Welcome to the inaugural column for HearseHub.com! Those not familiar with HearseHub.com will find it similar to Autotrader or Cars.com, but dedicated exclusively to funeral vehicles. HearseHub allows you to access new and used funeral vehicles from a number of unique dealerships, all located in one easy-to-use website. Funeral Home and Cemetery News realized the need for such a site. We’re proud say that HearseHub has been a driving force in the industry for the last five years and it has yet to reach its top speed!
While we’re very proud of our new car features, our pre-owned features are the pride of our lot. We recognize the challenges you face in matching your fleet-specific model, body manufacturer, color, year, etc. Simply put: sourcing a specific vehicle can be daunting. Recognizing the unique needs of our customers, HearseHub decided to make the process easy and streamlined, allowing you to view multiple dealership inventories at once. Find us today at the Funeral Home and Cemetery News website, or at HearseHub.com.
In this column you’ll find a variety of fascinating stories from body manufacturers, parts dealers, and even you. While many will find the industry news important and interesting, we will strive to make the column compelling on a personal level as well. This is where you the reader become so important.
If you have a story pertaining to funeral vehicles, we encourage you to share it with us. We want to hear from you!
My Hearse Encounter
I had my own encounter with a hearse while growing up in a small Kansas town in the early nineteen-seventies. With too much time on our hands, my friends and I would often spend idle moments drinking beer into the small hours of the morning. On many occasions, we would end our nights in the apartment of a friend who lived above the funeral home where he worked. On one such evening a hearse saved us from the wrath of local police, ever vigilant of slightly inebriated youth traveling home.
Realizing we fit the description of slightly inebriated youth, the more thoughtful one in our group discovered a unique way to slip home undetected. In those trusting times of days gone by, drivers would often leave their keys in the car, hearses being no exception. In a moment of sheer brilliance, my friend realized that driving home in a hearse would be the perfect police foil. His instincts proved correct. It was not, however, the perfect foil from panicked funeral home owners resuming their business later that morning. Thankfully, the matter was sorted out quickly and quietly. Ever a mind for wrangling out of tricky situations, my friend went on to be a lawyer.