The two specially fitted-out Long wheelbase Transits are being used by the trust to enhance its service to thousands of wheelchair users in South Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire and have been fitted with tail-lifts, workbenches, task lighting and storage space for wheelchairs and spare parts.
Technicians from the Trust's wheelchair and special seating service drive the vans to clients' homes to make deliveries and carry out on-the-spot repairs to all types of wheelchairs from lightweights to heavy motorised examples.
The new vans were fitted out by Mackworth Vehicle Conversion Specialists, of Derby, with Alphabet co-ordinating and guiding RDaSH through the upgrade, arranging a site meeting between Ken Harwood, the Trust's wheelchair supervisor, Neil Worral, Mackworth and Alphabet's commercial vehicle consultant.
Ken Harwood logistics manager at RDaSH, whose team runs 45 light commercial vehicles for 12 departments within the Trust said: “Alphabets Commercial Vehicle Consultant gave us all the guidance we needed. The new vehicles are everything we were looking for in terms of repair facilities, environmental issues, mpg and cost."
