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Originally Posted by freebeard
Holding a straight edge up to the screen suggest that the hood height is the same but the box on the left is taller. Does it have a higher floor level? I'd guess the medium duty has the advantage aero-wise.
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Yes, a MD has a higher floor height and cab height. The higher cab and lower front of the hood makes for better forward sight-lines and smaller blindsports in front of the vehicle. (The tall long hood on the GMC I recently rented made for HORRIBLE sight-lines)
Top of the frame rails to the top of the cab:
47 inches - F450
58 inches - E450
68 inches - M2 106
I suspect this is why most pickup based ambulances do not have a walk-though. It would be more like a crawl through.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
Not having a walk-through sounds like a solvable problem.
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Yes, given enough effort just about anything can be done. However, ambulances have a LOT of wiring. Type I ambulances without a pass through put their wiring at the front of the box under the window. So to make a pass through I would need to relocate all of this
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Originally Posted by Vekke
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We call that a Type II ambulance. Just a high top van with medical gear added. If I was going to go with a van there would be no reason to buy an ambulance - I would just buy a high-top Transit van.
