Fleet and Commercial Body
Commercial Truck Cab Body Repair, Doors, Hoods, Fenders and Bumpers
Typical range
$750 to $12,000
Shop hours
5 to 60
Labor rate
$210/hr
The short answer
Cab body repair addresses door, hood, fender, bumper, mirror, and step damage on a commercial cab without opening up a full collision job. Work runs $750 to $12,000, or 5 to 60 hours at $210 per hour plus parts and paint materials. Body and paint only.
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What this work actually involves
Cabs get chewed up from the sides. Mirror arms clipped in Downtown LA alleys, doors creased on dock bollards, fenders scraped on container corner castings in the Long Beach and Carson drayage yards, steps folded under by a curb in a Riverside industrial park. None of it stops the truck, which is exactly the problem. Fleets let cab damage stack until a driver refuses the unit or a roadway inspection flags a broken step or a missing mirror, and by then you are fixing four things at once on a unit you needed running.
Material dictates the repair. A steel cab door on a Ram or Ford chassis is metalwork and a blend. A fiberglass tilt hood on a cabover cracks at the hinge boss and along the wheel arch, and the correct fix is grinding to a taper and laminating rather than filling, because filler over a flexing hood telegraphs back through the paint by the second summer. Aluminum cab skins on late chassis need isolated fasteners and their own repair procedure, since steel hardware in an aluminum panel corrodes galvanically within a year in coastal air.
The other half of the job is paint. Fleet white is not one color, and a cab panel sprayed to a code without a spray-out card will read gray next to a five-year-old door. We match against the actual panel under multiple light sources, blend into adjacent panels, and record the formula so the next unit in your fleet gets the same result. In shop body, paint, and structural work only. No engine, drivetrain, or DOT inspection work.
Location: All work is performed at our Yorba Linda facility. We do not offer mobile, roadside, or fleet route service.
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What the job includes
- Cab door skin and shell repair, replacement, hinge rebuild, and sag correction
- Fiberglass tilt hood crack repair, laminated at the hinge boss and wheel arch
- Steel, aluminum, and fiberglass fender repair and replacement
- Front and rear bumper repair, straightening, and replacement including ICC bumpers
- Grille, headlight bezel, and air deflector replacement and refit
- Mirror arm, bracket, and mounting repair with vibration correction
- Entry step, grab handle, and cab corner step box replacement
- Cab corner and rocker rust cut-out, patch panel fabrication, and coating
- Door hardware, latch, striker, and window regulator alignment
- Refinish, blend into adjacent panels, and fleet lettering reinstatement
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When you need this service
- A door that has dropped on its hinge and has to be lifted to latch
- A crack radiating from the hinge boss or wheel arch of a fiberglass hood
- A mirror that shakes at freeway speed after a strike, even if it looks straight
- A front bumper pushed back far enough to touch the grille or a headlight
- Bubbling paint along the cab corner or rocker, usually on a coastal-based unit
- A folded entry step or missing grab handle that a driver has written up
- A hood that no longer closes evenly or requires force at one latch
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How we do it, step by step
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Damage survey by panel
Every damaged panel logged separately with a repair or replace call and a price on each, so your fleet manager can authorize some items now and defer others.
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Substrate identification
Steel, aluminum, and fiberglass all get different procedures. We confirm what the panel is before choosing a repair method, because the wrong method fails in one season.
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Parts sourcing against downtime
We check availability and lead time before disassembly. If a hood is six weeks out, you decide whether to repair the original or park the unit, before it is torn down.
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Metal, laminate, or panel replacement
Steel worked and finished, fiberglass ground to a taper and laminated with the correct glass schedule, aluminum repaired with isolated fasteners at every dissimilar metal joint.
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Prime, block, and seal
Repairs primed, blocked flat under a guide coat, and sealed. Cab panels sit at eye level for anyone walking past your truck, so flatness is checked before color goes on.
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Refinish and blend
Color matched against the actual adjacent panel rather than the paint code alone, sprayed, and blended out so the transition disappears instead of lining up along a body seam.
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Reassembly and cycle check
Hardware installed, doors and hood cycled and adjusted until they latch under their own weight, mirrors set, lettering reinstated, and the unit released with before and after photographs.
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Pricing and posted rates
| Item | Rate or range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Typical job range | $750 to $12,000 | Varies with extent of damage and parts availability |
| Shop hours | 5 to 60 | Quoted after teardown, not before |
| Body and paint labor | $210 per hour | 2026 posted rate |
| Paint supplies | $55 per paint hour | Calculated automatically on every estimate |
| Body supplies | $5 per body hour | Calculated automatically on every estimate |
| Parts | 100% markup under $100, 35% over | Special order parts require a non refundable deposit at order |
| Deposit | 50% at authorization over $2,000 | Additional 25% when parts arrive on jobs over $10,000 |
| Sales tax | 7.75% on parts and materials | Labor is not taxed |
Insurance billed jobs may be billed at carrier negotiated labor rates that differ from the posted retail rates above. See all posted rates.
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On the insurance side
Cab damage on a commercial unit is frequently a series of small events rather than one claim. We itemize by panel and by incident so claimable damage stays separate from accumulated wear on the estimate.
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Vehicles we do this work on
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Box Trucks
Box trucks put a separately built cargo body on a cab chassis, and the joint between them is where most failures start. Rear frame
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Flatbed Trucks
Flatbed trucks carry unprotected loads on an open deck, so the deck, headboard, rub rails, and stake pockets take the damage rathe
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Semi Trucks
Semi tractors take their damage from what happens around them, not to them. Trailer swing contact with the cab, yard hostler strik
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Dump Trucks
Dump bodies take abrasive load impact, hoist stress, and tailgate hardware abuse that no other truck body sees. Floor wear-through
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Utility Trucks
Utility trucks carry a compartmented service body loaded with tools, parts, and frequently a crane, and the compartments are where
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Tow Trucks
Tow trucks take structural load from vehicles they carry and pull, so the deck, subframe, wheel lift mounting, and tie-down points
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Refuse and Recycling Trucks
Refuse bodies fight corrosion from acidic leachate on top of packer stress, hopper impact, and thousands of arm or tailgate cycles
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Questions about cab body repair, door hood fender and bumper
Frequently asked questions
How much does commercial cab body repair cost?
Work runs $750 to $12,000, or 5 to 60 hours at $210 per hour plus parts and paint materials. A creased door skin repaired and blended sits near the low end. A cracked fiberglass hood, both fenders, a bumper, and a full front refinish sits at the high end. Parts carry 100 percent markup under $100 and 35 percent over $100.
How long will the truck be down?
A single panel repaired and blended is typically three to five working days, most of which is cure and cycle time rather than labor. Two or three panels with parts on hand runs five to eight days. If a hood or fender has to be ordered, add the lead time, which we confirm before disassembly rather than after. Nothing gets torn down into a parts wait.
Can you match our fleet white?
Yes, and we match to the panel rather than to the paint code. Fleet whites drift with age and sun exposure, so a code-only spray on a five-year-old cab will read off next to the neighboring door. We spray out a card, check it against the actual panel under multiple light sources, then blend. The formula is recorded for your other units.
Will you install an aftermarket hood or fender to save money?
Yes, if you want it, and we will tell you what to expect. Aftermarket fiberglass hoods commonly need fit work at the hinge and latch and can arrive with mold flash or a soft spot at the wheel arch. Budget a few extra hours of fitting labor. On high visibility units in a branded fleet, OEM usually holds its lines better over a service life.
Does cab damage affect anything mechanical you can fix?
No. We do body, paint, structural, and equipment install only. Engine, drivetrain, or DOT inspection work is not performed here. If a front impact pushed a component behind the bumper or bent a step bracket into a chassis part, we will document and photograph it so your mechanical vendor knows exactly what to look at.
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