Light commercial vehicle

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Light commercial vehicles (LCV) or category N1 is the formal term in the European Union for commercial carrier vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of up to 3.5 tonnes.

Vehicles which qualify in this category are pick-ups, vans and 3 wheelers all commercially based goods or passenger carrier.

In fact, the LCV concept was created as a compact truck. Its usually optimised to be rugged build, low operating costs and powerful yet fuel efficient engines, utilised in intra city operations.

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