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Vans are much more useful but pickup is more fun to drive! Pickup has the edge on towing though (3t vs 2t on a sprinter).
I have a Daihatsu fourtrak and ifor 8 by 4 caged trailer. Only use the trailer 2 days out of 6 every week. My sign writing is all on the trailer. Not sure about the image but it can pull a cow out of a swamp. I have pulled hedges out with it and it is so useful i would have another in a flash. It is kind of a 4 wheel drive van. Trailer is added when required.
I use a Mitzy L200 and an IW caged trailer, both sign written. Without the 4x4 and BF Goodrich tyres I would not be able to tip my waste at the site I do, and have seen plenty of vans get stuck.
Yes my truck and trailer look professional, and both commercial kit.
what are you getting mpg wise?
Ive been thinking of swapping from a transit tipper to a l200 warriror or navara
My worry with the trailer is that it won't be there when I get back. Same with tools in a pick-up.
Personally, a secure van is the most important thing, with the trailer only used when I really need to fill it with waste. Normally, it sits locked away and I fill it every evening until there's a load worth taking to the tip. Unless it's got a serious wheel-clamp on, a trailer is a target for being pinched wherever it's parked up.
my single cab transit does around 350-400 miles to a tank so around 20-25mpg thats before it loaded upto its gtw. at the moment only need the one work vehicle.
i keep thinking i'd like a 4x4 crew cab or an landy 110, but the swb trafic panel van wins on practicality every front. i can get all my 'just in case and useful bits', a barrow, a pile of tools and still get a tonne bag in the back (and yes, i realise this might put me a tad over the limit, but no one has yet batted an eyelid)
i have a nice big trailer that i use, but i can't take it to every job - often i have trouble parking my van in the space available, add a trailer to that and i'd be having real problems.
most guys around here seem to run panel vans like mine, transit style tippers or the larger sprinters. i know a couple of guys with landys, one has a 90 and the other has a 110, and they both drag trailers around pretty much all the time, knew a couple of guys that had hi lux single cabs, but they both use merc vitos now (one likes his, the other curses the day he bought it).
i saw one vehicle the other day that got me thinking, it was some sort of tipper (iveco i think), with a big full width tool locker which was accesible through roller shutters like on a fire engine, higher than usual body sides and a small hi-ab 013 mounted behind the locker, a bit big for me, but it looked like someone had really thought about what they wanted - twas rather nice.
I have thought about changing my Vivaro for a swb Shogun and trailer . I do more landscaping now and struglle lifting mixer and wacker into the van due to my back. Plus proposed changes to carparking at home mines I cant park a commercial vehicle anymore.
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