Delivery vehicle and method for delivery of consignments to different sites along a delivery route

A delivery vehicle for delivery of consignments to different sites along a delivery route, with a loading space comprising a shelf system for shelves holding consignments, characterized in that the shelf system is configured to receive shelves in a plurality of storage positions for provision of the shelves and in at least one extraction position for extraction of consignments from the shelves, and that the shelf system has at least one adjustment device for adjusting the shelves of the shelf system between several storage positions and the at least one extraction position;

• wherein the shelf system has a grid with an empty space without a shelf in the manner of a shifting puzzle and according to which a shelf of the shelf system adjacent to the empty space is provided so as to be displaceable in a longitudinal direction or in a transverse direction with respect to the grid onto the empty space;
• wherein the at least one adjustment device is configured to adjust at least one of the shelves, the adjustment device has a guide device comprising a rail system arranged above the shelves for guiding the shelves in the shelf system between several storage positions and the extraction position, wherein rails of the guide device are connected to each other by a series of T-pieces and crossings and the shelves are moveable along individual ones of the rails in two, three or four directions depending on a position of the shelves at which the shelves are connected to the guiding device;
• wherein the at least one adjustment device is configured to adjust the shelves in any storage position in the longitudinal direction and in the transverse direction along the rails of the rail system into any adjacent storage position in the shelf system;
• wherein the shelves have castors or rollers to be moved in the longitudinal direction and in the traverse direction standing on the floor of the delivery vehicle;
• and
• wherein a locking device is assigned at least to individual shelves for locking the respective shelves in the storage position.