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Based in the community of Rumford, Maine,
Professional Vehicle Corporation is a leading
supplier of vehicular solutions crucial to the needs
of emergency medical services, commander/
responder operations and law enforcement units.
Simply put, Professional Vehicle Corporation is a
provider of vehicles specially designed to maximize
on both the operational performance and safety of
those who rely on these resources. Performance
and occupant-safety are factored into every
product supplied from the company, and they
publically publish findings of crash test studies
analyzing the integrity of their vehicles. For more
than 17 years, Professional Vehicle Corporation and
its customers has benefited from a strategic
partnership the company maintains with American
Emergency Vehicles, a nationally-leading supplier
of vehicles which include Type I, II and III
ambulances, as well as Medium-Duty, specialty
vehicles and much more. From small
volunteer-based services and for-profit
corporations with multiple locations to
municipality-owned service providers, Professional
Vehicle Corporation can customize vehicles to
accommodate most needs. The company also
maintains one of the industry’s most extensive
inventories of parts essential to the upkeep of
equipment and ships parts daily to locations
throughout the United States. Professional Vehicle
Corporation additionally provides maintenance
services from its center in Rumford, as well as
through its mobile service operations which travel
to locations throughout New England. Whether it is
the vehicle, the parts or maintenance services, law,
fire and EMS professionals steer to Professional
Vehicle Corporation.
For more information on the company’s services,
phone 800-894-7788 or visit online at
www.provc.net.
training to become a nationally registered
paramedic, and later enrolled in Health Ser-
vice Management courses at the University
of Maryland; in fact, he earned his degree
during the very same year that he founded
Capital Ambulance, serving the Maine com-
munities of Augusta and Bangor. Capital
Ambulance was not only the first service in
Maine to implement a Critical Care Trans-
port program, but was also the first to create
a neonatal transport program, in collabora-
tion with Eastern Maine Medical Center. In
1995, Capital Ambulance secured acclaim as
a recipient of the Governor’s Business Excel-
lence Award.
Throughout all that time, Dennis Brock-
way was directing operations at Delta Am-
bulance, one of Maine’s largest not-for-prof-
it services. Much like McCarthy, Brockway
was smitten by the profession when he was
a teenager. In 1971, Brockway was only 16
years old (and only trained inRedCross First
Aid) when he began working for ArrowAm-
bulance ofWaterville. Being called to action,
and reveling in that awareness that comes
from helping others and knowing your role
in alleviating their pain; proved so enticing
to Brockway that it also inspired him to be-
come an EMT. He was only 17 when he be-