FAIA's CRV Is on a Roll

“Awesome, baby!” If he were Dick Vitale, that’s how Paul Peeples, FAIA’s vice president of information and technology, might describe the association’s new Catastrophe Relief Vehicle (CRV). But being a vice president and all (and a techie to boot) Peeples is a bit more restrained. “Pretty nifty,” he concedes, when describing the $150,000 traveling behemoth.

Forty feet long, outfitted with bold graphics and pulling a matching trailer, the state-of-the-art CRV makes a striking visual statement. Deliberately so. When not being utilized as an insurance command center during catastrophes, the vehicle serves as an educational and public relations tool to promote the Trusted Choice brand and to attract people to the industry.