Used Wheelchair Van Buying Tips
Article by The Wheelchair Van Team
Instead of buying a brand new wheelchair van, you can opt to get a used wheelchair van. Ideally, you want to contact a qualified evaluator about your particular needs, including limitations of the wheelchair user, seating requirements and additional equipment that’s to be installed in the van.From there, you’ll want to contact companies that are capable of reconditioning old used wheelchair vans with modern equipment necessary for the wheelchair user. Ideally, making sure you get warranties on parts provided to your used van along with a good service plan because sooner or later you’ll need it. To make your used van more affordable, it would prove wise to talk with your insurance company about getting a good rate for your van. You can also talk with organizations that offer nonprofit grant programs, veterans associations and state departments. Simply use http://www.google.com to find their contact info. You can also purchase a well-conditioned van at low cost and then take it to customization shop to “mold” the van to fit your particular needs. To find a suitable wheelchair van dealer, you can go to http://www.google.com and type in “used wheelchair van + your city”. (Of course, in place of “your city” you would insert your actual city or one a big one near you.) A decent list of websites belonging to dealers should pull up. From there, you want to contact these dealers with a plan in mind of exactly what your needs are for purchasing a used wheelchair van. Take into consideration that if you’re buying a used wheelchair van for business purposes, then you have to make sure you’ll comply with consumer safety laws and regulations. So be sure to tell your sales person the exact purposes of your van.Written by the Wheel Chair Van Buyers Guide Team. Go to http://www.Free-Wheelchair-Van-Buyers-Guide.com to see more free articles, tips and info. Updated weekly! This is the ultimate resource on wheelchair vans and van lifts
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Question by Staten Island Ferry: How come white people get mad when they see a wheelchair getting on the bus?
Today as soon as i deploy the lift, they started complaining, just like that. Dont they realize that they can be in that wheelchair someday?
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Answer by ♩ señora hermosa ♩ (Round 3)
Yeah now thats rude.
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|Most white people end up in wheelchairs, because they’re weak and frail, unlike us blacks.
just another bigoted question generalized white people in general. i was a cna for 7 yrs and most people get impatient any way wether white or blk honey whether theyre white or blk
lmao! I wanna take a ride on your bus! I bet you drive like a crazy man and laugh & talk with all the black people that sit near the front!
Experience the same thing last week. I mean this minority woman from Middle East was boarding the bus on a wheelchair and this white kid started laughing rudely and when the woman asked why, he slapped him and scream Heil Hitler.
I was shocked, I thought white people were generous loving, caring and sweet people. Maybe I’m wrong.
I am white and cannot say that I ever ended up complaining about the lift deploying for a bus but I don’t ride the bus that often….I’m betting some other races are bitching too.
It’s not only us white folks showing their asses on the bus these days…..
I am glad you asked this. I have been WAITING to tell someone off for this.
I am assuming that you are in a wheelchair? If not, then replace each instance of “you” with “they”.
You make everyone late. Everyone. Every single person on that bus. At the VERY least, you should pay double what an able-bodied person has to pay, and I mean that with every fiber of my being.
It takes about 4-6 minutes to deploy the lift, move the bench seats back, get the handicapped person on the bus, strap them in, move the lift back in and get rolling again. That happens twice; once getting on and once getting off.
A bus can hold upwards of 30-50 people. You just made every single one of them up to 12 minutes late to wherever they’re going. They might have just missed their transfer because of you, and now have to wait another hour. They might be late to work because of you.
No matter what, I don’t care; NO ONE is worth me giving up even 5 minutes of my life for, while I wait for them. If you need to get around, use the handicapped bus, call social services, get a conversion van, get some kind of government support; SOMETHING.
I would still hate it when a handicapped person got on the bus if you had to pay double, but that would soften the blow. Plus, if each city did that for a year or so, they could probably afford a small fleet of handicapped-only buses.
I don’t care if I am without compassion. I DON’T care about you. All you do is slow me down, make me late and force me to suffer because of YOUR disability. Your brain works just fine. You should be able to understand why people get angry.
And it’s not just white people. You make ALL the people on the bus late, not only whitey.
Everyone is thinking the same thing I am saying here, they just are too polite or too afraid to say it out loud. Not me.
I scowl at handicapped people on the bus. I DON’T get out of their way. I DON’T allow them to go before me. If one of them runs over my foot (it’s happened, dozens of times), I blast them for it; I don’t just try to be understanding.
I am being inconvenienced sometimes to the point where it affects my money. That’s even worse. So, I hope I gave you a good enough reason not to keep holding people up. I don’t care if you’re crippled. I’M not, and I don’t want to have to suffer just because you are. I simply don’t care about you at all, until you negatively affect my day, which you do, every single time you get on my bus.
because it takes time. but i think it is good that buses accommodate people with disabilities. It’s got to be very hard to be a person in that sitiuation.
For the same reason as people of other races get mad when they see that. They are impatient and unwilling to spend a couple of minutes of their life waiting for someone who has a harder time getting around than others. They think that their needs are somehow more important than other people’s needs. None of those egoists give it a thought that they might need a wheelchair themselves one day and be the ones needing that lift and the ones being harassed over it.