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Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles custom designed and built a mobile occupational health testing vehicle for Banner Health. The 38’ motorhome, equipped with a 13’ slide out room, allows Banner to deliver quality health care services such as Audiograms, Physical Exams, Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT), Urine Drug Testing, Breath Alcohol Testing, DOT Exams, Laboratory Screening, Respiratory Fit Testing, Electrocardiograms (EKG), Mini Health Fairs, Immunizations/Vaccinations, and flu shots.

The mobile medical unit was built with 2 one-person hearing testing booths, a medical exam table, 2 eye testing stations, 2 bathroom/sampling rooms, a blood draw station, and custom work stations with computer networking throughout the vehicle. The Occupational Health Testing Vehicle will benefit Banner Health by allowing them to expand on their existing mobile and on-site health services. If you would like to learn more about the Occupational Health Testing Vehicle, please visit the Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles website.

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety held their 2010 Holiday DUI Enforcement Kickoff News Conference at the Arizona State Capitol on Tuesday, November 30th.  The AZGOHS announced the purchase of six new DUI enforcement vehicles for various city DUI task forces with federal dollars.  The first vehicle will go to the City of Glendale and is currently in production at Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles in Tempe, AZ.  The DUI vehicles were bought and built locally, keeping all of the tax dollars in Arizonan’s hands.  To see more videos from the AZGOHS Holiday DUI Enforcement Kickoff News Conference, visit our YouTube channel.

Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles will be exhibiting at the CopsWest 2010 tradeshow on Tuesday, November 16^th and Wednesday, November 17^th in Ontario, California.  Stop by our booth (#1020) to discuss your specialty vehicle needs!

CopsWest is the premiere tradeshow for innovations in law enforcement equipment, services, and training.  The tradeshow, an exclusive for direct employees of public safety agencies, city departments, and county departments will feature seminars on topics such as parole issues, suicide awareness and prevention, PTSD, substance abuse in law enforcement, and active shooters.

To view more specialty vehicles, visit our website.

DUI Unit Built by Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles for the City of Glendale

The City of Glendale has cut the DUI fatality rate in half using Quality Vans' DUI vans.

Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles’ DUI unit built for the City of Glendale was featured in The Arizona Republic today.  The article states that Arizona’s DUI fatality rate is cut in half over 15 years.  Our DUI unit provides the City of Glendale with the resources and technology they need to crack down on impaired driving.  To read more about the program and the upcoming Labor Day task force, visit AZcentral.com.  To view more information and images on the DUI unit we built for the City of Glendale, please visit our website.

“The purchase will provide emergency back-up radio communications to the first responders in the East valley in the event of a radio system failure. The base station is a miniature dispatch center that will be placed in the portable trailer. In the event of an outage, trained employees from the dispatch center will move into the trailer and will have the ability to dispatch up to five channels. It will fully support the eight (8) Police and Fire agencies which the Mesa Police Department currently dispatches. In addition, the base station will provide support for UASI programs, including Rapid Response Team, and will allow for supplemental communications capacity during events and basic communications levels in areas where no system coverage exists. A free-standing system will bolster capacity in areas with coverage, allowing normal day-to-day operations to continue uninterrupted in areas with existing systems.  The base station will provide basic repeated communications abilities in areas where none or limited radio coverage exists.”

Quality Vans was awarded the contract as the lowest responsible and responsive bidder in conjunction with Motorola, who will be supplying the radio system equipment.  The 38’ gooseneck trailer will include 5 workstations with access to the network, a lavatory, food preparation area with dedicated drinking water cooler and sink, pneumatic antenna mast, and Motorola GTR8000 Deployable Repeater System equipment, and all cabinet doors will be furnished with dry erase boards.  The trailer will also include a Cummins-Onan diesel powered generator mounted in a custom fabricated galvanized steel compartment.  The Mobile Communications Redundancy Base Station will be completed and delivered to the City of Mesa by August 31, 2010.

7000 Series Mass Casualty Triage Trailer

Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles and Rescue U Emergency Vehicles are in the beginning stages of discussing possible partnership opportunities.  We are in communications with Gene Maloney, President/Owner of Rescue U Emergency Vehicles, about his mass casualty trailers and are looking for ways to cross-market our products.

Rescue U provides a line of disaster preparedness products focusing mostly on mass-casualty and triage trailers.  They supply medical trailers that are fully stocked and ready to respond when delivered.  The trailers are standardized for mutual aid response and can be pre-positioned around the community for disaster preparedness.  Gene Maloney has spent years in the disaster preparedness industry doing research to develop the best solution to mass casualty incidents.  He is continually coming up with innovative designs that improve the efficiency and response rate of medics during emergencies.

We believe there is a great potential for us to work together to provide the best and most advanced products to our customers.

Public Safety Communication Equipment Conference

Quality Vans is attending the IWCE conference this week in Las Vegas to learn about the latest trends in public safety communication. The conference will feature solutions in land mobile radio, PCS/Cellular, Antennas and Accessories, Telematics/Mobile Data, 802.11/Wi-Fi/WiMax, RF Engineering, VoIP, GPS/Location Based Systems, Towers, Surveillance Equipment, Networks & Systems, Infrastructure, Interoperability Solutions, and Intelligent Radio.

Bird Technologies Group will be showcasing a Spectrum Analyzer available for rack mounting.  It allows you to remotely analyze the radio frequency spectrum, measure intended and inferring signals, remotely display signal amplitude versus frequency and save traces to your PC, eliminate trips to difficult remote locations, and manage multiple sites from one centralized location all from the comfort of your own office.

Larsen Antennas introduces an NMOHFGPS series that combines the Larsen NMOHF (high frequency) mount with a GPS module. The Larsen NMOHF mount operates at frequencies from 27 MHz to 6 GHz allowing for a variety of Larsen antennas to be combined with the GPS module to provide reliable, real time voice and data coverage.

We plan to use the insights we learn and connections we make at IWCE to integrate cutting-edge technology into our public safety vehicles.

"Built by Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles"

The City of Phoenix took ownership of their custom-built HazMat Response Vehicle on February 19, 2010. The vehicle was designed by Quality Vans and Specialty Vehicles on a Freightliner MT-55 chassis and specially outfitted for hazardous material incident response.

This vehicle will help the City of Phoenix to act quickly and to isolate and secure the scene. The HazMat Response Vehicle is equipped with generous interior and exterior storage for easy access to HazMat suits, decontamination supplies, and other specialized equipment. It is also a fully equipped command and communications vehicle to help maintain control through unpredictable situations.

To learn more about the City of Phoenix Hazmat Response Vehicle, visit our website.

"Ben Schwartz with his Raptor Rehabilitation Van"

Ben Schwartz started his company, Raptor Rehabilitation, in 1999 after the idea hatched in northern Minnesota around a campfire.  His friend said to him, “Life in the Wild is Seldom Mild” and the rest is history.

Raptor Rehabilitation started out as a rehabilitation program, but quickly grew into an opportunity to educate the public about these misunderstood and fascinating critters.  Schwartz traveled all around to schools in Arizona and eventually moved on to Minnesota after he realized the intense interest kids had in his “foreign” reptiles there.

He carried a total of 10 critters with him around the country using an animal transportation van Quality Vans built specifically for him.  To mention a few, he carried two falcons, a Gray Horned Owl, a Western Screech-Owl, and a tarantula.  Schwartz has enough Federal and State permits to set up a large scale zoo.  Schwartz said the work Quality Vans did for him really helped him over the years.  The A/C units installed in the van withstood all kinds of climate and temperature change.  According to Schwartz, 80% of birds of prey die within the first year and that number is amplified when you introduce captivity.  In the seven years Schwartz transported his critters, he didn’t lose a single one.

His journey to educate the nation on reptiles peaked in 2007 when he did 150 programs in one year.  Schwartz has since started a new leg of his business.  He uses birds of prey to chase away nuisance birds from airports and vineyards.  Over a couple hours, a flock of nuisance birds can decimate a vineyard’s crop by 30%.  Schwartz’ job is to fly his falcons every couple hours to protect the crops.

So, what’s next for Raptor Rehabilitation?  Schwartz is on his way to Tucson, Arizona to train two falcons for abatement; then he’s off to follow the grape harvest across the country.