Custom Landscape Trucks
by Mike
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Before you evaluate different custom landscape trucks available, you need to predefine certain parameters so you know what you need and you set an appropriate budget. Be ready to pay a premium for customization jobs from major dealers. However, in some towns you might find specialized shops that provide after-market customizations. In some cases, this might suit you. But whether you choose new personalized landscape trucks or aftermarket landscape trucks, be prepared for this endeavor: investing in custom landscape trucks implies a bold long-term investment in the future of your business and you must pick the proper design to maximize your landscaping business operations.
What Body Type Do You Need For Your Custom Landscape Trucks?
Does your new landscape truck need a single cab or crew cab? What body size will you require? Down in the 12 foot range you may consider a standard pickup truck, or do you really require the opposite in a full trailer-sized 26 foot body? Do you need dually landscaping trucks or will single 4×4 tires suffice? Do you need a box truck or flatbed truck? Do you need dump beds or a hauler body? How about a drywall pump platform?
Perhaps you don’t need a custom truck body at all; sometimes conceiving the most efficient solution of custom lawn trucks is to just add a couple custom landscape trailers to your fleet of vehicles.
Do You Need A Standard Gas Or A Diesel Custom Landscape Truck?
Do you need a gas or diesel engine? With smaller trucks and less intensive labor, I recommend gas. For larger trucks and/or trucks that will engage in tough, rugged work, I recommend diesel. There many advantages and disadvantages for both standard gasoline vehicles and diesel vehicles. Make sure you research and understand these pros and cons before you invest your business capital in one or the other. I’m partial to diesel vehicles for their tough durability, but you need to make the right choice for your particular needs. In particular, diesel used landscaping trucks are often a great value.
Do You Need Special Accessories For Your Custom Landscaping Trucks?
Do you need to deploy a fuel station in the field? In other words, should your custom landscape trucks be capable of fueling other equipment on the job? Do you need an integrated toolbox for your employees? If so, what size and type of toolbox will you require? Can it be fitted behind the cab or would it be optimum to have an underbody toolbox? What specialized services do you offer that may require unique customizations for your landscape truck?
Custom Landscape Trucks
Specialized lawn and landscape trucks often require specialized storage options. Would it behoove you to have storage for hand tools and power tools? How about irrigation hardware parts with integrated inventory management? Will you be parking smaller vehicles within the truck or using it like a mobile storage shed? This may help you determine the size and quantity of utility shelves you require.
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Finish Your Custom Landscaping Truck With A Proper Exterior
What about exterior and rear functions? Do you need a sophisticated ramp system, such as a hydra-ramp? Do you need a debris dumper or a specialized door to maximize the size of the equipment that can be loaded and unloaded from your custom landscape truck body? Do you need a receiver hitch to enable this truck to tow? How critical will towing be to its lifetime of duties? You might also look into flatbed for trucks.
Will you want a custom paint job to help your company stand out or do you prefer a rugged, utilitarian look? Remember, for large box trucks in particular, that large exterior space should be used as a mobile billboard. If you don’t choose a custom paint job, consider making it capable of holding vinyl lettering or changeable fleet graphics. It is an almost free and effective marketing opportunity you really should exploit, and making it one that can change with the season, market and the size and nature of your company makes it all the more effective and valuable.
Don’t Underestimate The Marketing Value Of Your Landscaping Vehicles
Don’t forget that marketing is a part of every successful business in this industry and marketing requires capital too. A glossy ad promoting your business on the broad side of that shiny new custom Isuzu or GMC may bring you more new business than you realize.
Remember that custom landscape trucks can be critical to your long-term success. As you evaluate different landscaping trucks for sale, remember you want your employees deployed as effortlessly as possible. You want them focused on the job itself rather than being distracted by the mechanics of basic operations, and that is precisely what a properly customized landscape truck can provide.
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