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US 2013/0199863 A1Published application
Vocational truck vehicle
AssigneeInternational Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
InventorThomas L. Robbins
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Abstract
A vocational truck vehicle has a vocational body mounted on a chassis rearward of a cab and overlying at least one rear axle. A fuel storage module for storing fuel for use by an alternative-fueled combustion engine which propels the vehicle has a frame holding at least one fuel storage vessel and attached to the vocational body to locate the fuel storage module in confronting relation to a rearward-facing wall of the vocational body.
Claims13
A vocational truck vehicle comprising:
- a cab-chassis having a chassis, a cab mounted on the chassis at a front of the vocational truck vehicle, the chassis including at least one rear axle rearward of the cab and a combustion engine for propelling the vocational truck vehicle;
- a vocational body which is mounted on the chassis rearward of the cab, which overlies the at least one rear axle, and which has a rearward-facing wall;
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- a fuel storage module for storing fuel for use by the combustion engine, the fuel storage module comprising a frame holding at least one fuel storage vessel and attached to the vocational body to locate the fuel storage module in confronting relation to the rearward-facing wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.