Based on our experience with supplying our twin skin ABS canopy to Ford of Europe for 8 years, I would make the following observation: in general Europe is not a canopy roof loading market. I think an approach for the EU (and Russia) markets would be to offer the roof loading as a “Dealer Fit Accessory”. The has two advantages (1) only the customers who want roof loading pay for it, hence reducing the canopy price for most customers and (2) the container loading increased from 26 to 33 if the roof rails are not fitted which reduced the logistics expense / canopy.
Please let me know if I need to provide further input.