What do commercial vehicle acronyms stand for?
Here is a list of the most common acronyms used for commercial vehicles:
- SCC: Single Chassis Cab
- DCC (or D-Cab): Double Chassis Cab
- P/V: Panel Van
- DCiV: Double Cab in Van
- SWB / MWB / LWB: Short Wheelbase (L1) / Medium Wheelbase (L2) / Long Wheelbase (L3)
- LWB-EL: Long Wheelbase, Extended Length (L4)
- ELWB-EL: Extra Long Wheelbase, Extended Length (L5: Chassis Cab only)
- SRW: Single Rear Wheels
- DRW: Double Rear Wheels
- FWD / RWD / AWD: Front-Wheel Drive, Rear-Wheel Drive, All-Wheel Drive
- LCF: Low Cargo Floor (FWD)
- FDR: Final Drive Ratio
- TDCi: Turbo Diesel Common Rail injection
- HPCR: High Pressure Common Rail
- SLD (DSLD): Side Load Door (Dual Side Load Door)
- LF / HF: Low Floor / High Floor (used for FWD / RWD)
- LR / MR / HR: Low Roof / Medium Roof / High Roof
- OSS: One-Stop Shop
Examples of the acronyms in use:
A Double Chassis Cab with a: Gross Vehicle Mass of 3500kg, a 2.0 Turbo Diesel Common rail Injection 130ps engine, Long Wheelbase (or L3), Rear-Wheel Drive and Dual Rear Wheels.
Would simplify to:
350(GVM)L3DCC-RWD2.0 TDCi130PS DRW