JCBL Charges Ahead

With bus body code regulations in place, JCBL is looking at setting the pace.

- Anirudh Raheja

Chandigarh-based JCBL was established in 1989, with a mission to design and manufacture high quality buses and load carriers that are stylish, well engineered, and have high standards of reliability. Serving the commercial vehicle industry for the last 25 years, the company has built luxury buses, integral coaches, school buses, special application vans, medical vans, motor homes, armoured vehicles, agricultural implements, tippers and tip-trailers, cargo carriers, refrigerated vans, and heavy haulage tippers. Specialising in the manufacture of bus bodies especially, JCBL, with the AIS (052) revised bus body code in place, is looking at setting the pace. From January 01, 2017, buses, under the bus body code, will need to be classified into specific types as per the guidelines of the Central Motor Vehicle Rule (CMVR). They will need to be built as per the set specifications, and should have the necessary approvals from the respective transport authority. According to Rishi Aggarwal, Managing Director, JCBL Ltd., with AIS 052 bus body code in place, the government is stressing upon improved safety in CVs. “Looking at the rising pollution levels, and the demand for safety and comfort in India, the implementation of stringent norms like the bus body code and BSIV emission norms is the need of the hour,” he adds. Sanjeev Babbar, Chief Operating Officer, JCBL Ltd., opines, “The bus body code will be implemented in two parts. Broad specifications will need to be met in terms of dimensions. In 2018, the second phase of bus body code will be implemented, and will call for specific structural rigidity and structure FEA requirements.” “Specifications will also call for window retention, seat testing, anchorage, headlight and windshield swipe tests,” he adds.

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