(Left) The ProMaster Tremendous Excessive Roof could be could be upfit with a partition and pocket door. (Proper) At 6 ft. 5 in., Greg Jackson of Cooper Motor can stand contained in the van with ample headroom.
Photograph: Cooper Motor Firm
With restricted car availability right now, fleets want to start out pondering outdoors the field, says Chip Cooper, proprietor of Cooper Motor Firm. One new entry into the ProMaster household is the 2023 Ram ProMaster Tremendous Excessive-Roof cargo van. Cooper Motor showcased the van on the DeliveryCon Expo in Las Vegas Oct. 16-18.
Spec’d on the 3500 mannequin with 159-inch wheelbase, the Tremendous Excessive-Roof van has an inside top over 7 ft. and a cargo size of 13 ft. For cargo storage, the van has a quantity of 520 cubic toes, extra room than each the 2023 Ford Transit at 487 cubic toes with a excessive roof, and the 2024 raised roof Mercedes Sprinter at 374 cubic toes. The cargo width of 75.6 inches can accommodate a normal pallet loaded from a forklift.
“It will possibly substitute quite a lot of small field vans at that dimension,” says Cooper, including that the front-wheel drive car provides a greater turning radius and gas economic system.
The cargo Prolonged Excessive Roof model could be spec’d on the ProMaster 3500 for an extra $4,000.
The 2023 Ram Promaster van incorporates a cargo quantity of 520 cubic toes. The van can match a ladder rack within the inside and nonetheless depart standing room.
Photograph: Ram
A Have a look at the Inside
For supply purposes, the Tremendous-Excessive Roof inside could be spec’d with two rows of aluminum fold-up cabinets, permitting bigger storage gadgets to be positioned on the ground with area for smaller gadgets to be positioned on the cabinets. It is a profit over standard-roof vans, during which the racks must be flipped as much as accommodate bigger gadgets.
As well as, the Tremendous-Excessive Roof could be upfitted with an inside ladder mount for contracting and vocational purposes, that are a profit to driver ergonomics and tools safety. “There isn’t any want for it to be externally mounted, you will get to it a lot simpler from the inside roof,” says Greg Jackson, nationwide fleet gross sales supervisor at Cooper Motor Firm.
The Tremendous-Excessive Roof may also be optioned with a roll-up rear door, an unique for this mannequin.
This mannequin is in a restricted manufacturing run, with manufacturing for 2024 fashions having just lately began firstly of November. For fleets, meaning ordering early. “Proper now, the most important factor outdoors of demand or provides, is getting them right here,” Cooper says.
