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MAN – Obsessed with After-Sales Exclusive! We Meet the 2020 Dakar Rally Winner ????????? ??????????????? 20.00 1 R ISSUE4 2020 | ON TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS FOCUSONTRANSPORT.CO.ZA MAN – obSESSED WITH AFTER-SALES EXCLUSIVE! We meet the 2020 Dakar Rally winner C ORONAVIRUS RISK IS HERE MANAGEMENT Focus on keeping your In the Covid-19 era truck drivers healthy ????????? Ask us about the loads of hardly used vehicles with loads of potential now available in our Used Trucks Division. Go to www.udtrucks.com/southafrica, to locate your nearest dealer. Call our 24-Hour Roadside Assistance 0800 008 800 (in breakdown situations) Going the Extra Mile B FOCUS ON TRANSPORT ????????? ISSUE 4 2020 contents PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE 2 4 8 14 IF WE FAIL, OUR CAN ONE STOP KEEP YOUR TRUCK FACE TO FACE COUNTRY DIES BORDER POSTS DRIVER HEALTHY Each month, we interview a The coronavirus is here. Amid WORK? Irrespective of how qualified captain of our industry. This all this hysteria, one thing Beitbridge is set to follow drivers are, they cannot month, we chat to Roberto is missing: no one is talking in Chirundu’s footsteps as a continually drive a vehicle if Cortes, CEO of Volkswagen about the importance of our One Stop Border Post. Can they are unhealthy. Caminhões e Ônibus. industry. this work? PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE 16 24 27 30 LOGGING INTO THE TELEMATICS IN CONVERSATION GOLDEN MOMENT! FUTURE SOLUTIONS FOR WITH ANDREY Recently, we travelled The time of autonomous EVERY OPERATOR KARGINOV to the Spanish port city vehicles is nigh. We discover With all the benefits it Russian rally raid driver of Bilbao for the global that the forestry industry offers, on-board telematics Andrey Karginov took top debut of MAN’s new truck is also jumping onto this has become a must-have honours in the 2020 Dakar generation and a seat at bandwagon. for transport operators. Rally in the truck category for the highly sought-after VIP FOCUS investigates. Kamaz. We meet him. event celebrating its arrival. Published monthly by Charmont Media Global EDITORIAL DIRECTOR PUBLISHER COVER Unit 17, Northcliff Office Park, 203 Beyers Naude Charleen Clarke Tina Monteiro MAN Automotive Drive, Northcliff, 2195. Cell: 083 601 0568 Cell: 082 568 3181 P O Box 957, Fontainebleau, 2032, South Africa [email protected] [email protected] is determined to Tel: 011 782 1070 | Fax: 011 782 1073 /0360 womanonwheelsza remain right on top of the after- sales game. See SUB-EDITOR ADVERTISING SALES © Copyright. No articles or page 12 Jeanette Lamont Atish Ramachul photographs may be reproduced, [email protected] Cell: 061 320 2210 in whole or in part, without specific [email protected] written permission from the editorial TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENT director. REGULARS Vic Oliver Diana Gouws Cell: 083 267 8437 Cell: 082 801 8506 2 Steering Column [email protected] [email protected] 4 Driving Africa CONTRIBUTORS CIRCULATION MANAGER Mike Fitzmaurice Bev Rogers CHARMONT 2020 6 Firm Advice MEDIA GLOBAL Peter Lamb Cell: 078 230 5063 8 Vic’s View Yasmine Wilson [email protected] Vaughan Mostert 10 Hopping Off DESIGN AND LAYOUT 30 Global Focus News Nelio da Silva FOLLOW US [email protected] facebook.com/focus_mag 34 Short Hauls twitter @FOCUSmagSA PRINTING instagram @focusontransport 35 Naamsa Numbers Camera Press Find us on LinkedIn FOCUS ON TRANSPORT 1 STEERING COLUMN @womanonwheelsza CHARLEEN CLARKE is editorial director of FOCUS. While she is based in Johannesburg, she spends a considerable amount of time overseas, attending international transport events – largely in her capacity as associate member of the International Truck of the Year Jury. IF WE FAIL, OUR COUNTRY DIES AS I WRITE THIS STORY, THERE It is going to be up to the van and The many vans and trucks that are are 230 051 confirmed truck suppliers to ensure that they on our roads could break down. What CORONAVIrus CASES can deliver. The National Association is happening at workshop level? Are worldwide and 9 388 of Automobile Manufacturers of South technicians going home because deaths. south africa’s infection rate – at 150 – Africa (Naamsa) has said that all local they’re petrified of catching the virus? STILL SEEMS QUITE SMALL original equipment manufacturers Are companies coming up with plans (thank goodness). i have “will continue to work very closely to ensure that trucks and vans can heard lots of hysterical with their supply chain component always be returned to the road? rantings and i’ve manufacturers and partners to monitor What about the people within our encountered lots of panic- developments locally and globally”. industry (and others for that matter) stricken people. amid all It maintains that there are getting to work? The Southern African THIS HYSTERIA, ONE THING IS currently no planned disruptions to Bus Operators Association (Saboa) MISSING: NO ONE IS TALKING any manufacturing lines across the says it is working with the National ABOUT THE IMportancE OF country. When it comes to the truck Department of Transport (DoT) to our industry plants, we hope that this is a situation develop a workable Public Transport ntil now. I’m going that continues. Of course, it will be Plan that is focused on ensuring to talk about how up to the local councils (God help us) the health and safety of the public important and how to ensure that the new vehicles are transport community. U utterly invaluable our registered and declared roadworthy. “In this regard, we have made industry is right now. If we don’t stand together and “deliver the goods”, chaos will ensue! In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has said that all efforts should be geared towards ensuring that the already weak domestic economy “does not grind to a halt”. I concur (although I’m not really seeing any efforts being made, to be honest). However, closer to home, I When new products aren’t available detailed proposals to the DoT to think it’s utterly essential for us to band (and we suspect that this could be the try and mitigate the risk that public together as an industry and – quite case), it will be up to the vehicle hire transport presents in spreading the frankly – do our jobs. companies to ensure that they will be coronavirus,” its spokesman tells us. Let me explain. As thousands of able to meet customer demand. Saboa is confident that the DoT will people start self-isolating or avoiding Truck and van drivers face a massive take the necessary action to ensure all social contact, online shopping will challenge; they cannot work from the safety of all commuters. We hope grow. Those goods will need to be home. Coincidentally, Vic Oliver wrote that the organisation is right. delivered by trucks or vans. So, too, about driver health long before the We don’t know how the scenario will the respirators that we order from coronavirus pandemonium hit town. will play itself out. There’s only goodness-knows-where. The trillions of (You can find his article on page eight one thing that we can say: if we, as hand sanitisers and masks will require of this issue.) What are companies an industry, drop the ball then transport. So, too, will the medical doing to ensure that their van, bus people will die. So, too, will our supplies for those people who are and truck drivers remain healthy and country’s economy. We cannot let that hospitalised or are recovering at home. coronavirus free? happen. F 2 FOCUS ON TRANSPORT STEERING COLUMN ??????????????? THE SCANIA NEW TRUCK GENERATION helping our customers make smart business decisions. At Scania we set benchmarks, taking innovation to a whole new level. With over 100 years of game-changing innovation and craftsmanship built into our DNA, we ensure that our customers reach the height of profitability. While some may argue that they’re pushing the utimate limits to drive customers business forward, we have only one thing to say, there are no limits. We are the leaders in sustainable transport solutions. DRIVING THE SHIFT TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. Scania Southern Africa www.scania.com/za FOCUS ON TRANSPORT 3 DRIVING AFRIca MIKE FITZMAURICE is the CEO of the Federation of East and Southern Africa Road Transport Associations (Fesarta). He has 42 years of experience in the transport and logistics industry with several major companies in South Africa, as well as overseas exposure with some of the leading transport companies in six European countries. He runs Transport Logistics Consultants, which he established in 2004. In May 2015 he became CEO of Fesarta. ONE STOP BORDER POSTS: CAN THEY WORK? BEITBRIDGE IS SET TO FOLLOW • Massive time reductions in duplication of weighing. As a result, IN CHIrunDU’S FOOTSTEPS AS excess of 50 percent at the newly trucks are weighed several times A ONE Stop BORDER Post IF implemented OSBPs; along the corridor; RELEVANT CHANGES ARE NOT • Introduction of the Single Customs • The SADC has not yet introduced IMPLEMENTED Territory system in all EAC countries a single insurance system that is n a recent media - payment of duties at point of origin; acceptable to all member states; release on February and • Multiple and exorbitant cross-border 9, the Minister • A regional Bond being phased in to charges on entry to each SADC I of Home Affairs replace the National Transit Bond member state along the corridor; Aaron Motsoaledi system. • Massive increase in cross-border announced that times in excess of 50 percent, due Beitbridge – the busiest border post Why can’t we get this right in southern to ongoing customs ICT system in southern Africa – would operate Africa? Again, it’s quite simple: downtimes, chaotic procedures as a One Stop Border Post (OSBP) and processes, and lack of traffic from 2024.
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