Structural Vans and its advantages

The Brazilian logistic system constantly aims to increase the efficiency of cargo transportation in its trips. One way is to use a the most volume to allocate the cargo, whit the least gross vehicle weight, in such a way that the transported net weight is higher. That way the highway semitrailers industry looks that their manufacturers develop lighter and robust products, not leaving aside reliability and safety. Through this motivation, this paper has the objective to achieve a study of a comparison on how a van can be used in favor of logistic transportation. Allowing to increase volume by decreasing structural parts of the chassis, and also decreases the weight of the semitrailer by reducing the mass of components through the increase of resistance of the vehicle chassis frame and van, where the van can be a factor that only increases weight to the set.