Category:Featured December 2012
The leading men at MAN
Employees are an organisation’s greatest asset – and that includes the management team that steers it into the desired direction. JACO DE KLERK discovers...
Man of many talents
Dewald Olivier is the senior manager of customer service and marketing planning at Hino. From humble beginnings as a diesel mechanic apprentice in Durban...
Hino’s wheeler and dealer
Jan Lombard, senior manager of the Hino dealer network and business management department, started out as a high school teacher. CLAIRE RENCKEN spoke to...
Driving the Hino sales force
Senior manager of sales at Hino, IJ Greeff, has been in the trucking industry for 34 years. CLAIRE RENCKEN gets to know the man...
Caution, spill ahead!
Mention the term “hazchem”, and many South Africans cringe. Even worse is the fact that road accidents involving so-called hazardous freight are rife in...
Make way for the sirens
Emergency vehicles form possibly the most important segment of the market, frequently meaning the difference between life and death. JACO DE KLERK discovers that...
Taking the “loco” out of local deliveries
Milk to the supermarket, parcels to the front door; the distribution and local delivery sector forms the backbone of any regional economy. JACO DE...
Transporting the nation
The South African Transport Ministry, which has long been dogged by unpopular decisions and leaders supposedly not fit for the job, is now under...
They made you stop… Now they make you go
A simple system that promises to reduce fuel consumption by overcoming turbolag has recently been developed by Knorr-Bremse, usually renowned for their air-braking systems....
Licenced to lead
Kobus van Zyl is no stranger to this industry. As vice-president of commercial vehicles at Mercedes-Benz South Africa, he’s the dynamic leader of a...
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