News: May 2009

Scania has agreed with the unions concerned on a four-day week for all employees in its Swedish operations starting in June.

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The map&guide professional 2009 software from PTV offers its users a ‘green’ route planner. The software helps transporters, if they wish to, organize ecological transport, including being carbon neutral. The software includes a CO2 emissions calculator for each trip. A simple click of the mouse is enough to calculate the amount of the environmental compensation. For a journey between Berlin and Munich, for example, this amounts to around € 6.60 for a 12 tonne Euro-4 vehicle.

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German trailer manufacturer Kögel is celebrating 75 years of existence. It was on May 1st 1934 that Franz Xaver Kögel bought the workshop from his apprentice master at Neu-Ulm to form his own company. They are now in the top 3 in the sector Europe. Located in Burtenbach, the company has production sites in Chocen in the Czech Republic and Stargard in Poland. In 2008, the 1,350 staff members produced 18,000 vehicles.

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