What you should ask when ordering an FUP, FUPS or FUPD Bullbar.

First a little history……
The FUPD as one of the requirements to run legal 26 meter are based on ECE (European) standard where most trucks already comply out of the factory, and bull bars aren’t a big deal.

Adoption to Australian trucking got a bit more complicated for bull bar manufacturers (and truck manufacturers). The task of building a bull bar that meets a European standard for trucks that don’t exist in Europe and were never designed to have bull bars has had its challenges.

Different states in Australia have their own slant on the way to read the rules, and enforcement officers trying to keep everyone on the same legal length page have kept it interesting.

Enormous amounts of work have gone on behind the scenes to try to get a workable solution by Australian trucking industry bodies. Go to the links on our site to get more detail.

The main things to be sure of when laying down your hard earned cash for a FUP are:

1. 
   The testing has been done on the chassis of the vehicle. For example, the truck is a Freightliner Argosy or Kenworth K104 where the FUPD is mounted to the spring mount casting as most bull bars do. The engineer must do a physical test using that casting on the chassis for that FUP, each truck model has to be tested.
2. 
   A recognised engineer must witness the test and the test must be able to be reproduced.
3. 
   The platting system used is compliant with the new system introduced in March 2006.