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VCHD Cargo: Fifth year of helping SAR team rescuers

International transport company VCHD Cargo supports the association of volunteer rescuers Czech SAR Team for the fifth year. This year, it contributed to the volunteers of this largest Search & Rescue organization in the Czech Republic for educational aids and a professional defibrillator.

The Czech SAR Team was established as an independent SAR type association in 2019 and three years ago became part of the integrated rescue system of the Czech Republic. The main principle of its work is to search for missing or lost persons, especially in inaccessible forested and mountainous terrain, but also in cities and other built-up areas. Rescuers also help in natural disasters such as floods, forest fires and others. With their own transportation equipment, the organization's volunteers can even get into dense areas such as forest cover. They are trained in first aid and need professional equipment to intervene in complicated natural environment in many places in the country.

„One of our employees is a member of the Czech SAR Team and this was the first contact our company had with this beneficial volunteer organization,“ explains Ing. Petr Kozel, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VCHD Cargo a. s., and adds, „its activities make a lot of sense to us, which is why every year we support the purchase of equipment that rescuers in the field need the most.“

This year, thanks to VCHD Cargo, SAR Team members were able to purchase a LIFEPAK 1000 semi-automatic external defibrillator (AED) from a leading manufacturer in the field of defibrillation technology. It is a sufficiently powerful and adaptable defibrillator with simple operation and advanced features that can help improve resuscitation outcomes and speed the transition of cardiac arrest patients to the next level of care. VCHD Cargo’s support also went into teaching aids for first aid training and situations with people in critical condition in remote terrains. In past years, for example, VCHD Cargo has also contributed to special trailer equipment for transporting the injured from inaccessible areas.

Since the beginning of its operation, the Czech SAR Team has carried out 127 search operations and 28 technical interventions, found 24 persons and 1 humanitarian deployment. This year, at the request of the Police of the Czech Republic and the German police, the rescuers also participated in preventive cross-border checks of forest roads and trails in the Erzgebirge Mountains. The Czech SAR Team can be called upon for cooperation by any major component of the Integrated Rescue System, as well as by relatives or loved ones of the missing person. The departure of the team to the incident is within 60 minutes from the report (unless the team is already with another intervention)

 

About VCHD Cargo:

The family business VCHD Cargo a.s. was founded in 1997 in the Czech Republic and specializes in international export and import road transport. Since 2019, it has been operating in Germany through its subsidiary VCHD Cargo GmbH. The company offers system transport, operating 112 regular freight services to many European countries. The company’s own fleet of more than 240 trucks allows for both FTL (Full Truck Load) and LTL (Less than Truck Load) transport, including ADR shipments. Thanks to a balanced customer portfolio and Europe-wide know-how, the company can transport pallet shipments of small volume in record time. The VCHD Cargo Group employs 440 people in Europe. For more information about VCHD Cargo, visit www.vchd.cz/en.

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Andrea Pitronova
Public Relations
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e-mail: andrea.pitronova@industrion.cz

Author Roman Opet
Categories New-posts, Press center, Social responsibility

VCHD Cargo continues its support of first responders

The Czech transport company VCHD Cargo has extended its support of the Czech SAR Team, a voluntary first responder organisation dedicated to search and rescue of missing or lost persons and assistance during emergency situations. This year, VCHD Cargo’s financial support will be used to purchase a special rescue trailer.

“We started supporting the Czech SAR Team in 2019 at the initiative of one of our employees who devotes his free time to serve as part of the organisation’s rescue team,” says Ing. Petr Kozel, the Chairman of the VCHD Cargo, a.s. Board of Directors. Last year, VCHD Cargo provided funds for the purchase of medical material. This year, the company will contribute towards the purchase of a special rescue trailer designed for transport of rescued individuals from remote locations. “Last year alone, the Czech SAR Team carried out over 60 missions, often in dense wooded areas inaccessible for regular search-and-rescue equipment. This year, we decided, since we are a transport company, to help the first responders acquire equipment that will help them transport injured, exhausted or disoriented people in difficult terrain, Petr Kozel explains.

The Czech SAR Team is an independent search-and-rescue association. Its core mission is to search for missing or lost individuals in all parts of the Czech Republic with the help of all-terrain vehicles and other special devices used by the team’s members. The association works in close partnership with the Integrated Rescue System during natural disasters including floods, forest fires, etc. VCHD Cargo has supported numerous non-profit initiatives for many years and in 2020 decided to provide a total of CZK 50,000 to the Czech SAR Team.

Author klient
Categories New-posts, Social responsibility

We protect our drivers – we protect all of us!

For several weeks, new measures have been in place at VCHD Cargo in connection with the spread of COVID-19. Our drivers are just behind the first line, which is, in terms of the risk of infectious of the disease, undoubtedly formed by paramedics, doctors and defence forces. Every day, our people drive through the whole of Europe and take the risk in the areas affected by the disease. They ensure that stores and e-shops are fully supplied. They are often exposed to contacts with unknown people on the road, during loading and unloading. By protecting them, we are actually protecting all of us. We take measures that minimize the risk of infection and its spread.

We are tirelessly looking for protective equipment – we have purchased hundreds of masks and respirators as well as dozens of plastic respirators with replacement filters, 1.5 thousand disposable latex gloves, 40 litres of disinfectants and 70 litres of antibacterial gels (and it is really not easy to get those). Also a plastic respirator with filters, which we put in all our 156 vehicles in the past is today’s big advantage.

We have purchased ozone generators for each branch, which are now used to efficiently clean and destroy viruses and bacteria for our entire fleet of trucks and company premises. In total, we have invested more than 10.000 EUR in protective means (and we will of course continue doing so).

We also want to thank CESMAD (Czech hauliers association), where we were one of the first to pick up masks and respirators, and last but not least, an employee of Bohemia Plast (who is our neighbour in Kladno), who sewed our drivers dozens of masks.

We have also set up new measures for administrative staff and their protection – we have introduced contactless handover of documents and sent most of our staff to work from home. We believe that all these measures in society and in companies, together with the responsibility of each of us, will contribute to slowing down and stopping the spread of this new coronavirus.

We are also troubled by a number of negative effects on our work. This is particularly a slow, lax approach in some countries, although with the advancing virus, the situation in wearing masks has improved. Yet smoking corners with 10-15 smokers are still very common in Germany. Equally negative is the opposite extreme. Total isolation, which some have explained by locking toilets, showers, canteens. This is very bad news for our drivers, who are daily on the road and transporting the goods for the people. Yet our drivers are doing a great job and we are grateful to them.

Author klient
Categories New-posts, Social responsibility

Helping first responders & supporting drivers

VCHD Cargo has supported charitable and grassroots initiatives for many years but this time we found a project that really pulled at our heartstrings. We were approached by one of our drivers who in his spare time participates in the SAR project and helps in search-and-rescue efforts in inaccessible locations. We immediately thought “this is it!” – this is exactly the kind of project we want to support and if one of our colleagues is involved, even better!

The Czech SAR Team is an independent SAR (Search and Rescue) organisation dedicated to searching for lost and missing persons throughout the Czech Republic using all terrain vehicles and other equipment available to the team. The team also assists the Integrated Emergency System during emergency events such as floods, forest fires, etc. Thanks to special equipment, members of the Czech SAR Team are able to transport people in a critical condition (injuries or life-threatening conditions) in inaccessible terrain, thus helping making sure the person gets professional medical treatment as soon as possible. The team also works with trained rescue dogs and is usually able to respond to an emergency within 60 minutes, unless the team is already assisting in another case.

We are proud that we have a chance to support such a unique project, which, moreover, involves our drivers. We hope that will continue to do an amazing job. After all, who else but an experienced driver can find his way in tense situations and in difficult terrain.

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