trailer world Issue Two 2013

6 Issue Two 2013 Panorama  Once again first place for BPW: for the seventh consecutive year, the international mobility partner has won the award “Best Brands 2013” in the trailer axles catego- ry. Since 1997, the coveted prize has been awarded the best brands in the commercial vehicle sec- tor. In a vote, the readers of the professional magazines of ETM publication house decide who is among the best brands of service providers, component and trailer manufacturers and system sup- pliers. This year, more than 10,000 readers took part. Dr. Bert Brau- ers, Member of the Management Board at BPW, sees the award as both confirmation and obligation: “The readers’ decision for BPW showed us that as an international mobility and system partner, we are on the right road with our sus- tainable and efficient products”, he explains. “The award “Best Brand” is a quality seal which reinforc- es our investment into further developing our running gear systems.” BPW stays the leader  This year, for the first time, BPW attended the Automechanika in Dubai as an exhibitor. With help from the colleagues from Exporient Middle East, the firm presented itself in the German pavillion. The new economic solutions for vehicle systems and telematics applications were shown there under the motto “Let’s go ECO”. The products exhibited included the air suspension bag generation ECO Air COMPACT with a new, light GRP air tank, ECO Air VARIO, the telematics solution TControl and the new VB suspension series ECO Cargo. As exhibitor in Dubai  Fashion, technology, books: more and more people pur- chase goods like these via the internet. This yields high turno- ver for the parcel service branch. The parcel services were able to deliver about one billion consignments to private customers (B2C), according to the current industry study “KEP- Markt und E-Commerce” - more than in the B2B business. The most popular items ordered online are clothing: it was in 18 per cent of all B2C consignments. A further 11 per cent were entertainment elec- tronics, 10 per cent were books. *Source: KEP-Unternehmensberatung MRU Gmbh and Bundesverband des Deutschen Versandhandels (bvH) One billion parcels Pleased with the award: Dr. Bert Brauers (BPW). For the seventh time, BPW receives the trophy “Best Brand”.  For the time be- ing, there will be no unified toll sys- tem for cars and lorries on Europe’s roads: the EU-com- mission has postponed plans for this initiative and in the outgoing legislative period abstains from the respective law draft. The plan was to stop billing the fees via a time limited sticker system but instead as mileage dependant via a satellite system. The Brussels authorities now leave this topic to the next commission and the next traffic commissioner. Topic Toll adjourned

trailer world Issue Two 2013

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