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Apr 7, 2011

TRUCKERS' STORIES * WORLDWIDE

The Netherlands -Video from YouTube, by VolvoTrucks -1 April 2011: -- Dutch driver Dagmar Klink has been driving trucks for five years, and together with her husband, she runs her own transportation business. She invited Volvo trucks TV on a tour of her Volvo FH, aka the "Pink Lady" and explained why truck driving is not just a man's thing...


* Canada - Super Mario! Robert driver-humanitarian thrives in the clutch

Montreal,QBC,CAN -Today's Trucking -7 April 2011: -- On a narrow mountain pass, Robert Transport driver Mario Fortin comes across an overturned truck blocking his way...  “There’s a truck, a six-wheeler, on its side. It can’t move and I can’t get through,” he says. “But I have the right equipment and materials, and enough logistics skills to help get the truck back on its wheels” ...   In a few hours he’s on his way again...  Believe it or not, this is not an uncommon situation for Mario. Incidents like this -- rare in Canada -- happen all the time in Haiti where Mario is currently volunteering as a humanitarian worker with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...  And every day, Mario faces new supply chain challenges as he crisscrosses the country from trouble spot to trouble spot... It’s a far cry from his career in Quebec, which pays a lot better he admits with a laugh, but doesn’t offer the kind of personal gratification that humanitarian work does...  He was working out of the Boucherville head office in January 2010 when the Haitian earthquake caused its devastation. He was allowed to go right away, no questions asked...  ("You don’t count the hours or stop when you’re tired. And it’s a great, great feeling when you’re done" – Robert driver Mario Fortin)


* USA - Schneider National Driver Marks Four Million Accident-Free Miles

Green Bay,WIS,USA –Truck Net, by dgehman -6 April 2010: -- In 1976, Mark DeSotel first got behind the wheel of a Schneider National truck and embarked on the journey toward his own remarkable achievement. He didn’t know it then, but DeSotel’s first accident-free mile would be followed by 3,999,999 million more. In late 2010, DeSotel, a resident of Fairfax, Iowa, became just the third driver in company history to hit four million consecutive, accident-free miles... Says DeSotel, “When I first hit one million miles, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal. But the closer I got to four million, I started thinking that would really be something! When I learned I hit that number, I felt so good. I told myself, ‘Mission accomplished!’” ...

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