FIELD PROVEN

"I am writing you regarding the use of your HELP Energy Absorbing Bumper System. SMART has a lot of experience with your bumpers."

"The HELP bumper has significantly reduced the downtime and overall maintenance both associated with maintaining our fleet. Our annual damage repair costs are much lower, and they do such a great job protecting our vehicles that we have been able to save money by reducing the size of our spare fleet. Your bumpers protect our vehicles better than any other bumper product possibly could, and they look great."

SMART…Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation

 
 
HELP® Bumper Certified Installation credentials are presented to those manufacturers whose vehicles have passed an array of rigorous bumper performance tests.

An extensive battery of tests is designed to ensure that the HELP® Bumper as installed on the vehicle performs to the maximum potential and meets all applicable performance requirements.

Ask your vehicle O.E.M. for the Certified HELP® Bumper Installation documentation before taking delivery of your next vehicle.

INSTRUMENTATION

Computerized data acquisition Data types available:

  • Mass
  • Pressure (sensors)
  • AC/DC volts
  • Current
  • Frequency
  • Velocity
  • Resistance
  • Acceleration
  • Deceleration

Large Vehicle Simulator

  • Dry weight of 9,500 pounds
  • Capable of simulating a vehicle of 50,000 pounds

Small Vehicle Simulator

  • Dry weight of 2,400 pounds
  • Capable of simulating a vehicle of 7,500 pounds

FMVSS 215 Test Sled

  • Dry weight of 2,400 pounds
  • Simulates vehicles of 7,500 lbs.
  • Instrumented with tri-axial + 50 g accelerometers
  • Primarily used for concentrated force testing
  • The sled represents a car impact into a vehicle equipped with a HELP® energy absorbing bumper.


BENEFITS OF HELP® BUMPERS

HELP® Bumpers:

  • Minimize damage to vehicle, passengers, and cargo
  • Reduce accident repair costs
  • Reduce insurance related costs
  • Easy to install
  • Convenient to maintain

It’s been demonstrated that energy absorbing bumpers effective in the 5-10 mph range have a pay out averaging $16,369.37 over the life of the bus.

Mass Transportation Department publication DOT-UT-10008 & TR76-003.
(Adjusted to 2003 $’s)


Small Buses and Vans also experience severe damage as a result of low speed collisions. At 5 mph a 4,400 lb. van experienced $1,045.10 in damage while a HELP® bumper equipped van was not damaged at all.

Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Paper 821275
(Adjusted to 2003 $’s)