Below is a listing of some descriptions of the most popular fleet and commercial vehicles. This is only a partial listing of what Wildcat Ford’s Commercial Department can do for your company. We can spec landscaping trucks, contractor trucks, service trucks, rescue vehicles, emergency vehicles, cranes, boom trucks, pressure diggers, pressure drills, snow plow packages, lift trucks, utility trucks, storage trucks, and compartment trucks and vans. The most popular platform is the one ton dually, but we offer everything from the Ford Ranger, Ford F-150, and the Ford Superduty line-up.
Reefer Truck – Refrigerated Truck – Refrigerated Van
A reefer truck is a truck or van usually 1 ton or larger that has a refrigerated unit built either directly on the frame or is transported by trailer. It's refrigerated by diesel-powered generators and liquid carbon dioxide, or CO2. Reefer trucks range from simple ice cream trucks to large containers carrying perishable goods across your city, state, or even cross country. Highly efficient insulated box configurations help maximize the cooling capacity of the refrigeration unit. Reefer Trucks are very similar to refrigerated trucks or refrigerated vans.
Contractor Body
The Contractor Body is a very useful and popular body. We always carry a number of this body type. The Contractor Body is flatbed with a tapered headboard, a top bed mounted box that generally has an open top lid as a Service Body does, short gates around the rear of the bed, either removable or fold-down, a load divider across the bed at the end of the upper bed boxes, a HD tapered leg rack, underbed boxes and a class IV receiver and trailer plug. Because of all of the features in this body, you can see why it is very popular. It has plenty of room for larger things in the bed area and keeps tools out of sight and under lock and key in the tool boxes.
The Contractor Body comes in different lengths, starting a 9'. The most common lengths are 10' and 12'. It is available in a 14' or longer if you like. The most common is 12'. All of the main body companies all build their Contractor Body with the features mentioned above. Some have an option we call the Super Contractor which has larger size boxes on top of the bed and contains drawers. This increases storage capacity and usefulness.
Flat Bed – Stake Bed
The flatbed is a very popular product. It's main job is to take things from one point to another. A Stakebed is a flatbed with some removable gates of various heights (40" most common) to carry taller cargo and have it remain on the bed. All Flatbeds and Stakebeds come with a standard square headboard to protect the cab from damage.
There are many options available for the Flatbed and Stakebed such as a liftgate to help get heavy items on and off the bed, under bed tool boxes, HD trailer hitch and wiring, tapered headboard, steel overlay on floor for added strength and longevity (smooth or diamond plate), cranes, tool boxes on top of the bed and more.
Dump Bed
Dump Bodies come in a variety of style. The steel dump is useful for carrying and dumping heavy cargo and it takes a good deal of abuse from materials such as rocks. The flatbed or stakebed dump can be very helpful for those who need a dump occassionally. The landscape dump body is a favorite with landscapers and generally is a flatbed with solid wood or steel sides and a swing away gate system at the rear. It is not meant for heavy items generally, but clippings, brush and similar materials.
Service Body
The Service Body is one of the most popular truck bodies on the planet. The reason is simple: storage. It has a number of sturdy, lockable compartments that people can put tools, part and other things in an keep them out of sight and out of the weather. Most Service Bodies also have open top lids on each side which is a great place to put small parts, nuts, bolts, etc. Many different types of businesses can use a Service Body effectively.
In addition to the usefullness of the Service Body, there is a miryad of options that will make the Service Body even more useful. Some of these include, cargo bed enclosure, transverse compartments, different height compartments, cranes, liftgates, master lock systems and many more. Talk with our team today about how a Service Body can help you get the job done.
Plumber Body
The Plumber Body is a Service Body with a roof on it. It is used by many different industries, not just plumbers, but plumbers made it a popular body. It is a very useful body because you can generally stand up inside the body and have storage shelves on the inside all out of side and lockable. The service body compartments on the outside hold a lot of tools, small parts, hardware and you name it. You get the best of a van body and a service body all in one vehicle. This body can be mounted on any chassis type including the cutaway chassis, conventional and tilt cab chassis.
Van Bodies
The Van Body is sometimes called a Dry Van and is a very common body that is primarily used for carrying cargo from one place to the next. It is a very common delivery vehicle. The Van Body keeps the cargo out of the weather, so it is useful year round. Van Bodies come in many different lengths and heights and there are a number of options such as liftgates, ramps, side access doors, underbed boxes and more.
The Van Body can be mounted on the conventional cab chassis or the Cutaway van chassis, or the Tilt Cab chassis such as the Ford LCF (Low Cab Forward). The most common lengths are 12', 14' and 16' and the most common heights are 84", 90" and 96". Common liftgate options are TommyGate Liftgate, Rail Liftgate and the Tuck-a-Way Liftgate. The Rail Liftgate has the largest platform and doubles as a security barrier for the rear door.
Specialty Bodies
The Custom or Specialty Body is a body that doesn't fit into any of the other categories that we have listed. Since every need is different, we do offer custom bodies and can build what you need. Give us a call to talk about your needs.
Combo Body
The Combo Body is a Service Body where the rear compartments have been removed and the floor is extended about 3' to creat a very nice work platform. It usually comes with short gates around the platform to help keep things in the bed area where they should stay. This creates a very useful body in that you have similar storage capacity of the Service Body, but the rear work area like a flatbed, hence Combo Body. The work platform is somewhat lower than a flatbed would be so it makes it very easy to use. You can pull out your chop saw and go right to work, then store everything in the body when you're done. It is a great choice for a wide variety of contractors and users.
(In case you might have been thinking of the Contractor Body which is a flatbed with tool boxes on top and bottom, that body is under the tab Contractor Body.)
Box Truck
A box truck, also known as a cube truck, cube van, bob truck, box van, or straight truck, is a truck with a cuboid-shaped cargo area.
They usually range in size 4 to 7 m in length, with smaller or larger sizes existing but being rare in North America. They usually have a garage door-like rear door that rolls up. On some box trucks, the cargo area is accessible from the cab through a small door.
Box trucks are usually used by companies that need to haul appliances or furniture. They are also used as moving trucks which can be rented from companies such as U-Haul or Ryder.
In North America, Ford, Dodge and Chevrolet/GMC have historically been the most common manufacturers of conventional cab/chassis to which various producers (called body builders or upfitters) attach the box that holds cargo. Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso and UD/Nissan Diesel have been the most common marketers of cabover-type medium duty cab/chassis used as platforms for box trucks. In North America, these trucks can range from Class 3 to Class 7 (12,500 lb. to 33,000 lb. gross vehicle weight rating, or GVWR). As of July 31, 2009, however, GM closed the plant that manufactured its medium duty commercial trucks, and announced it was withdrawing from the medium-duty commercial truck market. The same GM plant also manufactured Isuzu class 6 and class 7 models and Isuzu class 3 gasoline-engine cabover models. Isuzu's plans for acquisition or manufacture of the affected models have not been announced, as of January 2010.
The body on a box truck is sometimes called a cargo van or dry van body, though the term "cargo van" is more often used to designate a regular full size van.
