Insulated van on a Hino 500 (GD 1226)

category C6,200 mm body100 mm panelstandard specification

↔ body 6,200 × 2,500 × 2,500 mm⚖ chassis payload 8 tonnes

An insulated van 6.2 metres on an eight-tonne Hino 500 — a basic truck for long-haul and distribution runs. The body wall is a 100 mm sandwich panel: at that thickness a load that goes in already chilled holds its temperature for the whole run with no refrigeration unit. The body is a wide 2,500 mm, so two Euro pallets fit across. At the rear, swing doors with cam-bar locks, the opening outlined with contour tape, and a folding ladder under the sill: at a stop with no dock you walk into the body.

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Chassis

Make / model	Hino 500 (GD), model 1226
Class	a Japanese-built medium-duty truck
Cab	single
Rear wheels	twin
Chassis payload	8 tonnes
Vehicle category	C

Van

Body type	insulated body, sandwich panel
Body dimensions	6,200 × 2,500 × 2,500 mm
Wall thickness	100 mm
Trim	standard
Doors	hinged rear, cam-bar locks
Fit-out	contour marking tape around the opening, a folding ladder and a rear underrun bar
Manufacture	the COND plant, Almaty

More about the design on the page insulated vans.

FAQ

FAQ about the Hino 500 (GD) insulated van

An insulated van has no refrigeration unit — it is a thermos: it keeps the temperature the load went in at and slows the warming. A reefer creates the temperature and holds it indefinitely. If the load travels chilled and the run takes a few hours, insulation is enough — and it costs less to buy and to run.

Time. The thicker the wall, the slower outside heat gets in: a hundred millimetres is the level at which an insulated body holds the cold for a full working day rather than a couple of hours. The price is volume — the panel takes ten centimetres off each side.

So two Euro pallets fit across. At 2,200 mm the pallets have to go in a single line, and the same body length holds noticeably less. On long-haul and distribution work that is the whole question — how many pallets went in.

An eight-tonner sits high and not every stop has a dock. The ladder folds out from under the sill and you walk straight into the body — no ramp, no step stool.

Yes. The Hino 500 (GD) is a medium-duty truck well over 3,500 kg gross, which means category C. We build category-B insulated vans on light chassis — they are collected in the “Vehicles” section.