Bodies

Service bodies maximize the space on your truck and help your vehicle work as hard as you. Depending on your industry and needs, we can upfit your service body with bucket lifts, secure cabinets, stairs, and more.

Work Truck & Storage Systems

Shelving systems offer an excellent way to obtain the best storage layout for your vehicle. With the right layout and organization, you’ll know exactly where everything is and never lose a second looking for what you need.

Inventory Management

Inventory management helps everyone on your team know exactly where to reach when they need a tool or piece of equipment. From transparent storage solutions to barcode scanning systems, we help you perform at peak efficiency.

Pest Control Equipment

If you’re in the pest control industry, you know storing and transporting the chemicals and equipment requires special attention to detail. Our team can help you perfect your vehicle’s storage solutions for the perfect balance of safety, access, and convenience.

Flooring

Did you know you can outfit your van with different flooring? You should account for the type of work you do, the amount of wear and tear your flooring experience, and the weight requirements for your vehicle.

Municipal Snow Control

If you’re in charge of a city’s snow removal, you know how much your citizens depend on you. We can outfit your vehicles with everything they require to conquer even the most intense winter weather.

Cargo Sliders

Cargo sliders improve accessibility and prevent both minor and major injuries associated with unloading cargo. They create the opportunity for easy organization and save your whole team time and effort. They work for all forms of equipment.

Cranes

When you outfit your truck with a crane, you increase its utility and the variety of situations you can use it for. We offer cranes for classes four to seven and can outfit them with generators, pullout drawers, and remote locks.

Overhead Product Racks

When you can use every inch of space in your vehicle, you’ll know you have the tools you need for every job. Overhead product racks help you store and transport oversized products without sacrificing space for tools and equipment.

Flatbed Bodies

Our flatbed bodies have integrated bulkheads that taber and stake rack pockets. The flatbed’s center access door houses a gooseneck hitch that empowers exceptional towing. We craft the bodies from premium, durable materials.

Open Service Body

With an open service body, you can create the perfect storage space with a combination of open cabinets, shelving, and overhead storage for large items. We craft the body with your exact needs in mind so it’s always a perfect fit.

Closed Service Body

If you like the idea of a service body but need more security or protection from the elements, a closed service body is the perfect fit. Though they’re closed on top, they still offer easy access and organization.

Mechanics Trucks

As a mechanic, you know you need a wide variety of tools to meet the diverse needs of your clients. Specially outfitted mechanic trucks offer superior organization and ample storage for all your tools and equipment, regardless of size.

Welders

From gloves and helmets to your largest welding equipment, when your truck has the right storage options, you can move from site to site without issue. Our custom storage upfits for welders help you stay efficient and organized on the go.

Air Compressors, Generators, & Welders

Adding utility accessories, like toolboxes, generators, air compressors, and welders, helps you meet a wide array of needs and even provides service for multiple industries. No matter your needs, we’ll find a utility accessory that can meet them.


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Industries

Service Contractor

As a service contractor, you must constantly adapt to the needs of the job. With a custom upfit, you’ll have everything you need to boost your productivity and efficiency while maintaining safety and organization.

Whether you’re an HVAC technician, plumber, or electrician, we can craft you the perfect van. We find compact, cutaway, high-roof, and pickup vehicles provide optimal results for service contractors. The upfits you’ll benefit from most include inventory management, cargo sliders, oversized product storage, service bodies, and more.


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Municipalities

When you work for a municipality, you must accommodate a wide range of needs, including construction, animal control, and transportation. We can help you outfit your entire fleet in a way that enables you to provide any possible service.

With a compact or standard cargo van upfitting, you can implement enough custom upfits to obtain a comprehensive and flexible fleet. We find municipalities benefit most from dump bodies, handicap accessibility, ladder storage, snow control and removal, storage for oversized products, and caps and toppers.


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Plumbing Truck & Vans

Plumbers must remain ready to respond to emergencies at a moment’s notice, and they must carry everything they need to complete any job. We usually suggest plumbers prioritize organization and inventory management.

A wide variety of vehicles can work well for plumbers, including compact, cutaway, high-roof, or standard cargo vans and pickup trucks. In addition to the right type of flooring for your vehicle, you’ll need ladder storage, the right accessories, partitions or bulkheads, and possibly caps and toppers.


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Food & Beverage

If you transport food and beverages, you need a vehicle that can keep your products secure, dry, and at the correct temperature. We can outfit you with the best vehicles so you don’t rely on a third party to transport your goods.

We suggest outfitting a high-roof van or cab forward as they provide the best function for food transportation. We’ll make temperature-controlled delivery our primary priority, but you’ll also benefit from perfect cargo access and inventory management.


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Pest Control Truck & Vans

Upfitting vans for pest control purposes requires considerable attention to detail as you deal with potentially volatile chemicals and equipment. We can make sure you have safe and easy access to all your equipment so you never lose a moment looking for what you need.

You can use a variety of vehicles for pest control, including compact, cutaway, and standard cargo vans or a pickup truck. We suggest you prioritize ladder storage, proper flooring, and toppers and caps.


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HVAC

Custom upfitting HVAC vehicles can help your complete jobs faster and without needing to call company headquarters for additional equipment. We’ll help you craft the perfect inventory management so you always know where to find what you need.

You can use almost any van or pickup truck for your HVAC business. The most useful customizations for HVAC providers include inventory management systems, ladder storage, accessories, van partitions, flooring options, and storage systems. We’ll spend time learning exactly what you need to craft the perfect solution.


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Vents

If you provide cleaning for vents and ducts, you have a lot of special equipment you must transport securely. You’ll also need easy access to all your equipment so you don’t lose time or risk injury.

Whether you have a compact van, a standard cargo van, or a pickup truck, we’ll provide you with the perfect solution. We’ll prioritize inventory management, ladder storage, and truck toppers, but you remain in complete control of the accessories you need.


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Mobility

If you transport a lot of people, such as running a shuttle from an airport, you need a handicap-accessible vehicle so you never have to turn away customers. A pickup truck doesn’t work well for this business, so you’ll benefit most from a high-roof, compact, or cutaway van.

We offer a wide range of accessibility solutions. We find most mobility companies benefit from adjustable seats that can swivel, ramps or lifts to allow vehicle entry, and lowered floors or raised roofs.


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Windows

Delivering windows requires exceptional finesse as even a large pothole in the road can ruin your cargo. We can devise the perfect solution so your windows stay upright and intact.

If you’re still creating your fleet, we suggest you use a compact van, high-roof van, standard cargo van, or pickup truck.

To protect your cargo while also storing all your tools and equipment, we’ll help you create the best inventory management system, ladder storage, oversized product storage, and van bulkheads.


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Grounds Management

When you provide grounds management, you rely on your employees to work both efficiently and safely, no matter the client’s request or the weather conditions. We can outfit your entire fleet to meet every potential ground management need.

Pickup truck and cargo van upfitters can provide everything you need for your business if you integrate the best upfits. You’ll love how well our dump bodies, ladder storage solutions, snow control and removal accessories, and oversized product storage customizations help you excel at your work.


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Janitorial

Whether you service commercial, residential, or industrial clients, your service providers require various tools and supplies to address your customer’s concerns. Whether you have a single vehicle or an entire fleet, we’ll outfit it to handle all your needs.

We’ll increase your efficiency and safety with inventory management, storage solutions, vehicle accessories, and partitions or bulkheads. Whether you have a type of van or a pickup truck, you can turn your vehicle into your most valuable resource.


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Telecom

Telecom services help people across all walks of life stay connected and thrive. When you go the extra mile to equip your fleet, you can help your community communicate no matter the technical obstacles.

There’s no limit to the type of service vehicles you can use for a telecom business, provided it has the space you need. You’ll need a wide variety of solutions including inventory management, storage for ladders, tools, and oversized products, truck-mounted equipment, and easy access so you never spend time looking for what you need.


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Delivery

No matter what type of product you deliver, you need ample storage that keeps your cargo from shifting during transit. With our help, you can create the perfect solutions for all your transportation needs.

For your fleet, consider a compact, high roof, standard cargo van, a cab and chassis, or a cab forward vehicle. You’ll benefit the most from improved cargo access, oversized product and ladder storage, partitions, bulkheads, and box truck options.


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Landscaping

Landscaping companies have special custom upfitting requirements, but when you create the perfect vehicle, you’ll see a rise in your productivity and customer satisfaction. You’ll likely need multiple vehicles to do everything from hauling gravel to transporting your equipment.

What upfits provide the most benefits for your pickup truck or high-roof van? Most landscapers prefer snow removal and control options, dump bodies, oversized product storage, and solutions for storing ladders.


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Anthony Sciara

Chief Legal Officer 

Anthony Sciara is our Chief Legal Officer, Corporate Secretary, and a Member of our Board of Directors. He has been a licensed attorney for nearly 15 years. Anthony earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Eastern Michigan University in 2002 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois (Chicago) Law School in 2006. Anthony represented the company for eight years as outside counsel before formally joining the team in October of 2019. Anthony handles and/or supervises all legal and compliance matters for the company, including executive strategy, corporate transactions, and dispute resolution. In addition to his responsibilities with the company, Anthony serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Northville Educational Foundation, participates in the Association of Corporate Counsel, and was previously an Adjunct Professor of Lawyering Skills at the University of Illinois (Chicago) Law School. Anthony is most proud that his position allows him the opportunity to solve problems for us in creative ways, which minimizes risk and maximizes success. The thing Anthony loves most about being part of Royal Truck & Utility Trailer is the sincere and uncommon passion that ownership, leadership, and other employees share for the success of the company. 

Julie Igielski

Chief Financial Officer 

Julie Igielski is the Chief Financial Officer at Royal Truck & Utility Trailer. Julie attended Michigan State University and earned her Bachelor’s in Merchandise Management in 2004 before attending Eastern Michigan University to get a Master’s degree in Accounting. After graduating with her MSA, she received her Certified Public Accountant license. Prior to joining the Royal team in 2013, Julie held various accounting positions at both publicly and privately owned companies. Since deciding to continue on in the family business nearly 8 years ago, she has helped us accomplish so much. Julie is in charge of all of our finances, creates all of our financial statements, works closely with our CEO and COO when making executive decisions, and works with the bank when acquiring new properties and companies. She is most proud of her CPA license and all of the growth and success she has helped Royal achieve. The thing she loves most about her job is being able to work with her family and her co-workers who have become her family over the years. We are so happy that Julie decided to join the team, we are so appreciative of all she does for us every day. 

Adam Pigeon

Chief Operating Officer 

Adam Pigeon is the Chief Operating Officer here at Royal Truck & Utility Trailer. Adam joined the team in 2009 after graduating from Eastern Michigan University with a Bachelors of Science in 2008. He first joined us as a Parts Counter Representative and advanced to Parts Purchasing Manager. Adam was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in January of 2015 and under his leadership we have seen such tremendous growth. Adam is tasked with overseeing all of our day to day operations between all four facilities and works closely with Corporate Officers, Department VPs, and Directors to implement the company’s strategic plan. When asked about his favorite part about being a part of Royal Truck & Trailer, he shared that he loves the people he works with every day. Something Adam takes pride in is all of the company growth that he has helped achieve over his time at Royal. With over 10 years experience, he has become knowledgeable about the industry and strengthened his skills in operations management, leadership, team building, and contract negotiation. Adam has served on multiple industry advisory and councils and boards. Adam is such an asset to our company and we are so proud of everything he has accomplished during his time with us at Royal Truck & Trailer. 

Ken Bumgardner

Chief Executive Officer

Ken Bumgardner is the CEO of Royal Truck & Utility Trailer. Ken is an extremely hardworking individual with interpersonal and problem-solving skills. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Business Management in 2001. Ken has been with the company since he was 12 years old, he was always helping out at the shop to spend time with his dad before joining the team full time in 2001. Before becoming our current CEO, he has held various positions working his way up in the company, such as: cleaner, parts runner, parts counter, parts manager, trailer salesman, office manager, vice president, and president. Ken wanted to join the family business because of his very close relationship with his family, and he loved working with and spending time with his dad. On a daily basis, he is in charge of merger and acquisitions and overseeing our C-level executives. In addition to these responsibilities, Ken also makes sure everyone at Royal is happy in their roles; he thoroughly enjoys working with all of the members of our team. Something he is very proud of is the acquisition of East Michigan Trailer Sales in 2017 because of how it has impacted the dynamic of Royal. He is on the Board of The National Trailer Association and formerly was on the Board of The Michigan Trucking Association. Under Ken’s leadership, we have accomplished great new highs and cannot wait to see what else we can accomplish in the future. 

Ken Bumgardner

Chief Executive Officer

Ken Bumgardner is the CEO of Royal Truck & Utility Trailer. Ken is an extremely hardworking individual with interpersonal and problem-solving skills. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Business Management in 2001. Ken has been with the company since he was 12 years old, he was always helping out at the shop to spend time with his dad before joining the team full time in 2001. Before becoming our current CEO, he has held various positions working his way up in the company, such as: cleaner, parts runner, parts counter, parts manager, trailer salesman, office manager, vice president, and president. Ken wanted to join the family business because of his very close relationship with his family, and he loved working with and spending time with his dad. On a daily basis, he is in charge of merger and acquisitions and overseeing our C-level executives. In addition to these responsibilities, Ken also makes sure everyone at Royal is happy in their roles; he thoroughly enjoys working with all of the members of our team. Something he is very proud of is the acquisition of East Michigan Trailer Sales in 2017 because of how it has impacted the dynamic of Royal. He is on the Board of The National Trailer Association and formerly was on the Board of The Michigan Trucking Association. Under Ken’s leadership, we have accomplished great new highs and cannot wait to see what else we can accomplish in the future.