Presentation of the 2016 IRU Awards

The 2016 Honorary IRU Diplomas were presented to nine drivers on 12 June. These awards are presented by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) to recognise the best national and international road drivers, whether passenger or goods transport, who have honoured the profession through service and moral qualities.

The following conditions must be met to receive such an award:

– To have practised the profession of driver to the complete satisfaction of their company non-stop for at least 20 years.

– To have been with their most recent company for at least five years and to have driven at least 1,000,000 kilometres in national or international traffic.

– To not have caused any serious road traffic accidents (with physical injuries) in the last 20 years.

– To not have seriously broken any customs, administrative or traffic regulations in the last five years.

The recipients this year were:

Sarfa: Isidoro Sanchez, Juan Ramón Santos, Pablo Nieto, Rafael Segura, Santiago Pérez and Víctor Esteves

Sarbus: Francisco Javier Mazuque, José Benavides and Jesús Mª García (2014)

Our congratulations to all of them

2017 Catalan Mobility Conference

The Catalan Mobility Conference took place on 7 June and was attended by some 350 people at the Els Costals Auditorium in Castellbisbal to hear the Councillor for Regional Affairs and Sustainability of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Josep Rull, among others. This was the 13th such conference and was organised, as it is every year, by the AMTU to examine the role played by council authorities in mobility and improving it.

Under the title of ‘The Future of Public Transport in Catalonia’, Councillor Rull gave the conference’s opening address, speaking about the need for mobility to respect the environment, among other things. According to Josep Rull, “we have a very important problem with air pollution and climate change” at the moment and public transport forms part of the solution to these two problems.

The councillor’s speech came just after the opening talks, which were led by the AMTU Chairman, Jordi Xena, and the Mayor of Castellbisbal, Joan Playà.

Moventis was represented by a sizeable delegation led by Josep Maria Martí (Managing Director) and Joan Giménez (General Manager).

To tackle the effects of air pollution and reduce them, the AMTU Chairman encouraged everyone attending to take part in a new session of the Catalan Mobility Conference that will also take place in Castellbisbal, in October.