(August 29 , 1967 2.Good subject for a story — the young camionero crushedby his own lorry,the one thing he loved.
Rail carries 40% of freight in central Europe, against 14% in the current European Union.But the ease of getting into your own car, or loading goods into your own lorry, seduces central Europeans as readily as it does people everywhere.
This is important for DaimlerChrysler, one of the world's biggest lorry-makers, and may have had much to do with Mr Piëch's recent attempts to forge a triple alliance between MAN of Germany, Scania of Sweden and VW's own lorry-making division.We don't do frugalWhat German carmakers have resisted making is a cheap and cheerful car.
Or companies are getting their goods out in their own lorries only to fight pickets turning them away from the factory or depot they are destined for.
They bring down power cables, and knock over fruit carts, and shout at local pedestrians and drivers and their own lorries for not behaving Britishly.
The companies that own lorries have a duty of care not just to other road users but also to the drivers they employ.
Since it cut that cord 30 years ago, it has produced its own lorries and seen off local competition from Japanese joint ventures, partly because it has wholeheartedly adopted Japanese manufacturing techniques at its factories in Pune.
At C J Williams, Telford, we have a large fleet of Jaguar ceremonial vehicles, all provided by Wilcox Limousines, but if needs be we can organise transport for a farmer on a tractor-trailer, or an HGV driver on our own flatbed lorry and a biker on a Harley Davidson hearse.
"Walter Pandiani, who was quite good in Spain, less so in Britain as I recall, owned a lorry which he called 'El Rifle' – his own nickname as a player," writes Ben Watson.
AT THE start of his business career in 1945, Cho Choong Hoon owned one lorry.
Nelu owns a lorry, and that brings in some money, but otherwise he follows his father's lead, stocking his larder with deer and wild boar to go with bottled preserves and dried foods.
