ach week CM hears of many charitable acts by people
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in transport, from owner-drivers to large operators and their staff. Here are some from 1992.
Wincanton employees Gerald Box and Mark Schatomski joined a four-man team of drivers on a 2,400-mile mercy mission to rescue refugees from Sarajevo. The plan was funded by Wincanton workers who raised 0,000 in Iwo weeks.
Ryder and Toshiba backed Toshiba employees Paul Hutchings and Steve Mason who drove a 38-tonne Mercedes tractor unit From Plymouth to Croatia hauling food parcels, blankets and clothing collected throughout South Devon.
Exel Logistics, 7esco and Gloucester-based Electrical Contracting Services linked for several projects: completely refitting a school at Osijek in Croatia and installing catering facilities and two reefer units for the Nagyatad refugee camp in Hungary.
Pickfords in Manchester supplied driver Patrick Carter and a vehicle to take aid to Bosnia alter a plea From Chief Inspector Les Week of Walsall Police to support a Walsall Aid Convoy, which included local police and fire brigade members.
BOC Euroshield supplied a vehicle and driver to take aid to a Romanian orphanage after boys at a Somerset School, which had gathered a large quantity of supplies, appealed for help.
Heron Distribution lent a trailer and paid for Fuel for a trip to Romanian orphanages by the London Taxi Drivers' Fund for Underprivileged Children.
Parcels carrier Interlink helped to raise £5,300 for the National Playhus Association in a sponsored bus pull.
United Transport Logistics lent two Mercedes 7.5-tonners to Father Stephen Gilhooley of the Catholic Church of Scotland. to .ta ke. (+id .te-n h i Idren'i• home in Algeria. He was accompanied by UTL drivers James and William Kerr and Gerry Gillespie, UTL general manager Scotland.
Former owner-driver, Alex Rankin, despite being left blinded by a series of heart attacks, drove a Scania Centurion around Ingliston racing track during the Scottish Racing Championship meeting. Accompanied by Jim Kerr, sales manager of truck dealer, Reliable Vehicles, he raised money for several charities.