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SAFE TOWING
Assistancekåren, Falck Räddningskår and indepndent tow truck drivers representing Storstockholms Bärgningstjänst AB have, along with a number of authorities, etablished a work group whose goal is to increase the safety and working evironment of professional tow truck drivers.
Other members of the group at present include the Swedish Road Association, the Swedish Rescue Agency, the Swedish Work Enviroment Authority, and the Swedish Police. Additions will be made to this group as certain issues come up in the future.
The background as to why this group has been etablished is thoug working enviroment of tow trucker everywhere and the increase in dangerous incidents that where reported in the past few years, including a series of very serious injuries where towing personnel were injured and in some cases even lost their lives.
The work group will look at many items on the agenda and will decide on appropriate measures to be taken, and some of these decisions will take a long time to implement since they may require changes in the law.
However, our goal is to try to get some simpler changes made on a continual basis.
Tow truckers who have experienced accidents that were never reported or who have opinions or specifie suggestions for changes now have the opportunity to bring this out the light.
In order to effectively organise this, if you have something you would like to add,contackt the people below who are responsible for compiling such reports. We would be grateful if you could do this by e-mail since this makes it easier for us to spread information within the group.
As the work continues, the group will report on what decisins and progress have been made by means of a webpage.
If you a driver for:
Assistancekåren contact: Lars-Gunnar Johansson
E-mail lars-gunnar.johansson@assistancekaren.se
Falck contact: Johan Lagerkrantz
E-mail johan.lagerkrantz@falck.com
Other tow truckers contact: Leif Zacco
E-mail leif.zacco@ssbt.se
Tel. 08-549 00 692
VOLVO TRUCK SWEDEN
Volvo Truck Sweden AB has contracted Storstockholms Bärgningstjänst AB ( SSBT ) for Volvo Action Service in the East region. The working area includes Norrtälje, Uppsala, Enköping, down toward Strängnäs, Södertälje, Nynäshamn.
The Action tow truck has 3 different drivers on a rotating schedule, and is supported by the additional 6 heavy-duty tow trucks. Our drivers are routinely trained by Volvo Truck Center in Stockholm.
HAVEY-DUTY TOWING TRAINING IN RUSSIA
As we reported before, training in towing technique was held in St Petersburg for one week in November. Scania / Petroscan in St. Petersburg asked us if we could train their drivers as well as a group from Scania in Moscow, about 10 people in all.was in co.operation with Bro Bärgningsbyggen since they provided Bro Starke as well as one BB1010. The training focused on towing technique, securing cargo, safety on the road and sevice of the vehicle.
UPDATE OF EVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATE
Upgrade of evironmental certificate to ISO 14001:2004 was completed during the fall of 2005.
ISO-CERTIFIED
As the first and only vehicle towing company in Sweden, Storstockholms Bärgningstjänst is certified by Semko-Dekra in Quality and Enviroment, according to ISO 9001 and 14001.
On 3 March, we opened the Uppsala station as a subsidiary of the Greater Stockholm station.
We have started with a heavy duty flat recovery truck and a 3-loader, to be followed in the autumn by a further heavy duty recovery truck. The guys who will run the station are well-known profiles – "Leppe" Lindström and Danne Gustavsson, with nine and sixteen years respectively in the sector.
A new alarm number will be marketed with the start-up in Uppsala: 020-27 24 00 .
This new number will enable us to provide our customers with better and faster service, with shorter and faster run-times, and consequently more competitive prices.
Our operational area is thereby extended considerably now that we cover the whole of Uppsala county, Stockholm county, along with Södertälje och Järna.
VISIT OUR EXHIBITION STAND AT UPPSALA
On Saturday, 10 May transporters from Stockholm/Uppsala will organise an exhibition for professional road traffic. Exhibitors include transporters, the police, the fire brigade, and people employed in the sector. The exhibition will be located at the Vehicle Inspection Centre in Uppsala, and will be open from 10am to 3pm.
Uppsala-Storstockholms Bärgningstjänst will exhibit a Volvo FH12 8x4 heavy duty recovery vehicle, a Scania 94 6x4 heavy duty flat truck, and a Volvo FL615 3-loader.
YOU ARE MOST WELCOME TO JOIN US.
