Light, compact, yet sturdy. That’s the RWD Iveco Daily in a nutshell. The whole Continent is littered with Daily trucks and vans. Minibuses and tractor units are also available. Naturally, the real thing comes with dual rear wheels, like this chassis-cab with a three-way dump bed.
The landscaper’s three-seater is a Daily Mk IV, offered from 2006 to 2011. It’s powered by a 3.0 liter inline-four, running on diesel CNG (compressed natural gas), good for 136 DIN-hp.
Since January 1, 2022, both Iveco and their engine supplier FPT Industrial are no longer operating under the umbrella of CNH Industrial. The new, demerged company is called Iveco Group.
The chassis-cab is equipped with a Scattolini Bison three-way dump bed.
Not only that, there’s also an Atlas crane behind the cab. And last but not least, a serious storage unit with a lid. Well, it seems that everything’s all set to go.
You must have noticed the 1986 Ford F-150 in the background of the first photo. The ol’ pickup was in the foreground almost two years ago.
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Neat truck for light service. I like it.
I’ve seen a handful of trucks like this on the RAM ProMaster chassis/cab in the US, although those are FWD, and I couldn’t say if the beds were dumps. I haven’t seen any Fords, though. They seem far more useful for actually picking stuff up than a modern pickup.
ProMaster Euro-equivalent with a double cab below, also with a Scattolini dump bed. Such a bed comes with an auxiliary frame (in black in the picture) and the whole combination is mounted on top of the factory frame rails.
Just yesterday I saw a Home Depot Ford Transit flatbed rental truck like this, but not a dumping body.
That’s about perfect. I don’t know how it would compare price-wise, but it seems a whole lot more useful than a RCLB pickup.
Jim Klein rented and drove a Ford Transit Home Depot Edition. Jim is not klein at all, but his Transit pic certainly is…
US landscapers with custom trucks tend to go a bit heavier using Isuzu NPR (Elf) or Mitsubishi Canter cabover trucks with single or double cabs and specialist bodies with equipment racks.
I would expect that the Iveco is a Class 4 truck like the Isuzu, a class above the ProMaster while Ford of Europe would offer Transits up to this weight class.
The current Daily generation ranges from 3,300 to 7,200 kg GVW (7,275 to 15,873 lbs). Which means it goes beyond the Transit, Sprinter and the like.
It’s the heaviest of the European full-size vans and light trucks, so to speak.
We do still have the E-450 and Express 4500 van chassis at around 14.5K GVWR, but any heavier than that, and you have to go with a conventional long-nose truck or a tilt cab. For only about 2 years, Ford made an E-550 chassis that was around 19-19.5K GVWR. That was a seriously beefy van.
When you want to go further here than a Daily/Sprinter/Transit/etc. -weightwise- than you’ll always get a cabover with a tilt cab.
In Iveco’s case, the Eurocargo (6,200 to 19,000 kg GVW).
Nice one! I have yet to see a landscaper (as in gardener) here that drives such a heavy truck. All vans (the majority) or light trucks like the Daily. Their small wheel loaders and such are transported on a tandem or tridem axle trailer.
Trucks like that Isuzu are owned by earth movers rather than landscapers. An example is the DAF LF below. Or the Iveco Daily 35C15 tractor with semi-trailer, see link at the bottom of the article.
Then again, there’s a landscaper~gardener~earth mover overlap for sure!
Tree surgeons have the bigger trucks here in Austria some times. But I suppose those are the royalty of gardening/landscaping…
Quite right, with bigger driveways and yards.
When Fiat and Chrysler merged I was hoping Ram dealers would get the Daily to sell in the U.S..
Historically, there has always been a strong connection between Fiat and Iveco. But FCA (now Stellantis) and Iveco were and are separate organizations.
Recently, Iveco has left mothership CNH Industrial, as mentioned in the article.