Patent ID: 7984645

Claim:
A method of producing a vehicle to be fitted with auxiliary equipment, comprising: specifying a vehicle chassis number of the vehicle to a vehicle database for collecting from the vehicle database a corresponding model vehicle specification and its parameters; specifying parameters pertaining to the auxiliary equipment; performing a strength calculation, based on the parameters of the model vehicle and a model of the auxiliary equipment, for the model vehicle in combination with the model auxiliary equipment fitted thereto; adding a model reinforcement to the model combination of model vehicle and model auxiliary equipment when a result of the strength calculation lies outside a predefined interval; when the result of the strength calculation lies outside of the predefined interval, performing a new calculation of a strength of the model vehicle combination of the model vehicle, the model auxiliary equipment and the model reinforcement; and adding an actual reinforcement to the vehicle when a result of the strength calculation verifies that the model vehicle with the model reinforcement has sufficient strength to support the model auxiliary equipment, wherein the auxiliary equipment comprises additional equipment fitted to the vehicle wherein additional equipment fitted to the vehicle comprises at least one of a tail lift, a crane, and a towing arrangement.