About Us

Starting up nearly 50 years ago, TL Engineering had its humble beginnings as a small backstreet business.

Today it remains the dominant force in motor vehicle body building and operates one of the biggest and most up-to-date vehicle body building manufacturing facilities in Australia.

Still a proudly Western Australian company, TL Engineering enjoys a formidable reputation for the quality and value of its product and services.

It’s a reputation that wasn’t gained easily or overnight and has been built on the back of a highly skilled local workforce that collectively has hundreds of years’ experience in designing, building and fitting automotive vehicle bodies. Coupled with outstanding customer service, TL Engineering provides state-of-the-art products and services with the highest safety standards.

Why choose TL Engineering for your Light Vehicle, Truck or TLX 4×4 solution? What sets us apart from the others? Aren’t all vehicle body builders the same?

We have attempted to answer these important questions below.

PROVEN PRODUCTS

The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and there is no better proof than the TL trays and trucks, both old and new, rolling on our roads today. Employing designs that are often copied by competitors, TL’s products are proven performers shaped by decades of operating in the harshest environments imagineable. Ask a mining company why its utes are TL built. Ask a road builder why its trucks bear the TL logo. Speak to a regional bus company and find out why they entrust the safety of their kids to a TL bus fitout.

BUILT ON EXPERIENCE

The TL team has delivered hundreds of thousands of vehicle builds since 1970. Builds made with Australian materials and by local tradesmen who are passionate about their industry. While other companies outsource or look to provide one-size-fits-all solutions, TL proudly manufactures, finishes and fits its builds exactly for the job and vehicle required. This comes naturally to a company whose Federal Authorised Modifier VSB 6 Code is #M1WA – which means it was the first Western Australian company to receive such accreditation when VSB standards were introduced in Australia. That sort of industry experience, is simply irreplaceable.

MADE FOR THE LONG HAUL

Most TL builds will outlive their vehicles. That’s what happens when rugged materials and outstanding workmanship are combined in efficient designs. That’s what happens when products evolve steadily and surely from decades of feedback gained from end-users on the road, in the paddocks, in the cities and in the outback.

REAL FLEET CAPACITY

TL Engineering delivers more completed vehicles in a year than most of its competitors will do during the lifetime of their businesses. TL’s capacity is a product of its skilled workforce, extensive facilities and most of all, the flexibility and capability that enables it to deploy personnel to specific jobs as required. And because every part of the build, from hydraulics to electrics and painting, is completed in-house and managed on site, it’s also delivered on time.

SAFETY & STANDARDS

True vehicle safety comes from functional body builds and a proper safety accreditation regime. Vehicles arriving at TL Engineering today will return to the customer expertly fitted with proven products that have stood the test of time and the test of testing! All bullbars, rollbars, trays, towbars and cargo barriers are tested to ensure they complement the safety features of the vehicle. TL also commissions external engineers to approve all uniquely modified vehicles and buses. Can all vehicle body builders offer this?

BACKUP & SERVICE

Within a few hours of being deployed, most of our clients’ vehicles are being used for what they were designed: Tipper trucks are scratched and dirtied from their loads and wheelchair lifts cycle up and down many, many times a day. It’s after this initial running in period that the inherent quality and efficiency of a modified vehicle will be proven during normal everyday use. And this is what TL vehicles are designed and built for: To be used safely and efficiently, every day. Should issues or the need for fine-tuning arise, TL Engineering backs up all its products and work with pride.