trailer world Issue One 2013

A fleet full of special vehicles: The Schade Logistic haulage company delivers to building sites all over Germany from Jessen in Saxony-Anhalt.

32 Issue One 2013 Portrait At only 30 years of age, he is in charge of a medium sized company with 120 employees, owns a fleet of 80 trucks: Björn Schade and his mother Gabriele Schade are in charge of Schade Logistic GmbH, a haulage company in Jessen, Ger- many. The company works on building sites and with its special vehicles, it can transport panes of glass and oversized concrete elements to sites: concrete slabs, walls for houses and even structural slabs. Most orders come from within the region, but Schade Logistic also delivers through- out Germany. Schade has already delivered to many major building sites, such as Pots- damer Platz in Berlin. Delivering coal in the “Blitz” The com- pany’s history started about 60 years ago, as a one-man enterprise: Grandfather Helmut Schade drove an Opel Blitz in the post-war period, initially mainly private removals and transporting coal. Later, there were de- liveries of vehicle components for the IFA, the vehicle manufacturing company of the former East Germany. On reunification, the fleet comprised three vehicles, and Helmut Schade also drove a taxi. His son Dieter Schade then took over the firm, and passed it on to his own son Björn about 4 years lat- er. He grew up in the haulage business, and can still clearly remember being allowed to Schade Logistic is a haulage company based in Jessen in Saxony-Anhalt, which delivers to building sites all over Germany using special vehicles. »We are specialised from A to Z«

trailer world Issue One 2013

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