Box ambulance WAS 500

type A2automatic

Within the ambulance sector, there has been an increasing reliance on lightweight box body ambulances in recent years. The trend, moving away from the panel construction to the base vehicle with a box construction, is now increasingly prevalent within the area of patient transport. When procuring a new patient transport ambulance, or even an entire ambulance fleet, the box body’s comparatively cheaper purchase price for the basic vehicle is persuading buyers. In addition, once the base vehicle has reached its maximum permitted mileage, the box can be re-used on another vehicle chassis. An investment with room for improvement, given that, with advancements in medical technology, the requirements placed, for example, on stretcher systems are also becoming more demanding. The result of this is that technical and qualitative stipulations are increasing the weight and the dimensions of electro-hydraulic stretchers. Here, the lightweight box offers further benefits: it not only helps to cut down weight, so as not to exceed the generally stipulated maximum total weight of 3.5 t, but also guarantees more space within the patient compartment. All that remains to be addressed is the housing of the equipment: in the case of the box body ambulance, scoop stretchers or combi-carriers are kept behind an access door on the outside of the vehicle, and are thus stored without any problem, outside of the patient compartment.