ly, there is such an organization – the PBA found inTech Trailers out of Nappanee, Indiana. The company caught the PBA
eye with one important edge on the competition.
“The company was pretty new, maybe six years old, but it already had a fair amount of government and military business,”
Colligan recalls. “It’s virtually impossible to bid on military
work, so if you have military work that early in your existence,
that’s a pretty good indicator of being able to build a state-ofthe-art trailer.”
Colligan and Hulse made a trip to the inTech plant to see
an equally-state-of-the-art production process, and put in an
order for the new trailer right then and there. The PBA was sent
computer-aided design drawings and/or photos on nearly a
daily basis to track building what turned out to be a 22-feetlong-by-8-feet-wide body with a 26-foot overall length that is
about two stories high with the observation deck. Hulse noted
how the back-and-forth exchanges with inTech led to the development of many of the innovative features.
When it was completed in April, Hulse and Haase drove the
truck to Indiana to bring it back. The wrap that was then applied to both the trailer and the truck went through a process
as meticulous as the construction and manifested in designs
that define and enhance the PBA’s presence at the events.
“It’s a work vehicle equipped with its own power, good lighting on the inside and the outside and can operate at any time
of the day or night,” Haase offers. “It can go anywhere at any
time and do just about anything. If John could figure out how
to get it on a barge, we could turn it into a vessel.”
Haase joked that he is not sure if the armor plating is up to
snuff and that they decided not to put any gun turrets on the
Special thanks to New Jersey State Park Police Sergeant Thomas Norton (not
pictured) and Officers Bairon Serna (left) and Brian Todaro for their help in
setting up the PBA’s new trailer and truck to shoot the photos that appear in
this story and on the cover of the July issue of NJ COPS.
roof. But it’s a sturdy ship, and with the generator, fold-out
canopy tents packed inside and enough infrastructure to serve
thousands of people at events, the new PBA trailer will be like
its own village.
“People will know immediately where we are at,” President
Colligan concludes. “I’m really happy with the way it came out.
It’s a trailer that represents our organization: high quality, topshelf, best of the best.” d
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