van body styles guide
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Looking to get a new van for your business? But confused how to find a right van and what factors to consider for your business need.
It is always a good idea to research for yourself your own in order to find the right van for you and your business.
Here, we've compiled a brief description of the most popular van types to give you a brief idea.
Different Types of Van Body Styles
Panel vans Double Cab-in Van
Combi Van Minibus
Dropside Van Pickup Truck
Tipper Van Luton
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The most common van body style on roads in the UK. Smart design and dimensions of a panel van make it easy to navigate city streets and twisty roads.
It drives well and makes long-distance or high-speed driving a breeze. Nowadays, they can be designed in variety of sizes.
Panel Van
Best for: Everyday use for your business Style, space and efficiency Better suited to larger deliveries or
contractors
Highlights: Popular van body style Box shaped design for extra
large square loading space
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Double-Cab-in-van features an extra fitted row of seats at the back as well as the two or three seats in the front row.
Two side windows are fitted to separate the second row of seats from the load space, for more surrounding visibility.
Double Cab-in Van
Best for: Ideal, for those who want to carry
more than one or two passengers in addition to their load.
Highlights: Pair of extra seats Comfortable
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Combi Van - features an extra row of seats behind the front. The main difference compared to a Panel Van is that the Combi has more flexible seating arrangements and also features windows at the side. The loading area is much smaller in a Combi.
Suited as versatile passenger vehicle, focuses more on flexible seating arrangements than load space.
Combi Van
Best for: Due to smaller loading space, a
Combi van specified as passenger vehicle.
Highlights: Beautiful design & unmatched
style Flexible passenger vehicle
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Designed to carry a large number of passengers, the Minibus is available with both a longer wheelbase and more seats. Offers plenty of headroom and legroom for all in the vehicle.
Mini buses have a carrying capacity of between 8 and 30 seats. Larger minibuses may be called minibuses.
Minibus
Best for: Public transport role – fixed route
transit buses, airport buses and flexible demand responsive transport.
Highlights: Passenger carrying vehicle Low step-in heights allows
quick and easy loading.
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Dropside vans are ideal for workers looking to transport large and heavy items which would be difficult to move in the more enclosed loading bay of a panel van.
The folding side panels allow you to load and unload large items such as pipes, pallets and containers. All the dropside vans come with a convenient height for handling materials in and out of the loading bay.
Dropside vans
Best for: Workers to carry heavy items and
large transport
Highlights: A great loading space Side panels allows to load &
unload large items easily.
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A Pickup truck is a light commercial vehicle that comes with enough room for passengers within and a sizeable open loading area in the back.
Easy to carry few passengers and transport items easily to one destination to other.
Pickups
Best for: Carry smaller items with passengers.
Highlights: Allows passenger and cargo
space together.
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Tipper vans look similar in design and principal to the dropside vans. They also have an open top and shallow side panels which can drop for easy access to the loading area.
The main difference with a tipper van, is it has a hydraulic ram which can raise one side of the load area to allow its contents to be emptied quicker.
Tipper vans
Best for: More suited to landscaping work or
pallet loading and unloading items
Highlights: High payload Quicker to unload items
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Luton vans are designed to accommodate high volume low height loads of straw hats. Luton Vans have a market leading payload and are available to fit a wide range of chassis brands.
The portion of the body that rests over the cab is referred to as the peak. With a shutter at the back for secure loading.
Luton Van
Best for: Best suited to long-load deliveries
and contracts
Highlights: High strength wide lath shutter Offers market leading payload
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