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As a member of the engineering team that’s been working on BraunAbility’s newest wheelchair van, I’m excited to introduce the Entervan XT! With over 56” of sliding door clearance and a lower, more wheelchair-friendly ramp angle, this van is a great choice for customers who sit higher in their wheelchairs.
My father-in-law, Tim, is one of …
Is it possible? Can we produce a higher quality wheelchair van in less time than it took just a couple months ago? If you would have asked me this six months ago, I would’ve said something like, “We’d obviously like to, but we don’t know how.” Ask me that now and I’ve got one word …
The strength of our dealer network is something I’ve heard a lot about in my first few months with BraunAbility, but it wasn’t until I spoke with 29-year-old Carrie Greenwood of Kansas that I truly understood the importance of a strong dealer/customer relationship.
Carrie has a physical disability called Arthrogyposis, which limits her range of mobility …
BraunAbility’s UVL (Under Vehicle Lift) achieves an optimal combination of convenience, reliability, and accessibility. It’s just as the name suggests- a wheelchair & scooter lift that stores safely & automatically underneath your full-size van until you need it. Mounting the wheelchair lift platform on the underside of the vehicle allows more room inside your mobility …
I recently attended the CTAA show (Community Transportation Association of America) and had an opportunity to mingle with many of our commercial customers and dealers. BraunAbility attends these shows on a regular basis throughout the year. Some of them focus on transit customers and some on consumer, private use customers. Both types give us at Braunability …
Reliability and dependability are our engineers’ top two priorities when designing wheelchair vans. Without these two qualities, we could not stand behind the BraunAbility brand name.
That’s easy to say, but it helps to have some proof. That’s why when Jim Newby of Newby-Vance Mobility told us that one of his customers was driving a nine-year-old …
When I first met Ralph Braun, I was just a young man interested in the new wheelchair lift he’d invented. I came across an advertisement for the lifts in a magazine, and since I didn’t live too far away, I thought I’d drive over to Winamac to see it firsthand. I joke now that the …
You probably can’t be too paranoid about safety when it comes to your kids, but my wife would tell you that I come close.
We have three kids under the age of four. Making sure they avoid disaster is a never-ending, anxiety-filled job. One is perpetually “climbing walls” as Spiderman, and another is just learning to …
At BraunAbility we love to hear stories of customers who defy the common stereotypes of their “disability”. I recently talked to such a customer - Curtiss Wilson of New Mexico - who was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), or “brittle bone disease”. The dominant characteristic of this genetic disorder is fragile bones that break very …
Last week I wrote about ways to make sure both you and your mobility van are well-prepared for a summer road trip and some steps you can take to avoid unexpected, unpleasant surprises along the way. But what’s the fun of being ready for a trip without an idea of where to go or what …