Glenn's Body Repair

Glenn's Body Repair is a truck and heavy equipment body shop based in West Fargo, North Dakota, and it is a bring-it-in operation. The shop is 30,000 square feet, with 10 body repair bays, a 50 ton frame straightening rack and two paint booths, built to handle trucks, semi tractors, trailers, buses and RVs, so a motorhome with collision damage is not squeezed into a bay sized for cars.

The work covers truck body repair, frame straightening and truck painting, and the shop says, "Our experienced technicians and support staff will repair all heavy truck, bus and RV makes and models to pre-accident condition." That matters for an RV owner after a collision or a roof strike: a frame or body shop built for heavy trucks has the lift capacity and bay size an RV chassis actually needs, which a standard auto body shop may not. Painters are DuPont certified, and the shop also does sandblasting for proper surface prep before paint.

No hourly rate or trip fee is published, and the shop does not list its hours, so call ahead and ask what a diagnosis or estimate costs and when they can take a look. The shop does offer free estimates. It also says it is "certified for doing warranty repairs for a number of boat and RV manufacturers," which is worth asking about directly if the damage might be covered. Glenn's has been doing this work since 1976, founded by Glenn Johnson.

This is a good fit for an RV owner near Fargo or West Fargo dealing with body damage, a bent frame or a paint job after a collision, who needs a shop with the size and equipment for a full size rig rather than a standard auto body garage.