{"id":9182,"date":"2016-08-10T07:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:14:58","slug":"are-these-fuso-canter-3-5-tonners-vans-or-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/9182","title":{"rendered":"Are these FUSO Canter 3.5-tonners vans or trucks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All goods vehicles with a gross weight of up to 3.5 tonnes tend to be thought of as vans.\u00a0That’s a description that usually implies a lighter type of construction than that used on heavy goods vehicles — or trucks.<\/p>\n

The trio of FUSO Canter 3C13 3.5-tonners recently purchased\u00a0by Newton Abbot-based\u00a0contractor MT Mills should rightly be\u00a0thought of as vans. But reading the spec list makes it clear that these are proper trucks, despite their low weight.<\/p>\n

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These FUSO Canter 3.5 tonners boast a range of truck-like features.g<\/p><\/div>\n

Underneath their truck-like cabs, the FUSOs boast 3-litre, 130hp engines that are designed to deliver high torque, rather than\u00a0car-like\u00a0levels of power. A Start\/Stop system is standard\u00a0but remarkably, so to is an engine brake.<\/p>\n

Engine brakes\u00a0help control vehicle speed on descents without using the service brakes. This prevents the risk of a heavily-laden vehicle overheating its brakes and\u00a0suffering from brake fade. It’s a feature that’s fairly standard on trucks but\u00a0very rare on 3.5 tonners.<\/p>\n

A further\u00a0truck-like feature of\u00a0these models is\u00a0their 3.5-tonne towing capacity. While a number of big pickups on the UK\u00a0market can tow 3.5 tonnes,\u00a0very few van models\u00a0can\u00a0tow\u00a0such heavy loads.<\/p>\n

Like other<\/a> Canter<\/a> owners<\/a>,\u00a0New owner Mark Mills is pleased with what he’s seen so far and notes that\u00a0despite their sturdy construction, the Canters have a higher payload than competing vehicles:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Canter also offers around 300 kg more payload potential than the five other, similarly-sized tippers that we also run. What\u2019s more, its exceptionally high, 3.5-tonne towing capacity is proving very useful when we need to move mini-diggers and other plant between sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 3.5-tonne FUSO Canter is of course a smaller version of the heavier models available in the FUSO range. And that’s the difference between this and a standard van — it’s a scaled down truck, rather than a scaled up car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Devon contract MT Mills’ FUSO Canter 3.5 tonners boast a range of features more commonly found in larger trucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1823,1779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182"}],"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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}