Nevada Gold Mining Company Orders 35 2015 Ford F150 Pickups - Why This Matters - Torque News
After all, while 35 trucks is a nice sized purchase, it surely isn’t the biggest fleet of trucks in the US and it isn’t like Barrick is a household name. The key bit of information isn’t really about the number of 2015 F150 pickups ordered by this relatively unknown gold mining company – it is the fact that Barrick was one of the three Ford fleet customers in the US who secretly tested the aluminum... Back in 2012, Barrick Gold Corp purchased a group of Ford F150 pickups and two of those trucks were fitted with experimental cargo boxes (beds) made from a new aluminum alloy instead of steel. These two trucks were sent into Barrick’s fleet, performing all of the grueling tasks as the rest of the trucks at the company’s Nevada gold mines through 2013 and 2014. After this two year testing period, Ford examined these experimental truck... In short, those secret test trucks passed every test with flying colors, so when the 2015 Ford F150 was introduced with aluminum panels, the trucks used by Barrick with the aluminum cargo boxes were used as proof that the lightweight metal could... Source: www.torquenews.com
