I have not had any business dealings with them, so please keep that in mind. Also, I'm not here to bash a business, it's not my intent, but I think interested parties should be aware of honest observations from independent sources.
Over the course of a few years, I have seen multiple PlanBSupply trucks in person at the Crossroads of the West gun show at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, UT.
I have not been impressed.
I will say I liked their ideas, or where they were going with the projects that I have seen. I cannot say if what I saw was just rushed to make the show or was the enormity of scope of the project (big conversions, quad cabs etc), but as I said, seeing multiple of their trucks over a few years I can only guess it is systemic. The main two areas I observed (since I cannot speak as to the truck's mechanical maintenance):
- Terrible paint jobs - and I'm not talking about the color, as everyone's preference is different.
- Poor, poor masking of lights, reflectors, and in many cases, no masking at all
- Over spray on everything from lights, windows, chain covers, tires, interior and failure to properly spray behind something (like the M939 series' air intake stack). Zero attention to detail.
- Runs
- For the asking price, I would have expected a full stripped down to metal repaint. But it was clearly just paint over existing CARC
- Buggered welds
- Obvious non-penetrating welds
- Porous welds
- Copious amounts of weld spatter
Some of the displays had to be for pure flash and "pizzazz", but left me wondering how the end user was suppose to make use of it. Like one M939 series with a stretched cab, roof rack and much bigger tires, had the spare tire sitting on the top of the stretched cab and roof rack. There was a literal built-in ladder to climb onto the roof rack. But my question was, "How's the person suppose to stand that tire up, get it down safely without it rolling & bouncing away for miles (probably hitting and damaging things in the process - heaven forbid you were on the shoulder of the interstate trying to get that thing down and it bounced through traffic...), and let alone get the other tire back up there?"! It'd take a crane/fork lift!
