Just sitting in a corner, unnoted and completely ignored by the crowd at the yearly held truck-mounted cranes fest. In other words, the conditions for taking photobomb-free pictures of this Iveco Daily worker bee, with a battle scar on the left side of its nose, were just perfect.
The number 40 in the truck’s model designation refers to a factory gross vehicle weight rating of 4,200 kg (9,260 lbs).
Daily trucks come with a genuine ladder frame and the power goes to the single or dual rear wheels. A 4×4 drivetrain is also available, but I have yet to see one in the Netherlands.
The lonely truck I caught is powered by an FPT Industrial, 3.0 liter F1C four-cylinder turbodiesel with a maximum power output of 176 DIN-hp, rounded to 180 DIN-hp in the model designation. The engine’s maximum torque is 430 Nm (317 lb-ft) @ 1,600 rpm.
Since model year 2024, this is the Daily’s dashboard. The Hi-Matic gear selector is in plain sight, Hi-Matic is the Iveco moniker for a ZF 8HP eight-speed automatic transmission.
The lower position of the tailgate relative to the dropsides indicates that the flatbed is not just a straightforward flat bed.
The rear end of the floor slopes downward, making the truck suitable for transporting wheeled or tracked machinery. The loading ramps are stored underneath the horizontal part of the floor.
If the rear end of the floor slopes downward, the rear end of the frame has to slope downward too.
This company YouTube video -featuring an employee driving an older, yet similar Iveco Daily- shows all the business procedures. The legally allowed towing capacity for such light trucks, and the full-size panel van equivalents, is 3,500 kg (7,700 lbs).
We all know what that blue van is, lurking in the background. The globally known FoMoCo competitor, albeit with a lower heavy-duty level.
The latest Iveco-related news is that is that Tata Motors from India is taking over the Iveco Group for € 3.8 billion. That includes FPT Industrial, but not Iveco’s defence business.
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Does it have a winch in the bed to pull up dead equipment???
At first I thought it was a roll back wrecker, all those have a winch. I guess you could put cars on this rig as well.
No, see video. It’s not a recovery vehicle or car transporter. It hauls compact, self-propelled wheeled or tracked machines and materials needed for the job. Such flatbeds always have dropsides, ideal for (un)loading with a forklift. Plus you will never ‘need a ladder’ for bed access.
I believe Iveco sold trucks in the US; if I’m not mistaken, it was the Zeta version, called EuroTurbo here.
The Daily, with gasoline engines, would sell well in North America.
And Case/New Holland machinery comes with FPT Industrial engines. Part of the Iveco Group, to be taken over by Tata Motors, as mentioned.
What a nice setup. I wish that we had these in The States. What we have some good conventionals but this is exceptional for design. (Old truck salesman here, of course). I would have sold these were I still in the business. We have a lot of COE (cab over engine) Japanese trucks that use a too-narrow frame and are unsteady on the road.
If you don’t mind saying, what do you drive?
These days? A 2023 Toyota Yaris 1.5 Hybrid (my very first company car, actually) and a 1989 Mercedes-Benz 300 CE (124-series).
Fun. Wish you would write them up and maybe even do a COAL series.
Well, about that Benz. Everything you want to know and -especially- see is right here:
https://ruylclassics.nl/ClassicCars/mercedes-300ce-w124-febr-1989/?taal=EN
Nice dropsider, it just sneaks into logbook territory here if you are paid to drive one but thats the right way to build a working truck, theres nothing quite as inconvenient as a well side for bulky objects.
It’s not completely uncommon to see European registered Fiat Ducato camper vans, or less likely, the Peugeot equivalent where I live in California. And occasionally Euro Sprinters, and I’ve even seen a handful of Iveco’s. Just last week I barely noticed an example of that globally known Ford, another of which sits in front of my house (and soon will be behind it, when we finally finish our off street parking expansion). But then I spotted German EU license plates on the Transit … definitely a first for me here. Attached is a Daily camper I saw at the Grand Canyon last year.
I regularly see European campers, vans and such in and around Port Orford as they work their way down and up Hwy 101. Some are extremely gnarly trucks with huge wheels and capable of taking on anything on the globe. I imagine that they must ride pretty harshly.
An Iveco Daily 4×4 alright. It looks quite Unimog-ish, so to speak.