We continue to meet our customers’ quality specifications through QS9000-ISO 9001 certified systems:
  • Advanced Product Quality Planning
  • Design and Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis and
  • Statistical Process Control.

Our Quality Assurance program is fully integrated into our operating procedures. HELP Bumper impact tests are performed in our collision test laboratory.

To further guarantee quality, we work with our customers from design through production.

We are constantly evolving. Innovative engineering, utilizing 3D computer-aided design programs, new manufacturing concepts and service-based marketing are the qualities that distinguish Romeo RIM from others in our field.

Improvement requires change and we embrace change in pursuit of improvement, whether it is in product, service or human resources.

HISTORY
In the late 1970’s, the Firestone HELP® Energy Absorbing Bumper for the Transit Bus Industry was developed which could be impacted repeatedly at 5 MPH without damage to the vehicle or the bumper.

RECOMMENDATION

Investigate and pursue incorporation of new crash attenuation technologies (HELP bumpers, etc.) in future vehicle procurement specifications”

Highway Safety Strategies for Iowa – Iowa SMS Toolbox: Chapter 12 – Making Public Transit Travel Safer page 8

Iowa SMS is a diverse partnership of highway safety practitioners in engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency services dedicated to reducing the number and severity of crashes on Iowa’s roadways

  

FIELD PROVEN

The HELP Bumpers have been a real labor savor on this fleet. No dents to remove, no chrome peeling, no rust, no discoloring, and no special cleaning, through the bus wash and both front and rear bumpers look new again.

The end module tear off is well engineered with good inventiveness included and because of this quality minor bump body damage is greatly reduced, the module will slide thus reducing body tear on the vehicle. Section replacement of the helper bumper is indeed simple and quick. Your inventive minds have paid off for us too.

St. Cloud Metropolitan Transit Commission