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Acquisition

December 12, 2023

Extendobed Joins the
Adrian Steel Family

Extendobed is pleased to announce that it has been acquired by Adrian Steel Company, an industry leader of commercial cargo management solutions! Extendobed has built an exceptional reputation in the government and commercial service truck markets over the past 35 years with robust, high quality slide outs that extend past the taillights providing maximum access to the entire slide out. No other slide out in the market today extends past the taillights. Troy Simmons – Former Owner, is extremely pleased about what this opportunity means for his customers. “I was looking for a buyer that would be a good match to continue the reputation that Extendobed has earned in the marketplace, while expanding its product offerings to meet all our customers’ needs. Adrian Steel is that perfect match! Now, our customers can upfit any of their service trucks, vans and SUVs with the best cargo management systems, slide outs, ladder racks, toppers, and even graphics, from one company!”

Adrian Steel, founded in 1953, has grown to be a trusted partner for customers and fleets of all sizes across many vocational trades. This venture provides the opportunity for Extendobed customers to take advantage of Adrian Steel’s expanded product line while opening new markets for Adrian Steel with Extendobed’s strong presence with municipalities.

“We look forward to serving Extendobed customers with proven customizable solutions, service and reputation that they have grown to expect.”

Don DeLong, President
Adrian Steel

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The Power of an Organized Workspace

April 02, 2019

The Power of an Organized Workspace

It’s frustrating to have trouble finding a specific tool when you need it. But in some industries, there’s more at stake than just frustration. If you work in a specialized trade such as law enforcement, fire mitigation, or construction/repair, easily finding your tools could be the difference between life and death.

Maintaining your workspace in an organized and efficient manner has numerous benefits. These include the ability to control costs, increase output, and manage your equipment maintenance and replacement more effectively.

Different Applications, Similar Needs

Extendobed offers a variety of specialized options and accessories for specific applications. These options can be purchased separately or customized to meet customers’ needs and budgets. In either case, these setups help your employees do their jobs more efficiently.

In law enforcement, special equipment can include weapons and ammunition, explosives, materials to gather evidence, and highly trained K-9 dogs. Weapons, ammunition, and explosives can be safely stored in weapons drawers, custom compartments, and day boxes for easy access when needed. Evidence presents its own challenges: it must be collected carefully and stored securely in locking compartments, as chain of custody is crucial. Other specialized equipment must also be safely stored during transport. For example, K-9 dogs should be safely transported in secure kennels during incidents of high-speed travel and over different types of terrain.

In fire mitigation, where minutes are a matter of life and death, specialized equipment must be secure and quickly accessible. Special equipment and storage include:

  • magnetic and/or dry erase accountability boards in stand-alone and drawer pop-up configurations;
  • slide-out walls for fast, easy access to self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) mounts and hand tools;
  • custom structures for easy access to extrication and rescue equipment;
  • file drawers for information organization;
  • and multiple levels of storage for transport of larger equipment including awnings, coolers, stokes baskets, and backboards.

In construction, tools must be secured for both safety and to deter attempted theft. Generators, compressors, and other large portable equipment can be stored on slide-out trays so they are easy to access and remove from the vehicle. Hand tools, fasteners, and other small materials can be organized in locking drawers or tool boxes.

Having quick, reliable access to the correct tools isn’t always a matter of life or death in every industry. However, it’s still essential to effective job performance.

Equipment vs. Space

Any vehicle has a limited amount of space available. For some lines of work, this presents an interesting challenge: balancing the right tools and supplies with enough space to transport them. When you can bring only a certain amount of equipment with you, having a well-organized mobile space becomes even more important.

For example, an HVAC technician must be able to service countless combinations of systems — but a few tools are always useful: a cordless drill (and extra batteries), tape measure, hammer, and step ladder. Secure storage for transport ensures items aren’t damaged en route to a job. And organized storage is key for speed and efficiency once on the job site.

In law enforcement, the work isn’t over when the “bad guy” is in handcuffs. Evidence collection, cleanup, and record-keeping all require specialized supplies with specific storage needs.

What Efficiency Looks Like in Practice

Just as different industries have different needs, so do individual customers. Here are a couple of examples of how Extendobed created custom solutions for specific situations.

An electrician who was working for a municipality was injured lifting a piece of equipment out of his work van. His back injury required time off work to heal, as well as physical therapy, before he could return to his duties. As he healed, the question arose of whether he would be able to use the equipment the municipality owned when he returned to work. The municipality contacted Extendobed for a potential solution. Extendobed created a custom slide-out unit to house all of this electrician’s tools and equipment. Each of his tools are now accessible without risking reinjury. Without Extendobed’s solution, the employee could not have returned to work for the municipality.

A commercial door installer used to load and unload doors from his truck manually. Each set of doors took an hour to load and another hour to unload. So no matter how long an actual installation took, he spent two hours per job loading and unloading. His Extendobed allows him to load a full set of doors using a forklift, which saves two to four hours per day, depending on the number of jobs. This time savings has reduced his labor costs, allowing him to lower his bids. This in turn has resulted in more jobs, thereby increasing his revenue. He can also complete more jobs in a day, further adding to his bottom line.

Good Design is Key

A well-designed workspace is crucial to organization and efficiency, especially in specialized industries. Customized solutions exponentially extend the value of an organized and efficient workspace.

To learn how your mobile working environment will benefit from customized organizational solutions, email us at: websales@extendobed.com

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Using the Right Tools Increases Efficiency and Improves Safety

February 19, 2019

Using the Right Tools Increases Efficiency and Improves Safety

100% extension easy organization

Whether you work in law enforcement, fire safety, emergency services, or another professional services field, certain basic tasks are common before you depart for the day: You must ensure that you have all the tools and materials you will need to perform your job, organized in a safe and efficient manner. However, packing up all these tools and materials in the morning and after each job/call takes additional time and can be an organizational challenge. Having everything you need readily available makes a big difference in successfully performing your job — but you also need a safe and efficient method for transporting and quickly accessing your tools, parts, supplies, and equipment.

Safety Concerns

Safety is essential for workers across all industries, including safe access to equipment and supplies. You don’t want to put your workers in a situation where arriving at every job site causes unnecessary risk. Workers should be able to easily and safely access the tools to do their job, which immediately makes them more productive.

Heavy or awkward equipment can be difficult to get into or out of vehicles, increasing the risk of injury. In addition, equipment or supplies may shift in transit, making it even more difficult to access. Not having easy access as they load or unload their vehicles can easily injure workers’ backs, knees, and shoulders. Such injuries can be costly in terms of workers’ time off the job, potential lost work while they are out, and of course the increase in your workers’ comp insurance rates. Many times, the savings from avoiding even one back injury more than pays for equipment that improves worker safety.

Dangerous equipment and materials, such as firearms and chemicals, need even more careful handling during loading, transport, and unloading. These tools require specialized storage compartments where they can be safely secured, to protect not only the vehicle operator but also bystanders.

Efficiency

In addition to being safer, having well-organized workspaces on fire, police, and service vehicles also increases efficiency. Workers with well-organized service vehicles don’t have to spend time looking for their tools or supplies because they know right where everything is. Equipment that’s organized and easy to access allows service professionals to complete jobs quickly and finish more jobs in a day. It also reduces time spent on the job site or loading supplies, which lowers overall labor costs to make your proposals even more competitive.

Imagine the difference between packing your tools, equipment, and supplies every morning; climbing into the bed of your truck multiple times at each job site; digging through everything to find the right part or piece of equipment; and then repacking your toolbox and having to re-stow all of your parts, supplies, and equipment back into your truck bed after each job — versus being able to flip a latch; pull out a sliding bed; and select the part or tool needed or access heavy equipment such as tanks, air compressors, or generators without ever having to pick them up. Then after you complete your job you return everything to its place, ready to go for the next job without ever having to climb into the bed of your truck again. Multiply this time savings across every vehicle and every job, and you’ll see a significant increase in productivity and profitability.

Extendobed Solutions

Service vehicles are standardized to be useful to many industries — which is great until you have specialized needs for a specific industry. Extendobed creates custom solutions for any industry. Our products maximize your service vehicle’s space to provide efficiency and safety.

Extendobed offers telescoping truck bed extenders and custom enclosures for a variety of use cases. We provide solutions for various law enforcement and fire safety vehicles, as well as solutions for any type of service or work truck. For example:

  • Law enforcement — Equipment storage with containment caging can keep equipment in place, even while driving over rough terrain or at high speeds — making this kind of enclosure ideal for law enforcement or search and rescue vehicles.
  • Fire safety — In a fire support vehicle, our well-organized and easily accessible cubbies can store chemicals, equipment, communication equipment, and other supplies. Command center units are available with electronics panels, fold-down work tables, and dry-erase easels.
  • Government — Municipalities can use custom Extendobed installations to support water, power, or other utility workers with solutions that accommodate their specific needs.
  • Oil & gas, utilities, power, and pest control — All these industries can benefit from our custom storage and hauling solutions, with equipment mounted on slides and in cubbies designed to meet your specifications — so that everything stays put, even in rough transit, but is easily accessible once on the job site.
  • Other specialized industries — Commercial door installers can go from manually loading and unloading doors into their service trucks or walk-in trailers to being able to forklift-on and forklift-off their doors.
  • All industries — For any industry, our bookcase enclosures are designed to keep information, procedures, and forms in sensible order, with a place for everything.

Regardless of the industry, Extendobed’s installations keep tools, equipment, and supplies right at workers’ fingertips, maximizing efficiency and ensuring safety. With a wide variety of fixed units and sliding units for easier access, Extendobed’s applications are virtually endless.

The more complex and competitive our professional environments become, the more important it is to have quick, easy, and safe access to well-organized tools, equipment, and supplies — which quickly pays for itself in increased productivity and reduced work injuries. Find out why Extendobed is the best-in-class solution to customize your mobile work space by emailing us at websales@extendobed.com.

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Sawtooth

October 09, 2017

overlanding

AND CAMPING

SAWTOOTH

If you love to hop in your off-roading vehicle and just drive around while taking in everything that nature has to offer, then you’ll need one of our survival slide sportsman overlanding units. These slide-out beds will help you take advantage of every inch of your trunk space. The Sawtooth variation, in particular, is perfect for food storage for those longer trips. This survival slide sportsman overlanding unit has a large compartment that’s perfect for giant coolers.

SPECS

  • 60″ drawers
  • Full-length fridge slide
  • Easy access accessory drawer
  • Molle compatible

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provides efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

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Send us your email or phone number and we will contact you to customize this unit to fit your specific vehicle.
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Dog Kennel 3

October 04, 2017

DOG

kennels

STATIONARY KENNEL SUV

Dual dog kennel designed to sit behind the drivers seat in a SUV. This unit contains two removable kennels, an access door in-between to allow an exit path in emergency situations, and a base that contains drawers and extra storage space.

SPECS

  • Aluminum construction 
  • (2) Removable kennels
  • Access door in-between kennels
  • Base with under kennel storage space and aluminum drawers

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provide efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

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Send us your email or phone number and we will contact you to customize this unit to fit your specific vehicle.
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Dog Kennel 1

October 04, 2017

DOG

kennels

Truck Bed Dog Kennel Slideout

Whether you regularly have to transport dogs to your animal shelter or move them around for law enforcement purposes, letting them roam freely in you’re the bed of your truck is not a safe option for them. That’s why we’ve made this truck bed dog kennel slideout that allows easy access to all of the crates. Our aluminum construction is heavy-duty enough to keep the dogs separated in each of their kennels. It also contains removable walls, air vents, and a storage area to keep your gear in. Our K-9 units can have these kennels included as well.

SPECS

  • Aluminum construction
  • (4) Kennel areas
  • Removable wall in large kennel area
  • (6) Doors with laser cut air vents
  • (1) File drawer
  • 3′ x 2′ open storage area
  • Foldable access ramp
  • Full-front header

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provide efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

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Yuba

September 25, 2017

command

CENTER

YUBA

SPECS

  • Multilevel platform with board slot and safety screen
  • Fold-down table with second shelf and radio panel
  • Plywood mounting wall with optional bottle racks
  • Map/command board
    – FC-150, FC-151, FC-152

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provide efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

WANT TO CUSTOMIZE THIS UNIT?

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Whiteland

September 22, 2017

traffic

ENFORCEMENT

WHITELAND

SPECS

  • Upper platform with containment
  • Full-height safety screen
  • Scales rack, eight (8) scales with four (4) scales accessible from each side
    – PVE-533, PVE-532, PVE-531, PVE-530

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provides efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

WANT TO CUSTOMIZE THIS UNIT?

Send us your email or phone number and we will contact you to customize this unit to fit your specific vehicle.
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Thurston

September 22, 2017

traffic

ENFORCEMENT

THURSTON

SPECS

  • Scale racks
  • Fold-down writing table
  • Large book enclosure
  • Storage compartments
  • Passenger side drawer and fold-down table
    – PVE-521, PVE-520, PVE-525, PVE-524, PVE-523, PVE-522

Experience over 100% extension with this unit. 

This unit has a 3,000 lb capacity.

This unit provides efficient use of your vehicle with equipment storage.

WANT TO CUSTOMIZE THIS UNIT?

Send us your email or phone number and we will contact you to customize this unit to fit your specific vehicle.
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