Provided is a powered ambulance cot for transporting a patient above a surface, comprising a support frame for supporting the patient above the surface, four legs, each leg having a wheel for supporting the cot on the surface, and a pair of actuators, where each actuator interconnects the support frame and a respective pair of the legs, and effects changes in position of the support frame relative to the wheels of each respective pair of the legs. The cot further comprises a motor controller which controls the pair of actuators individually to raise and lower said support frame with respect to the wheels of each respective pair of the legs according to a mode selection from a plurality of mode selections, and a graphical user interface (GUI) controller which, via an electrically connected graphical user interface (GUI), receives an input of the mode selection from among the plurality of mode selections and outputs a matching image on the GUI of the selected mode.
