Mobile Bunkhouse Trailers

Grant Stahla, Co-owner of Stahla Services, a nationwide provider of restroom, shower, and ADA trailer rentals again joins Enterprise Radio.
On this episode, the focus will be on the Mobile Bunkhouse Trailers, all the benefits and the specifics of renting this particular trailer for your needs.
Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Grant Stahla discuss the following:
(Host Eric Dye):  Grant, why should our listeners care about bunkhouse trailers right now?
(Guest Grant Stahla): Yeah, that’s a great question, Eric. Let me pose up a situation and then that can kind of kick off this intro of why they should care about this. So a Wildfire Base Camp. There’s fifty exhausted firefighters kicking off their boots and crawling into a chilled bunk. They have A/C humming, gear stowed and doors locked down. That’s a situation where without that they would be burning precious hours, shuttling to town and not able to stay on site and then wake up and directly start fighting fires right away. So in these 15 minutes, I’m gonna share how exactly bunkhouse trailers keep mission critical teams rested anywhere, just like one of the camp bosses said, “those bunks saved us a 2 hour road trip every day”!
(Host Eric Dye): First things first—what exactly counts as a mobile bunkhouse trailer?
(Guest Grant Stahla): Yeah. Yeah, that’s a great question. These are definitely unique trailers, specialty trailers, so I’m happy to go into that. So bunkhouse trailers are self-contained, sleep modules on wheels. They’re climate controlled, code compliant and you can tow them in and tow them out in hours. They first had a big push after Hurricane Katrina, and now they’re the standard for FEMA, wildfire, oil and gas man camps, music festivals and film sets. Typical deployments are anywhere from 1 to 16 weeks stents where hotels are scarce or budgets are tight. So let’s crack one open and see what’s under the skin.
(Host Eric Dye): Grant, give us the guts, what’s inside these trailers that makes them livable?
(Guest Grant Stahla): You bet. So they all have sleeping pods, so they’re single or double stack bunks with 80 inch hospital grade mattresses is a typical size. For the HVAC, you usually have a three and a half ton package units or twin 13,500 BTU roof A/C’s to keep those temperatures nice and cool. For the safety features, there’s emergency egress windows, fire extinguisher stations and smoke and carbon monoxide. alarms. For plumbing, usually you don’t have plumbing on these units since they’re just sleeping units. And then for power, sometimes it’s twin 50 amp shore feeds or you have an onboard diesel generator for off grid operations or there can be three or four connections to 15 amp, 120 Volt power, so that wraps up some of the core anatomy and the tech of those bunkhouse trailers.
(Host Eric Dye) : Who are the big players, and what sets each trailer apart?
(Guest Grant Stahla): You bet. So obviously, if you’re looking at renting a bunkhouse trailer, reach out to us at Stahla.com. You can give us a call at 844-900-3190 or e-mail us at [email protected]. Some of the big manufacturers you have Satellite Industries, they make an 8, 10 and a 12 station bunkhouse. Porta Kleen, they make a 53 foot mobile bunkhouse on a semi trailer. Jag Mobile Solution makes an 8 Unit, 10 unit and a 12 unit and they make semi-trailers as well. And then Lang Specialty Trailers makes 8 units and 16 un...