Inside The Commercial Vehicle Center Building Michigan’s Work Trucks
Most dealerships sell you a truck and wave goodbye. A Ford Pro Commercial Vehicle Center does something different: it specs the chassis to the job, coordinates the body through Ford’s official upfit network, wires the equipment into the truck’s own electronics, finances both halves together, and then services the finished machine. Lasco Ford in Fenton runs all of it under one roof.
Commercial Desk
(810) 390-5550
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2525 Owen Road, Fenton, MI 48430
A Commercial Vehicle Center is Ford’s designation for a dealership equipped to run the entire commercial process: spec, upfit, software, financing and service. Lasco Ford holds that designation, which is why a landscaper, a plumber and a municipal road commission can all walk out with completely different trucks built from the same process.
What You Get
- Chassis, cab, wheelbase and drivetrain spec’d to the actual job
- Upfit coordinated through Ford’s official upfit network
- Ford Pro Vehicle Integration System 2.0 wiring and controls
- Vehicle and upfit financed together through Ford Pro FinSimple
- Heavy-duty service bays, Ford Master Technicians and mobile service
- Free delivery anywhere in Michigan
Worth Knowing
- Bodies are built by upfit partners, not by the dealership itself
- Custom factory orders take longer than pulling from stock
- Telematics features require an activated modem and subscription
- Class 6 and Class 7 designations reflect standard GVWR only
01 What A Ford Pro Commercial Vehicle Center Actually Is
The phrase gets used loosely, so it is worth being precise. A Ford Pro Commercial Vehicle Center is a Ford dealership that has been equipped and staffed to handle the full commercial experience rather than just the retail transaction. That means helping a business owner spec the correct vehicle for the work, coordinating the upfit through Ford’s official network of body builders, and connecting the result to Ford Pro financing, telematics and service.
The distinction matters more than it sounds. In the conventional model, a contractor buys a chassis cab from one place, drives it to a body shop somewhere else, waits for a dump bed to go on, arranges separate financing for the body, and then has no single party responsible when the hoist controls do not talk to the truck. Every handoff is a place where the timeline slips and the accountability blurs.
Lasco Ford’s Commercial Vehicle Center collapses those handoffs into one relationship. The dealership’s own framing is blunt about it: one partner for the whole job, covering vehicle, upfit, software and service. Truck, van or medium-duty, they spec it, order it and outfit it.
The value is not that a dealership can sell you a dump truck. It is that one team is accountable from the first phone call to the day the truck is earning money.
The Lasco Press
This aluminum dump body with an integrated work box is a good illustration of why spec work happens before the order goes in. The aluminum saves payload against a steel body. The work box means the crew stops carrying tools loose in the cab. Neither decision can be made after the truck is built.
- Chassis and wheelbase chosen around the body length
- Payload budgeted before the body is selected
- Ship-Thru ordering so modification happens pre-delivery
02 The Range: Maverick To F-750 Under One Roof
Very few dealerships can genuinely quote a compact hybrid pickup and a Class 7 medium-duty chassis in the same conversation. Lasco Ford’s commercial lineup spans essentially the entire Ford work vehicle catalog, which is what allows a growing business to keep buying from the same place as its needs scale from one van to a mixed fleet.
| Segment | Vehicles | Typical Commercial Use |
|---|---|---|
| Compact & Mid-Size | Maverick (hybrid available), Ranger | Sales fleets, light service calls, property management, low-cost daily runners |
| Full-Size Pickup | F-150, F-150 Lightning Pro | Crew trucks, supervisor vehicles, light towing, electrified jobsite power |
| Super Duty | F-250, F-350, F-450, F-550, F-600 | Dump bodies, service and utility bodies, plow prep, gooseneck towing, contractor bodies |
| Medium-Duty | F-650 (Class 6), F-750 (Class 7) | Heavy dump, rollback and wrecker, dry-freight box, municipal and utility equipment |
| Vans | Transit, E-Transit | Cargo racking, shelving, refrigerated bodies, delivery and mobile service |
| Cutaway & Stripped Chassis | E-Series, Transit cutaway, chassis cab | Cube bodies, ambulance and rescue, shuttle, box vans with liftgates |
The medium-duty piece is the part most Michigan businesses do not expect from a dealership their size. F-650 and F-750 trucks can be ordered and outfitted through the same commercial desk, with the 6.7L Power Stroke diesel or the 7.3L gas V8 depending on duty cycle. For a towing operator or a municipal fleet, that removes a long drive to a specialty truck center.
On the van side, the Transit lineup is deep enough to need a decoder, which Lasco publishes separately as a Transit body decoder covering roof heights, lengths and configurations. Businesses shopping in-stock work vehicles can search the dedicated Work Truck Solutions inventory, and anything that does not exist yet can go in as a custom factory order.
03 Bodies And Upfits: What Actually Goes On The Truck
The upfit is where a chassis becomes a business asset. Lasco Ford coordinates bodies through Ford’s official upfit network, including Ford Pro Ship-Thru built-to-order units that are modified before final delivery rather than after the customer takes possession. The catalog is broad.
Dump Bodies
Steel and aluminum dumps from contractor-grade Super Duty setups through heavy F-650 configurations, with landscape, dovetail and enclosed variants.
Service & Utility Bodies
Mechanic and crane-ready service bodies, utility bodies with compartment lighting and locking, plus full van shelving and bin packages.
Box Vans & Liftgates
Dry-freight boxes, cutaway cube bodies, over-the-cab configurations, refrigerated bodies and heavy-duty liftgate installations.
Flatbed & Platform
Flatbeds, stake and removable-side bodies, gooseneck and fifth-wheel prep, and arborist configurations for tree and landscape crews.
Tow & Recovery
Rollback carriers, wreckers, self-loaders and integrated recovery equipment on F-450 through F-750 chassis.
Aerial, Plow & Specialty
Bucket and aerial units, chipper bodies, sign trucks, plow and spreader prep, and first-responder ambulance and rescue bodies.
That list is not theoretical. The dealership’s own build gallery shows completed F-550 aluminum dumps, Super Duty contractor dumps, F-650 heavy dumps, over-the-cab box bodies, liftgate installations and fully racked Transit interiors, all delivered to Michigan businesses.
Cargo racking and bin packages are the least glamorous upfit and often the highest return. A plumbing or low-voltage tech who stops digging through a pile on the floor gets time back on every single call, every day, for the life of the van.
- Bin and drawer packages sized to the trade
- Ladder racks and cargo partitions
- Interior lighting and power distribution
- Available on Transit and all-electric E-Transit
04 Vehicle Integration System 2.0: The Part Nobody Sees
This is the genuinely modern piece of commercial upfitting, and the part that separates a Ford Pro Commercial Vehicle Center build from a body bolted onto a chassis. Ford Pro Vehicle Integration System 2.0 is hardware and software that lets upfit equipment tap into more than 100 vehicle signals, so the body and the truck behave as a single machine rather than two systems sharing a frame.
In practice that produces controls a driver actually uses:
| Capability | What It Does On The Job |
|---|---|
| Power Take-Off (PTO) | Runs dump hoists, pumps, cranes and aerial gear directly from the vehicle touchscreen |
| Vehicle Motion Inhibit | Prevents driving away with a raised bucket, an up dump bed or an open compartment door |
| Upfitter Idle | Powers equipment at the jobsite with the key removed |
| Scene & Strobe Lighting | Triggers scene lighting and strobes from a single button |
| Sub-Compartment Lock | Adds power locks on a second body, operated with the vehicle key fob |
| Auto-Eject Shoreline | Releases the shore-power cord automatically when the engine starts |
| Door & Gate Warnings | Warns the driver on the touchscreen when a door or gate is not secured |
| Automated Bed Tarp | Closes the dump tarp automatically when the truck is shifted into Drive |
Read that list as a safety and liability document rather than a feature sheet. Vehicle Motion Inhibit alone addresses one of the most expensive and most common failures in the utility and refuse trades. Automated tarp closure addresses a citation that municipalities write constantly. These are not conveniences, they are loss prevention.
Ford Pro walks through how upfitting and Vehicle Integration System 2.0 work together on fleet vehicles. Video: Ford Pro.
05 Software, Financing And Charging
Ford Pro Intelligence
Telematics on a work fleet is no longer a luxury add-on. Ford Pro Intelligence delivers GPS tracking, vehicle health alerts and driver insights from a single dashboard, which is how a company with fifteen trucks finds out about a developing problem before it becomes a tow bill. Telematics features require an activated modem and an active subscription.
Ford Pro FinSimple
Financing the chassis and the body separately is one of the quiet frustrations of buying work trucks, because a $65,000 truck with a $22,000 dump body is really one asset with one payback period. Ford Pro FinSimple offers commercial lease and finance options structured for business use, and the Lasco commercial team can structure the vehicle and the upfit together. Businesses can start the process through the Ford commercial credit application. Financing is subject to credit approval and not all customers qualify.
Electrification And Charging
The all-electric E-Transit and F-150 Lightning Pro are both available and both upfittable, which matters for last-mile delivery, municipal fleets and any operation with a fixed depot and predictable daily mileage. Ford Pro Charging and E-Telematics exist to handle the two questions every fleet manager asks first: where does it charge, and will it make the route. Lasco also maintains a general EV charging resource for buyers working through that math.
06 Service Built For Trucks That Cannot Sit
A work truck that is down is not an inconvenience, it is lost revenue with a daily rate. This is where a Commercial Vehicle Center designation has to prove itself, and it is the reason the service side of the operation is worth as much attention as the sales side.
Heavy-Duty Capacity
HD column lifts sized for everything from cargo vans to buses, so a medium-duty chassis does not get turned away for physically not fitting the shop.
Ford Master Technicians
In-house diagnostics, diesel work and warranty service handled by Ford-certified technicians rather than referred out.
Genuine Parts
Ford and Motorcraft parts on the shelf, plus Omnicraft coverage for the non-Ford vehicles in a mixed fleet.
Mobile Service
Maintenance and repairs performed at the yard or the jobsite. Ford operates the largest mobile service fleet of any full-line U.S. automaker.
Fleets can route work through the dedicated commercial service center or schedule Ford Pro Mobile Service to come to them. For a landscaping crew in July or a plow contractor in January, the difference between hauling a truck to Fenton and having a technician arrive at the yard is an entire working day.
An F-650 with a heavy dump body is the kind of unit most retail dealerships send elsewhere. Ordering and outfitting it through the same commercial desk that handles a Transit keeps one point of contact across an entire mixed fleet.
- F-650 Class 6 and F-750 Class 7 chassis available
- 6.7L Power Stroke diesel or 7.3L gas V8
- Serviced in-house on HD column lifts
07 Nine Trades, Nine Very Different Trucks
The clearest way to understand what a Commercial Vehicle Center does is to look at how differently the same process ends for different industries. Lasco Ford organizes its commercial work around the trades it serves most.
| Industry | Typical Vehicles | Common Upfits |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical & Low-Voltage | Transit, E-Transit, Super Duty | Cargo racking, bin packages, bucket and aerial, ladder racks |
| Landscaping & Lawn Care | F-250, F-350, F-450, F-600 | Landscape dumps, stake and arborist bodies, enclosed dovetail |
| Construction & Concrete | Super Duty, F-600, F-650, F-750 | Dump bodies, flatbed and stake, gooseneck-ready, contractor bodies |
| Plumbing & Mechanical | Transit, F-250, F-350 | Service and utility bodies, van shelving, crane-ready service |
| HVAC & Refrigeration | Transit, E-Transit, Super Duty | Interior racking, refrigerated bodies, service bodies |
| Delivery & Logistics | Transit, E-Transit, F-600, F-650 | Dry-freight box, cutaway cube, cargo partitions, liftgates |
| Towing & Recovery | F-450, F-550, F-600, F-650, F-750 | Rollback carrier, wrecker, self-loader, integrated recovery |
| Municipal & Utility | Super Duty, F-600, F-650, F-750 | Dump and plow-ready, bucket, service, chipper, sign trucks |
| Fire, EMS & First Responder | Super Duty, Transit, E-Series | Ambulance, rescue body, command, integrated scene controls |
08 From First Call To Road-Ready
The process itself is only four steps, but each one closes a door that normally stays open.
Step One: Spec The Job
Match chassis, cab configuration, wheelbase and drivetrain to the actual work, the actual payload and the actual routes. This is where most bad work truck purchases are prevented.
Step Two: Design The Upfit
Select the body and equipment through Ford’s official upfit network, with Ship-Thru ordering where the unit is built to order and modified before final delivery.
Step Three: Build & Integrate
The body goes on and Vehicle Integration System 2.0 is configured so the equipment and the truck share signals, controls and safety interlocks.
Step Four: Delivered & Supported
The finished truck arrives road-ready with financing structured, telematics live and a service relationship already in place. Free delivery anywhere in Michigan.
This Is Built For
- Contractors buying their first purpose-built work truck
- Growing trades outgrowing a pickup and a trailer
- Fleet managers running five to five hundred units
- Municipalities and road commissions with bid specs
- Towing and recovery operators needing medium-duty
- Delivery operations evaluating electrification
- Businesses wanting one accountable partner instead of four vendors
Probably Not For
- Personal-use truck buyers with no upfit requirement
- Anyone who needs a truck on the lot this afternoon
- Fleets already locked into a competing chassis platform
- Buyers wanting the absolute lowest sticker with no service plan
09 Why This One, In Fenton
The Commercial Vehicle Center designation is Ford’s. What a business is actually buying is the dealership behind it. Lasco Ford has been serving Michigan businesses for more than 35 years and is a back-to-back winner of the Ford Presidents Award, the manufacturer’s highest customer satisfaction honor, which it has now earned twice.
The practical arguments are simpler than the awards. Free delivery anywhere in Michigan means a fleet in Lansing or Detroit Metro is not driving to Fenton twice. Coordination through the Ford Pro Upfit Network means the customer is not managing a body builder relationship they did not ask for. And one integrated team means the person who spec’d the truck is still reachable when a question comes up eight months later.
Free delivery anywhere in Michigan, and most of a commercial purchase can be completed online or by phone. The commercial desk handles quotes, spec work and upfit coordination remotely for businesses that cannot spare a driver for the round trip.
- Genesee, Livingston and Oakland Counties
- Metro Detroit, Lansing and the Tri-Cities
- Free statewide delivery on commercial units
10 Michigan Service Area
Lasco Ford’s commercial team works with businesses across the state. Local coverage is heaviest in Fenton, Flint, Grand Blanc, Davison, Burton, Swartz Creek, Holly, Linden and Lake Fenton, with regular commercial work through Brighton, Howell, Hartland, Milford, Clarkston, Auburn Hills, Pontiac, Waterford, Oxford, Lake Orion and Lapeer. Statewide delivery extends the same program to Lansing and Detroit Metro and everywhere between.
The dealership is at 2525 Owen Road, Fenton, MI 48430. Directions and hours are on the Lasco Ford directions page, and the broader commercial program is outlined on the commercial and Transit solutions page.
11 Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Ford Pro Commercial Vehicle Center?+
Can Lasco Ford outfit a truck with a dump body, box, service body or crane?+
Do they sell medium-duty trucks like the F-650?+
Is the upfitting done in-house?+
What is Vehicle Integration System 2.0?+
Can the truck and the upfit be financed together?+
Are electric work vehicles available?+
What areas does Lasco Ford serve for commercial vehicles?+
How do I get a quote on a work truck?+
Spec It. Order It. Outfit It.
One partner for the whole job, covering the vehicle, the upfit, the software and the service. Free delivery anywhere in Michigan.
