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David Maund
• While most of the country's transport managers were relaxing over the Easter weekend, one man was packing his bags for what must rate as the most exciting and challenging transport job of the year. David Maund, who joined HTS last June, flew out to Bangladesh on Tuesday to help reorganize the country's transport.
The invitation came through Transport Development Unit, an international transport consultancy firm run by the former NFC marketing man Alistair Tucker who was at one time David's boss.
Setting up new organizations or reorganizing established units presents no problems to David Maund. in the short period this 31year-old Londoner was with HTS he established the company's depots at Beckton and Middlesbrough, controlled the closure of the Oldbury depot and has now completed the reorganization of the Leeds depot.
David also spent two years with BRSL as general manager of Overnight Express during which time he regularly lectured at the BRSL management course at Bromford. But he is a man of wide experience. He spent three year with Proctors Transport in Sheffield and this, he points out, was his first venture into road transport where he started virtually from the ground floor in the highly competitive world . of haulage.
Not that competition ever worried David because his first job in life was with a shipbroker in Lincolnshire where for four years he was involved in organizing export cargoes, and those who have had experience in the competitive field of shipping and forwarding will realize that to be successful • you have to be ready to meet a challenge. David Maund is the kind of man who is prepared. His challenge started on Wednesday morning, 24 hours after his departure on a 16-hour flight. United Nations supplies lying at Dacca have to be moved before the monsoon season starts next month and this is a challenge he will help to meet. To say that he is looking forward to his initial sixmonth tour of duty is to put it too mildly. "I am excited at the prospect and proud to be given the opportunity of working in Bangladesh," he told me.
David may stay away from the UK longer than six months because if he and his new employers hit it off together then he will be given the opportunity of taking his wife, son and daughter out to join him. I.S.