About

Matthews Specialty Vehicles has been performing custom conversion work for the past seventeen years.  In the early years, these products were sold and marketed through Thomas Built Buses.  Thomas decided to turn the sales and marketing over to Matthews in 1992.  This is when we formed Matthews Specialty Vehicles.  Thomas made us their exclusive manufacture of specialty vehicles.  They did this because of our fine reputation in the bus industry and top quality craftsmanship in our work.  Since the start of Matthews Specialty Vehicles we have custom built over 400 coaches.  Each coach custom designed and built to meet the customer’s specifications and needs.

Since 1992, Matthews Specialty Vehicles has manufactured premium special-purpose vehicles designed to take companies and institutions on the road. Matthews Specialty Vehicles, Inc. became incorporated in July of 2001. Our goal has always been to help our customers obtain their mobile goals with style in an efficient, durable and reliable vehicle.  We have evolved over the years to include construction on many chassis other than Thomas Built Buses to include such manufacturers as Freightliner, Prevost, Chevrolet, Ford and many more.

This success story and each of our futures has been based on our company philosophy that we are going to be the best bus sales company in the country.  We are going to do this by providing our customers with the best products on the market backed up by the best customer service after the sale.

Each employee becoming an ambassador of good will in his or her daily activities achieves this.  We exude an attitude of confidence, pride in our products, and pride in our ability to best serve our customers and exhibit the "CAN DO" attitude in all our transactions.

We believe we have the right products of the highest quality.  We believe we have the best staff of salesmen, product support technicians and administrative staff in the business.  

Our outstanding reputation has been earned by doing all the right things along the way.  Our customer confidence has to be earned each day.  It is up to all of our people to put their best foot forward everyday and continue to make our companies grow.

Matthews Specialty Vehicles, Inc. also meets all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard requirements as well as National Standards for school buses.

Why choose MSV? First and foremost would be our quality! As the "Furniture Capitol of the World," High Point supplies us with a highly skilled workforce of designers, cabinet builders, upholsterers and more. Many of our workforces also came to us from the yacht-building industry and bring exceptional design skills and a love of the craft. MSV also only uses premium materials, from the chassis right through to the interior wiring. Extra touches, like marine-grade wiring installed in easy-to-access overhead chases, European-style hidden door hinges, flush-mounted cabinet and drawer pulls, and ¾-inch custom hardwood cabinetry, make a Matthews vehicle distinctive in the industry.

What else sets Matthews Specialty Vehicles, Inc. apart from our competition? Cutting edge building technology! Matthews Specialty Vehicles has invested in the growth of our company with the most up-to-date building technology. One major advancement has been the implementation of our CNC Router Machine which keeps a construction database for future modifications and aids in precision cut woodworking, reducing waste, which in turn reduces costs to our customers.

Another area of growth has been in our Design and Engineering Department. The purchase of Cabinet Vision 3-D Design Software enables us to show our customer’s three dimensional, colorized, rendering of their selected interior layouts.

We surpass our competition not only through the design process, but in our manufacturing processes as well. The use of a “state-of-the-art” edge-banding machine enables us to easily and securely fuse color matched edge banding materials to the edges of your woodworking to reduce the look of wear and extend the life of your woodworking. All of our production and manufacturing of our vehicles is done “In-House”. This includes our metal fabrication, custom upholstery, woodworking, and electrical services. This practice allows for tighter controls and better communication which turns out a better product for our customer.

Matthews mobile units can be more than just effective service delivery vehicles. They can serve as roving billboards attracting a great deal of attention for your program or cause. Recognizing that, Matthews Specialty Vehicles offers one of the nation's top vehicle graphics divisions providing design, production and installation of attention-getting graphics for any-size vehicle. We offer everything from door lettering to full vinyl wraps. Our talented staff and equipment can produce machine-cut vinyl builds as well as 3M photo vinyl for lettering, solid surfaces and windows.