Specialty Vehicles General
Financing a New Mobile Veterinary Clinic
It’s been a while since we’ve written about the ins and outs of financing a mobile clinic. A long, long while. At the time of our last blog about financing, we had just emerged from the aftermath of the global financial crisis and rates were starting to inch up. Many of us assumed that rates…
Read MoreService Your La Boit Vehicle by Sealing It!
You may have heard the saying, “Water seeks its own level.” In a way, it’s kind of a comforting thought. All over the earth, all water is essentially trying to find its way back to the sea. Even the rain that falls on your specialty vehicle is just trying to go home. Unfortunately, that might…
Read MoreLa Boit Engineers with Safety in Mind
At La Boit Specialty Vehicles, we talk a lot about the difference between a custom built specialty vehicle and a converted RV, bus, or box truck. But even though we talk about it a lot, it might not be immediately clear to our customers what exactly that means. Our customers aren’t experts in mobile clinic…
Read MoreLa Boit’s New CNC Machine: Fast and Accurate
La Boit Specialty Vehicles recently installed a new CNC Machine at our facility that will help us deliver vehicles faster, with less waste and more accuracy. CNC stands for Computer Numeric Control. Basically, it’s a machine that has a computer-controlled router that can make precise cuts in a variety of different materials to create separate…
Read MoreReopening Your Mobile Business During COVID-19
La Boit clinics are built with all non-porous solid surfaces for easy cleaning! Even as businesses across the country have begun to open, COVID-19 will be a reality that we’ll continue to live with for quite some time. “Social distancing” is now part of our daily lexicon. Some consumers will continue to be skittish of…
Read More2019 Year in Review
2019 was all about making moves for La Boit clients. A move to start a new mobile practice, a move to make an impact in the opioid crisis, or a move to launch a new mobile training initiative. For many La Boit clients, the day they take delivery of their mobile clinic is their first…
Read MoreLa Boit Specialty Vehicles Releases New Trailer
We recently completed a mobile veterinary trailer for a client in Indiana. We’ll be spotlighting that client in another blog. For now, we’d like to focus specifically on the trailer itself. This is the first time in many years that La Boit Specialty Vehicles has built a mobile medical or veterinary trailer from the chassis…
Read More2017 Year in Review
2017 was La Boit’s 35th year in business, and let me tell ya, it was a great one! We continued to deliver what some of our customers have affectionately referred to as the “Cadillacs of Specialty Vehicles.” And of course, we did it with the best customer service in the business. A big part of…
Read MoreUsing Grants to Help Fund Your Specialty Vehicle
Many types of La Boit Specialty Vehicles are built using grant funds, with the most frequent types being Mobile Spay/Neuter/Adoption Clinics, Mobile Medical Clinics, and Mobile Command Centers. Grant dollars for medical and command vehicles most often come from the federal or state government, in which the mobile unit will serve a specific public interest…
Read More2016 Year in Review
34 years young… That’s how many years La Boit Specialty Vehicles has been in business, since owner and founder Gil Blais started working out of his garage building custom vet boxes for mobile veterinarians. And since then, we’ve shown no signs of slowing down! 2016 was a banner year for us as custom coach builders…
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