Is your town or city in need of one or more new animal control vehicles? If your current animal control officers are running out of room in a cramped truck or don't have the ability to keep multiple animals properly separated, this could lead to an unsafe or inhumane situation for your workers or the animals in their care.
A local custom truck body manufacturer that makes animal control vehicles can help you design a custom truck to suit your specific needs. You can likely select from a pre-designed truck body or have one built to your exact specifications. Here are some key safety features to keep in mind when drawing up the plans for your new animal control truck body.
Lockable Interior Cage Door
The first priority for any animal control service is to protect the officers who are handing the animals. When placing an animal inside the truck, the animal should be secured within an interior cage with its own locking mechanism that is separate from the main lock on the outer doors of the trailer.
Use a T-shaped locking mechanism crafted from stainless steel or another durable material to ensure your officers will never encounter an animal that's broken out of its interior cage while inside the vehicle.
Ample Room for Separation and Ventilation
Your control officers may pick up multiple wild animals while out on the job. Every animal should have its own cage with enough room to move freely and enough ventilation to ensure comfort. If your current animal control truck body are a bit cramped, this is an opportunity to build a vehicle with multiple storage bays featuring interior cages of different sizes while also including better ventilation to ensure humane treatment no matter how long the animal remains in truck.
Storage Space for Officer Safety Gear
The main feature of any animal control truck body is of course the interior cages to lock and secure the animals. But you can also custom design a truck to feature additional storage bays that are designed to store your animal control safety gear.
Your officers will likely wear gloves or face protection while on the job and might need certain tools to keep dangerous animals at a distance. Build additional storage into the truck body so your officers don't have to cram this gear into the truck cabin or consider hitting the road without everything they need.
Features to Make Loading and Unloading Simple
Beyond the right tools to keep an irritated or upset animal at a distance during handling, your animal control truck body should also include an adjustable ramp that can be used to wheel the interior cages off of or back onto the vehicle. This will ensure your officers can load or unload while keeping their distance as opposed to walking up to the cage and picking it up by hand.
Animal control officers have an obligation to keep the animals they pick up as safe as possible while on the road. You of course also want to ensure absolute safety for the officers themselves. By working with custom truck body firm, you can design a new animal control vehicle to have the proper amount of security and space to make both the animals and the officers as comfortable as possible.
Diamond Truck Body Manufacturing has crafted custom truck bodies since 1979. Our experienced team can sit down with your animal control operation and work out exactly what you need. We'll help you create something that's both effective and safe, keeping these safety features in mind.
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