Are they doing it as a tractor unit? That picture looks like a chassis cab to go to a body builder. Still I don’t like the idea of a driver being that low down with any amount of weight behind them. Its OK if you are a DHL or a Stobarts where you can afford to have vehicles which never go outside of the M25 but if you are any other operator a vehicle specced for London will also have to do motorways and stuff and those LEC designs would scare the crap out of me at 56mph. Its also useless for refuse collection, skips, muckaway, cement etc because the front overhang, even riding on air, means you are going to ground out on uneven ground at sites and landfills etc.
Even the big boys in the waste game are saying that LECs are a good idea in principal but useless for landfill because you need to check a database, (which doesn’t exist yet) of all sites to see if you can get it in, where an old Foden which runs on liquidised squirrel might gas the kiddies but it gets every job done, every time.