Thank you!

Absolutely, we will be sure you meet up when we are both on the road, will be super exciting to see your expedition vehicle too!

Thanks for the continued inspiration 🙂

Josh

When you on the European roads, let us know your route. We can try to meet up!

Cheers,
Nicole & Elmer

It does make perfect sense to have the body detachable! My dream expedition vehicle is a way away yet but these things take time, I have actually just finished a conversion for an LDV Convoy ex-minibus and my partner and I are going to do Europe in it next year, looking forward to it!

You’re very welcome regarding the compliments and it’s great seeing you reap the benefits and enjoying the travels that follow the conversion 🙂 Forgive me if you have the information on the site already but what are the dimensions of your living area of the truck?

Kind regards

Josh

It does make perfect sense to have the body detachable! My dream expedition vehicle is a way away yet but these things take time, I have actually just finished a conversion for an LDV Convoy ex-minibus and my partner and I are going to do Europe in it next year, looking forward to it!

You’re very welcome regarding the compliments and it’s great seeing you reap the benefits and enjoying the travels that follow the conversion 🙂 Forgive me if you have the information on the site already but what are the dimensions of your living area of the truck?

Kind regards

Josh

Thanks guys

You seem to think like us :-), keeping the option to move the living unit independently from the truck, just in case.
We thank you to for letting us think with you on your project and for the compliments. They do keep us motivated working on this website! Hopefully we will see you and your truck one day in real-time! In the meanwhile keep up posted about the progress.

Cheers,
Nicole & Elmer

PS: Regarding Zepbox, don’t know if they make bare frames. I’m sure they will answer soon (and if they don’t, your email probably has ended up in their spam-folder and they have no clue. Let us know when this is the case and we will pass it on to them).

I see total sense in your thinking regarding the ‘legs’ concept that the smaller slide-on campers adopt and I am veering toward the container locks option as it secures the vehicle, firstly, without adding weight but also with the ability to move the living area.

My thoughts around having the ‘legs’ on the living area initially was just to always have that option to move it independent to the truck itself, if, for example the truck was in a really bad state the option is even available to fit the same living area to a different truck altogether (assuming the truck’s tray is the same width and length etc). I never had aspirations to have it slide off to leave at a camp spot then drive into town it was moreso just for the option to remove if and when needed.

I have seen a lot of truck conversions where the builders weld the frame directly to the truck body itself and I always feel that they are ‘putting all their eggs in one basket’. The option to remove the living area seems just common sense really!

I completely overlooked the giveaway, such a shame! However I have it now and no doubt I will consider this my bible!

Once again, thanks so much for the insights guys, the last thing i want to do is make an almost irreversible mistake with my build

Keep up the top notch work guys (Romania looked incredible!)

Cheers,

Josh

P.S Would you happen to know if Zepbox.de makes bare frames with the container locks integrated, just the frame with no cladding or insulation? I have emailed them but had no response

We see the benefits of mechanical legs on smaller size camper units, on a pick-up for example. It can make you more mobile in cities. But once you drive a larger size truck, we do not see that many benefits either in being able to leave the camper unit behind while traveling. As Bart says driving with a truck without any load on the chassis, is not that comfortable and the truck stays approx. the same width and height.
Being able to detach the unit from the truck has more benefits when you’re not traveling, when you need to work on the truck itself, … Situations where you plan to leave the unit off for a while and you don’t necessarily need hydraulic legs.

The container locks on the Zeppelin shelter are from Aluminium. It’s not completely clear if you want to build the entire unit yourself, but if you’re considering of buying an empty or furbished unit with container locks, Zepbox.de also offers them.

(PS: If you haven’t purchased Steve Wigglesworth’s book yet, you still have a few days to participate in our giveaway 😉 )

Cheers,
Nicole & Elmer

Keep in mind that all those 4 hydraulic cylinders (and attached hardware to use them) are a lot of dead weight and you have to consider how many times on a trip you use them, the best goal for travelling is as light as possible. the more weight the more your truck will use fuel. second thought: if you use that system to go shopping with your truck while leaving the living unit somewhere else; a empty truck will bounce around enormously, you might be better off with a bicycle or motorbike?