Curtain-Side Tarpaulin Body for Iveco Daily Chassis Cab
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We manufactured and installed a curtain-side tarpaulin body on an Iveco Daily 35S–42S chassis cab with a 4,100 mm wheelbase, built for a customer delivering timber flooring, doors and stair components — work where every load is a different shape and very little of it fits through a set of rear doors.
That is exactly what a curtain-side body is for. Both sides run on sliding curtains, so a pallet goes in wherever it fits instead of being fed in from the back, and long items load flat without being lifted over a tailgate. The curtains hook onto a profile at the front and tension with a ratchet at the rear; anodised aluminium drop sides take the knocks along the bottom edge, and the rear closes with tarpaulin rather than doors — so the body loads from three sides.
Key specifications
Internal dimensions 4,473 × 2,200 × 1,800 mm — 17.71 m³
External dimensions 4,523 × 2,250 × 1,800 mm (±20 mm)
Base body weight 198.05 kg (±4%); total equipment weight 338.54 kg
Two sliding curtains, hooked on a front profile and tensioned by ratchet at the rear
400 mm anodised aluminium drop sides, 25 mm thick
15 mm plywood floor with waterproof phenolic film, fixed to aluminium cross members
Planed 25 × 100 mm pine boards on the front, both sides and the rear
Flat roof, tarpaulin rear closure, mudflaps and side underrun protection
White cab roof spoiler and cab side spoilers
Individual type-approval documentation for registration in Lithuania; 24-month warranty with no mileage limit
The tarpaulin itself was printed with the customer's own graphics. On a vehicle that spends its day parked outside a house or on a building site, the tarpaulin is the largest uninterrupted advertising surface the business owns — and printing it during manufacture costs a fraction of wrapping a finished body, with none of the edges to lift later.
The white cab roof spoiler and side spoilers are small details that pay for themselves. Matched to the body height, they move air over the front wall instead of into it, which shows up in fuel consumption on any route that spends time above 80 km/h.
We build tarpaulin and platform bodies to order on Iveco Daily, Renault Master, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter and comparable chassis, and mount them ready for registration.
