If you're involved with your city government and are looking to purchase new animal control trucks, you could be wondering what you should look for. Of course, there are various types of animal control trucks that are used in various parts of the country, but you probably want to purchase the best trucks you can. Here are some of the things you'll probably want to look for.
Easy Loading
Loading an animal that doesn't want to get in the truck isn't easy. Therefore, you'll want to choose a truck that makes the loading job a little bit easier and safer for the handlers. For example, you'll want to look for cage doors that are easy for handlers to open, sometimes even with just one hand. You'll probably also want loading ramps.
Secure Cages
Of course, once animals are placed in the cages of the animal control truck, it's important to ensure that they are secure - for their own safety and the safety of the public. Therefore, even though cages should be easy for handlers to open, they should be secure enough that animals will not be able to open them.
Ample Space
Making sure that your animal control truck has large enough cages is important for two reasons. For one thing, animal control officers might find themselves dealing with large animals at times, which means that the officers will need to have cages that are large enough so that these large animals can fit. Otherwise, the animal control officers could find themselves dealing with large animals that they cannot contain.
Secondly, it's important to ensure that the cages are large enough that animals can be housed comfortably. When an animal has been picked up by animal control, it might be very distressed. And a busy animal control officer might get several other calls that they need to respond to before they can take animals can to the animal shelter.
If the cages are too small, animals might not have enough room to comfortably sit or lie down, which can make the situation even more distressing and uncomfortable for them. Make sure the truck has cages in a couple of sizes and that at least some of the cages are large enough in size to hold larger animals.
Proper Separation
An animal control officer might have multiple animals on board at one time. It is important to make sure that these animals are well-separated from one another. Otherwise, the animals could fight and injure one another, spread diseases, or males and females could mate, resulting in the female becoming pregnant.
Therefore, while the animal control truck should have enough room to hold and transport multiple animals at one time, it's important to make sure that the cages have proper separation. This can help keep the animals safe and prevent a multitude of problems for animal control officers.
Compact Size
Even though an animal control truck should have ample space for multiple cages that are of a reasonably large size, the truck should be designed in a way that the body is still somewhat compact.
Animal control officers often have to drive these vehicles onto cramped city streets, alleys, and tight parking spots. The truck should be compact enough that it's easy to maneuver in these situations.
As you can see, there are various considerations that you need to keep in mind when buying an animal control vehicle. Fortunately, we can help. Contact usat Diamond Truck Body Manufacturing Inc. today so that we can tell you more about the types of animal control truck bodies that we can build. Then we can help you build one that's perfect for your needs.
