- Hi, I'm Walker from Midwest Wheel
out of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Welcome to High Bar University.
(heavy metal music)
- All right, well thank you Walker.
We appreciate
all the distributor sales people watching HBU
on a monthly basis.
And this is our September class.
Alongside Ricks Swenson, I'm Caleb Ostrander.
And Rick, this month, we're talking about a product
that is trending upwards, I guess you would say.
And that is our Fast Flap Mud Flap Hangers.
- Well, that's good, 'cause I'm
kind of crunched for time here.
So let's make this as fast as possible.
- Let's do it.
- Right?
Perfect, perfect product for it.
So,
yeah, no, the Fast Flaps,
obviously, been a great product for us since
we brought the product to the Minimizer line.
And really we're seeing a new trend happening out there.
- Yep, we we've always been popular
obviously, with that vocational market, off-road,
dump trucks, obviously.
We know that it's been a hit there,
but just recently we've found another market
that, it just makes so much sense.
- [Rick] Right, yeah.
The like the 53-foot van trailer.
- [Caleb] Um-hmm, yep.
- [Rick] Any anything over the road.
- [Caleb] Yep.
- Anybody really, using mud flaps is kinda
what we're finding out.
(laughs) - Anyone.
- Really, we're really seeing some of the the largest fleets
in the world.
- [Caleb] Yes.
- [Rick] Changing over to the Fast Flaps now.
And, the reason that is,
and these people don't just wake up in the morning
and say, hey, how can I spend money?
- Right.
- They're looking, how can we save money?
And how can we make money.
- It's all about the bottom line, yep.
- It really is.
And they're finding a great resource
in the Fast Flaps because of the fact
that they're, each one of those van trailers has
basically angle iron behind the wheels.
- Yep.
- Has a flap hanging down
and they're getting those flaps run over
under different conditions, whether it's over curbs or,
- [Caleb] Yep.
- [Rick] Things are getting bent.
Some are running, maybe cheaper mud flap hangers
and they're seeing those get bent down.
- [Caleb] Yep.
- And once that flap gets brought underneath
that tire,
- That angle iron.
- Whatever hanging to it is gonna go with it.
- Yep.
- And if you have galvanized parts, especially,.
- Yep.
- That's gonna spring that, it's gonna crack it,
that galvanization is gonna rust,
and then everything is gonna have to be replaced
after a period of time.
And really this is costing a lot of money.
- It is, it is.
In terms of parts in terms of shop time.
- Right.
- And when you mentioned the fleets that are
that are now specing this product,
I mean we're talking about companies
that have tens of thousands of trucks and trailers
and they're realizing the value that this product has.
- Absolutely, and they're certainly seeing a lot
of value from it, but I mean,
whether you run 5,000 trailers or you run five trailers,
- Right.
- Anytime that you can save time
and money and keeping that trailer on the road,
which is the most important thing, right?
- Yes.
- I mean you think of somebody who has 5,000 trailers,
for instance, well they got a lot of other ones to back up.
Well somebody who runs five trailers,
- Right.
- They don't have that luxury oftentimes.
- Yes.
- And so that is really costing them on their bottom line.
And so you take a product that,
first of all is so easy to install.
- Um-hmm, yes.
- [Rick] I mean, we have a brand new install video
on the training resource site and our regular website,
- [Caleb] Um-hmm.
- [Rick] That shows, this is one of the engineers
that's never put this product on before.
We didn't bring in a stunt double for this, right?
(laughs)
- [Rick] I mean,
- [Caleb] No experience, right?
- [Rick] This is one of our actual engineers.
First time that he's put it on,
opening the packaging,
- [Caleb] Everything.
- [Rick] Everything that was done with it.
I mean, it took about 10 minutes.
- [Caleb] Yes.
- [Rick] And so after that, you're set and ready to go.
- And it's important because a lot of these,
I mean these companies that are specing
this product are not only putting it on new trailers,
but they're also retrofitting trailers, too.
- Absolutely.
- And that, like you said,
that's a time investment, but really it's not
that much time per truck or per trailer,
depending on the application.
- Well, if they already have flaps on the trailer,
- Right.
- Which everybody does, obviously.
- Yep.
- I mean the Fast Flaps fit right
into the mounting holes,
- Right.
- Of whatever that flap is being held onto currently.
Now we, we have two different options that you can do.
You can buy just the Fast Flap brackets themselves.
- [Caleb] Right, yep.
- [Rick] That's 10001563, is that part number.
- [Caleb] Um-hmm.
- [Rick] And that'll give you four
of the fast flat brackets themselves.
It gives you the hardware for it
and the conspicuity tape of course.
- [Caleb] Yep, sure.
- [Rick] And then we also have the hanger as well.
- [Caleb] Right.
- [Rick] So if you, a lot of semi trucks
as well as some of the trailers out there,
maybe they wanna put on the actual hanger itself,
- [Caleb] Yep.
- Which is a great part.
And that that's 10001460 on that part number.
And you get two of the powder-coated black metal hangers
for that as well.
- Well, so basically if you know any fleets
in your neighborhood,
you might wanna talk to 'em about Fast Flaps,
is really what this comes down to.
- It really is, yeah.
- And I mean, you shot a great video about this.
- That's true. Here recently.
- Yes, we did.
- Do you want show your, show it off?
- I know you love to cue it up, go for it.
- Let's hit it.
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- [Caleb] Major fleets are recognizing the savings
in running Minimizer Fast Flaps.
These mud flat brackets install quickly
and prevent serious damage to a company's equipment.
(metal scrapes)
Torn mud flaps are nothing new
and not only do Fast Flaps eliminate the issue,
they also stop costly accidents
that do major damage to the mud flap brackets
and the galvanized back end of a trailer.
(tires pounding)
Fast Flaps are composed of heat-treated spring steel,
and it takes more than 500 pounds of force
to detach a mud flap from the Fast Flaps bracket.
This product works perfectly on both trucks
and trailers to prevent torn mud flaps
and damaged equipment, eliminate shop time
and improve the bottom line.
To learn more, visit Minimizer.com.
Well, there you go.
That's how this product acts on a 53-foot van trailer.
It shows the damage that can be done
if you're not running Fast Flaps.
- Great job on that.
- Thank you.
- Yeah, so really, moral of the story is,
I mean no matter what you're running,
whether it's off-road, whether it's vocational,
on a Class Eight truck,
- [Caleb] Right.
- With bad mud flap hangers,
whether you're on a van trailer,
if you're running mud flaps,
this is definitely the way to go, so.
- This is the product for you.
- Yeah, definitely want to get ahold
of your purchasing manager,
- Yep.
- Get ahold of one of our regional managers
or call our customer service,
and make sure that you have Fast Flaps on hand
and in stock because people
should be grabbing these things up.
- Rick, we appreciate the time, sir.
Thanks so much.
- Always a pleasure.