{"id":4026,"date":"2012-11-23T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2012-11-23T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T15:17:55","slug":"brandons-custom-fiat-ducato-is-mini-low-loader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/4026","title":{"rendered":"Brandon’s Custom Fiat Ducato Is Mini Low Loader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon Hire's KFS Special Vehicles Plant & Go transporter, based on a Fiat Ducato Back-to-Back model<\/p><\/div>\n

The Fiat Ducato may not be the most common panel van in the UK market, but it does dominate the motorhome market throughout Europe, helped by Fiat’s provision of motorhome-specific chassis-cab models with modified chassis.<\/p>\n

Fiat also produces a model that has no chassis at all! Known as the Back-to-Back, it consists of a Ducato cab with no rear chassis. Converters can then build a bespoke chassis and body on the rear themselves.<\/p>\n

The Back-to-Back is popular with motorhome converters but also has other uses, as Bristol<\/a>-based Brandon Hire<\/a> recently demonstrated with its choice of 6 KFS \u2018Plant & Go\u2019 delivery vehicles based on the\u00a0Fiat Professional\u2019s Euro 5 Ducato<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(KFS offers a number of conversions based on Ducatos<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The KFS Special Vehicles<\/a>-built plant transporter has a light, low load bed with multiple strapping points, an in-built tailgate\/loading ramp and a payload of almost 1,600kg, enabling it to carry a wide variety of small plant and machinery within the 3.5t limit.<\/p>\n

Steve Pensom,\u00a0Brandon Hire\u2019s Fleet and Logistics Manager, explains:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat really impressed us, when the vehicle was on test, was the fact that anyone with a car licence could drive the truck. This benefit, along with improved MPG performance and the potential to safely carry greater payloads, provided us with the ideal vehicle to help minimise our costs and maximise our staff levels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think that the current Ducato has improved with age and is good value for money. It’s probably a little under-rated in the UK market, where the Transit has traditionally had a strong lead. Whether that will remain the case now that Ford’s Southampton factory<\/a> is closing is another question — perhaps other European marques will become more popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brandon Hire has recently taken delivery of six new KFS ‘Plant & Go’ vehicle transporters based on a Fiat Ducato Back-to-Back model with custom chassis and load bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1615,367,1518,1616],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}