The Best Work Truck? The Isuzu Npr
An Isuzu Npr is a favorite truck of the service industry. It has many features that make it more convenient, comfortable, and cost effective than other commercial vehicles.
An Isuzu Npr, like any commercial vehicle can be equipped to handle landscaping, plumbing, moving, construction, delivery, general contracting, and other service work. Isuzu offers many different cab-to-axle lengths and several different gross vehicle weight options.
Typical bodies fitted to an Isuzu cab and chassis include box / van bodies, mason dumps, grain dumps, landscaper bodies, and flat beds. These allow the truck to perform many different roles and fit each service market.
Isuzu is the most popular provider of commercial trucks in North America for a reason. They offer a truck better suited to the commercial sector than other manufacturers. They are built to be more dependable, longer lasting, heavier duty, and easier to operate.
The Npr model offers a higher GVWR, higher frame strength, longer effective CA length, lighter vehicle weight, tighter turning, and more wheel base options than its competitors. The truck also offers a wider door opening, longer maintenance intervals, and easier serviceability for the owner’s convenience.
The cab forward design and 40+ degrees of wheel cut provide great maneuverability. This allows an Isuzu Npr to easily access parking lots, crowded commercial sites, and areas that other commercial vehicles simply cannot navigate.
While other truck manufacturers base their commercial trucks around their light duty conventional cab vehicles, Isuzu incorporates all of the best commercial features directly into their Npr. The Npr offers air ducting to the front brakes, a fuel water separator and warning system, a larger radiator, and a bell mouth cooling system. To increase convenience and driver comfort there is easy engine access, a removable front panel, larger low cut windows, larger side view mirrors, and a spacious cab with high back seats.
The Isuzu Npr should be one of the first commercial truck vehicles a perspective buyer looks at when choosing a light to medium duty work truck. They offer the versatility, dependability, and convenience not found in other commercial vehicles.
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Isuzu Commercial Truck – In the Landscaping Industry?
Many Landscapers are switching from using a conventional Chevrolet and Ford Truck to an Isuzu commercial truck for their landscaping businesses. The benefits of using a cab forward Isuzu Npr are enough to outweigh the negatives.
Once the business owner chooses to use an Isuzu commercial truck for landscaping he must decide on what body to use. He could use a straight box or van body, a flat bed, or a landscaping body.
Unless the landscaper is using the truck to load and haul pavers, brick, block, or other outdoor masonry I would avoid using a flat bed truck. With or without stakes, the bed lacks the versatility that many landscapers will be looking for. If the owner has a large business, and a fleet of trucks, an Isuzu commercial truck with a flatbed, or a stake body truck might compliment his other trucks, but a smaller business will benefit from another body style.
Straight boxes and landscaping bodies both have positives and negatives. A box truck offers a secure, weather proof storage solution for your gear and equipment. It is more difficult to load and unload, but several options can mitigate the problems. The box can be outfitted with a lift gate, aluminum ramp, or side door. These options will increase convenience when moving smaller gear, but another option is needed for moving mowers. Landscaping and trucking fabricators are now selling dovetail landscaping attachments that can be welded directly to the back of a box truck. These attachments feature fold up ramps that allow the owner to drive mowers on and off the truck safely and securely. I believe that these attachments will gain in popularity as more landscapers move to the Isuzu commercial truck for landscaping duties.
The last option is utilizing a landscaping body specifically designed for the task at hand. These bodies typically feature fold up ramps to drive mowers on and off the body. They incorporate low sides for easy ingress and egress. Some bodies have pre fabricated cabinets or racks for trimmers, blowers, and equipment. The downside to this body is that it lacks the protection and security associated with an enclosed box. Your equipment will be vulnerable to weather, vandals, thieves, and occasionally accidents. A business owner recently told me that his Isuzu commercial truck and 2 of his mowers were nearly totaled after being in a traffic accident. While a box truck may not fully protect its contents, I believe it offers more protection than a low sided landscaping body.
To summarize, more and more business owners are finding that an Isuzu commercial truck offers greater value than other commercial vehicles. Landscapers are embracing the cab forward design and putting bodies on these trucks to make them more suitable for their equipment. A box truck fitted with a dovetail or a landscaper truck both allow Isuzu Npr’s to be great landscaping trucks.
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