Getting your glass and windows on the road – safely

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Time pressure, narrow streets and no suitable parking space in sight: especially for service and courier vehicles, the smallest vehicle class among the transporters can offer the best solution.

Exterior racks continue to be fitted as standard on vehicles with electric drives that are used to deliver and install glass, structural elements, and other extra-large items.

Vehicles that deliver windows, structural elements and glass require a high load capacity and large load volume. For a long time, it was unimaginable that the requirements for load capacity and range of electric vehicles could be reconciled for the commercial sector. But we are now seeing signs of a trend toward electromobility (e-mobility) – in the lightweight commercial vehicle market in particular.

Delivering windows, structural elements, and glass always poses a challenge for the installation and logistics team. It could be the weight, the oversize format or even the number of items involved that makes a delivery from the company premises to the construction site a complex task.

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Do you want optimised loading positions, greater flexibility and a professional, user-friendly load securing system for transporting glass? If so, you should consider converting your van into a glass-industry vehicle. These vehicles are used primarily to make day-to-day work easier for your staff as they deliver glass, windows and structural elements. But special glass-industry vans also play an important part in making a good first impression when visiting customers and driving through town.

Despite all the progress of digitalisation, at the end of every manufacturing process, the IG units, structural elements, or pieces of glass still have to be shipped, safely and efficiently, to their destination. And the options available for logistics are just as varied as the requirements for transporting these typically heavy, bulky goods. According to Managing Director Hans-Peter Löhner from HEGLA Fahrzeugbau, not too long ago vehicles in the sector were typically only equipped with an external rack: “Companies that require more flexibility, additional loading positions, and want to impress their customers with an optimally organised vehicle can use additional fittings to customise their delivery vehicle to their specific needs.”

You don’t need a mass market to be successful. A perfect example of this is HEGLA, the company with a centre of excellence for special vehicle attachments in Satteldorf (Schwäbisch Hall, Germany). People who don’t have anything to do with glass, windows or structural elements professionally will probably not recognise the company, which was established in Beverungen in North Rhein-Palatinate in 1976, although the company is the market leader in the sector for vehicle attachments for glass and window transport.