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MEMBER NEWS

FINLAND (38 GARAGES)

NETWORK COVERAGE

The TOP TRUCK network now covers the entire country, already have TOP TRUCK signs on their walls. The chain will
from southern Finland to Lapland. The first meeting of the also be visible at upcoming heavy duty exhibitions as well as
TOP TRUCK Workshop Council was held in Helsinki on in the network’s own events.
9th February 2018. The next meeting will take place in
the autumn. During the first meeting, the Council decided, New campaigns for the workshops will be launched later this
among other things, on publication of the season campaign year. They are designed to attract new potential customers
and discussed the TOP TRUCK 24/7 breakdown service. and serve the existing ones better. These campaigns will be
implemented monthly and their content will vary.
The season campaign was published for the first time in April,
and from now on it will be put out three times a year. The
TOP TRUCK 24/7 breakdown service will be implemented in
cooperation with Falck; it starts operations in the autumn. In
addition, the need for technical training courses for workshops
was surveyed. In future this will ensure that the right kind of
training is offered to those who need it.

At the beginning of the year, Koivunen Oy opened a regional
warehouse in Oulu, Northern Finland, to improve distribution
in the area. Currently, there are about 11,000 items in stock,
and the amount will be increased when necessary.
There are now 38 workshops throughout the country and the
number is likely to rise by the end of the year as interest in the
chain grows. The chain’s visibility is good and efforts are being
made to make it even more prominent. Most of the workshops

FRANCE (204 GARAGES)

GETTING TECHNICAL, TOGETHER

In order to develop knowledge and strengthen skills,
G-TRUCK/TOP TRUCK decided to set up a series of
technical meeting days based on two main topics split
into both semesters: Euro 6/technical spare-parts, and
suspension/steering parts.

From March 20th to April 17th, TECHNI-DAYS dedicated to SERVICES (PAVI, St Priest), CLC (Amiens), COLLET (Rennes)
Euro 6 and technical spare-parts were held. The programme and STEIMA PLSN (Les Sorinières) for hosting events in
included key subjects, such as injection, filtration, or turbo. their offices.
With more than 200 attendees, these meetings were a great
success for the network. Technicians, salesmen, counter Driven by the success of the last edition, G-TRUCK/TOP
salespeople, and workshop managers graded the event 8 out TRUCK is going to repeat the experience from September,
of 10 for organization, topics, and technicity. And, 100% of starring for example FEBI, SCHAEFFLER, FACOM and
them would recommend TECHNI-DAYS to their colleagues. others for suspension/steering parts.

G-TRUCK/TOP TRUCK would like to thank suppliers BOSCH,
MANN FILTER, SHELL, and NRF for their participation, and
offer special thanks to CFM (FEM Marseille), DURAND

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