commercial van with long cargo space

ger34

Hi, i am looking for a panel van that can carry 5 metre long rolls of carpet with the rear doors closed.
Make and model suggestions please.

corktina

panel van is going to be tricky...Merc Sprinter?

si_guru

The longest Crafter or Sprinter is 4700mm inside.

kasper

get the customer to buy carpet tiles instead

bonzodog2

Something with a luton body perhaps ?

kasper

seriously i dont think you are even going to get a van that long even with a luton body ,and if you did you wouldnt probably get to drive it on a b license

bladebrew

i dont think any van has a load space that long

you would be looking at a c1 licence to drive anything i have found online that could carry 5m lenghts


^^^edit: as said above!!

cormie

You would just above fit 5m in a luton, but it would be taking up the load space of the luton part itself too and would probably have to be supported in air at the back.

It depends I guess, how many rolls will you be taking at once? Is it just for the odd 5m roll and you want to have yourself covered for the eventuality, or will you be delivering 5m rolls to carpet shops all the time?

Another long panel van would be the iveco daily, I've seen some that look really long, again, if you're only carrying the odd 5m roll, maybe you could get a custom bulk head that allows you to drop the top half and have the carpet going over the passenger head rest?

jumbone

si_guru wrote: »

The longest Crafter or Sprinter is 4700mm inside.

Is there a high roof model with at least 1800mm interior height?



Anybody remember Pythagoras

obviously ye were mitching maths whereas i mitched art class

corktina

take out the front seat and use that space? possibly illegal and limited number of rolls would fit....

R.O.R

You are going to struggle to find anything under 3.5Ton with an interior length of 5m, as said above.

Even a luton body is going to have serious overhang - the length of a Transit 350 EF (extended frame) chassis is only 3.96 metres.

Using Jumbone's suggestion above, an extra long wheelbase Sprinter with the Super High roof will take a load length of 5m on the diagonal. There is a shelf over the cab that one end would be supported on.

Way over 1.8m of interior height in a super high roof sprinter - 2.14m according to page 5 of this pdf - http://www.mercedes-benz.ie/content/media_library/hq/hq_mpc_reference_site/van_ng/new_vans/models/sprinter_906/panel_van/product_information/technical_data/dimensions_weights/sprinter_panel_van_dimensions_weights_01_2149_de_COM_09-2008_pdf.object-Single-MEDIA.download.tmp/Sprinter_Kastenwagen_Abmessungen_Gewichte_de_COM_09-2008_j.pdf

Cmar-Ireland

Your question reminded me of a funny van I've seen around Killarney.
There is a funiture shop there and the guy has his van 'extended' to carry rolls of carpet.
It's just that the 'extension' on the van is a rear cut from the same model van and it has been rivited onto the back of his.

It's got about 5 or 6 feet of an overhang behind the rear wheels...

Crazy looking yoke and probably not road legal?

cormie

Any idea why such a van wouldn't be legal? Sure the overhang would be much less of an overall length than say if a trailer was being towed.

Cmar-Ireland

Maybe it is legal, I don't know.
Suppose if it's done correctly and not loose or a danger to anyone, the DOE would pass it.

Could be an idea for the OP.

trad

This might do http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-R-Fiat-Ducato-Walk-Through-Luton-Box-Van-4-800kg-/320545917148?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item4aa20688dc

Seems to have the loadspace. There's a few around across the pond, seen Gordon Brown's gear getting put in one when he left No 10.

corktina

jumbone wrote: »

Is there a high roof model with at least 1800mm interior height?



Anybody remember Pythagoras

obviously ye were mitching maths whereas i mitched art class

your trig is flawed....a roll of carpet would be ,what?, 1/2 a metre wide so your cant just take the length into account, you would have to measure from "corner to corner" to get the extreme length and then add a proprtion of the width to you calcualtion that got the 1.8 metre... I'm not doing it for you go figure....

frank gooding

The transit jumbo is pretty long.

About a meter longer than the lwb

A mate has a sprinter and fits carpet he can defo close the doors.

Knarr

Im pretty sure the longest panel 'van' you can get is a mecedes vario

Not sure if you can drive one on a B licence though. If there is one wothout the twin wheel then id say you could drove it on a B.

Very expensive though, especially new!!!

R.O.R

^^^^^
Definately higher than a B licence. Think the Vario might require a full C licence.