Buyers' guide to...
6- to 7-tonne GVW vans
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What's in the 6- to 7-tonne GVW vans Buyers’ Guide?
- What’s available
- Iveco Daily 65C17 panel van
- Iveco Daily 65C17 chassis-cab
- Mercedes-Benz Vario 616D Long HR panel van
- Mercedes-Benz Vario 616D chassis-cab
- Isuzu N62.150 chassis-cab DAF LF45.160
- If weight is the number one concern…
- The cube route
- Access all areas
- Agility
- Driveline
- Costs of ownership
- Useful links
- Operator comments
Why should you read the 6- to 7-tonne GVW vans buyers' guide?
7.5-tonne GVW trucks accounted for 28% of all new trucks over 3.5 tonnes GVW registered in the UK in 2000. That proportion had dwindled to just 12% by 2011. It seems that we have fallen out of love with 7.5-tonners. The removal of the ‘grandfather’s rights’ of car drivers who passed their driving test before 1997 has steadily whittled away the number of people able to drive 7.5-tonners without acquiring an LGV licence. These little trucks suffered another body blow a few years ago when new speed limiter legislation cut their maximum speed to 90km/h (56mph) and forced them out of the third lane of motorways.
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