Hiya
Good luck with your journey's!
Even though it is perhaps a little more for people on two wheels who don't appreciate big things, you could also research on the HUBB forum?
Entry requirements for your vehicle will probably be determined by relationships already (hopefully) established between your country and each of your destinations. They are usually overseen by a motoring organisation in your country. Visa info specific for you may be best obtained from the relevant consulates in your country?
Insurance for any given country is often bought at or very near the border into that country, and may be third party only. Good travel insurance for a year of travel (rather than a year of cover within which you only travel a little) is often aimed at students.
If someone near you can build a refrigerated cabin on a truck that is a fairly good and much cheaper option than getting it built in Europe. How would you register a truck in Europe while not living there, or at home without the truck being there? You may have to import it to home only to shortly afterwards export it back for travel. A new truck with expensive box on the back may incur some hefty charges/deposit at border entry points to prevent the risk of you selling undeclared in their country without paying them tax. Older trucks may incur lower charges. A Carnet is an agreement between some countries to get round that uncertainty for those countries who agree to that scheme but not all do and the cost of that varies depending on what you are driving, where you live and where you're going.
I have no connection to either, but I would suggest buying both of these now, they may help with many of your questions;
http://www.desertwinds.co.uk/expedition_guide.html or an older version second hand if you can find one.
https://www.selfbuildmotorhome.com/Main_navigation/Bookstore.html Included is a section on comparing some of the Euro box builders, their different approaches and material preferences.
I would suggest you will not be less than 10 tons once loaded for four people, especially if you end up with a three axle truck. Then more like 15.
You could consider a composting toilet instead of a cassette. Four people using only a cassette may mean a daily empty. A composting loo is basically a bucket with something like sawdust in the bottom, a small extractor fan and a funnel.
A top loading washing machine may be easier to design in. A top opening fridge will be more efficient. A domestic fridge may not like being bounced around. 100l of fridge may be a bit too big.
A wind turbine small enough to take with you won't be big enough to recharge a big battery bank.
Fresh water tanks should be inside then won't freeze.
You could make a scale version of a twenty foot container out of cardboard, and make similar sized versions of how much water, storage, living space etc you think you want and see how it could all fit, just as a guideline nothing super exact. You also just start from a sketched birds eye view floor layout, then paper pieces cut to scale etc. How much water do you drink at home per day? What size suitcase could contain all the clothes you think each person will take. I think you would find that everything you want to take will end up with something that does 5mpg
Good luck with your journey's!
Even though it is perhaps a little more for people on two wheels who don't appreciate big things, you could also research on the HUBB forum?
Entry requirements for your vehicle will probably be determined by relationships already (hopefully) established between your country and each of your destinations. They are usually overseen by a motoring organisation in your country. Visa info specific for you may be best obtained from the relevant consulates in your country?
Insurance for any given country is often bought at or very near the border into that country, and may be third party only. Good travel insurance for a year of travel (rather than a year of cover within which you only travel a little) is often aimed at students.
If someone near you can build a refrigerated cabin on a truck that is a fairly good and much cheaper option than getting it built in Europe. How would you register a truck in Europe while not living there, or at home without the truck being there? You may have to import it to home only to shortly afterwards export it back for travel. A new truck with expensive box on the back may incur some hefty charges/deposit at border entry points to prevent the risk of you selling undeclared in their country without paying them tax. Older trucks may incur lower charges. A Carnet is an agreement between some countries to get round that uncertainty for those countries who agree to that scheme but not all do and the cost of that varies depending on what you are driving, where you live and where you're going.
I have no connection to either, but I would suggest buying both of these now, they may help with many of your questions;
http://www.desertwinds.co.uk/expedition_guide.html or an older version second hand if you can find one.
https://www.selfbuildmotorhome.com/Main_navigation/Bookstore.html Included is a section on comparing some of the Euro box builders, their different approaches and material preferences.
I would suggest you will not be less than 10 tons once loaded for four people, especially if you end up with a three axle truck. Then more like 15.
You could consider a composting toilet instead of a cassette. Four people using only a cassette may mean a daily empty. A composting loo is basically a bucket with something like sawdust in the bottom, a small extractor fan and a funnel.
A top loading washing machine may be easier to design in. A top opening fridge will be more efficient. A domestic fridge may not like being bounced around. 100l of fridge may be a bit too big.
A wind turbine small enough to take with you won't be big enough to recharge a big battery bank.
Fresh water tanks should be inside then won't freeze.
You could make a scale version of a twenty foot container out of cardboard, and make similar sized versions of how much water, storage, living space etc you think you want and see how it could all fit, just as a guideline nothing super exact. You also just start from a sketched birds eye view floor layout, then paper pieces cut to scale etc. How much water do you drink at home per day? What size suitcase could contain all the clothes you think each person will take. I think you would find that everything you want to take will end up with something that does 5mpg
