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Helper in emergency: #unimog U 4000 from #unimog Club #gaggenau for auxiliary goods transport to Petrinja
Stuttgart/Gaggenau/Petrinja (Croatia) - When the earth shook in the region around the Croatian town of #petrinja between Christmas 2020 and New Year 2021, a Mercedes-Benz #unimog was quickly positioned. "We have to help", summarizes René Dusseldorp, Managing Director of the #gaggenau company Merex and Mertec as well as Deputy Chairman of the #unimog Club #gaggenau, his first reaction to the incoming disaster reports. It was one of the strongest earthquakes in #croatia since the beginning of earthquake recording. Said, done - a few days later René Dusseldorp and Copilot Greg Köhler made their way with an #unimog U 4000 with trailer. The load compartment was packed with blankets, clothes, baby food, radiators, field beds and medication.
By changing drivers, the approximately 900 kilometer long route to #petrinja could be mastered without major breaks, so that the 14-meter-long #unimog Gespann with a train weight of 11 tons and a top speed of 89km was soon in the middle of collapsed buildings and destroyed roads.
Markus Hrkac, whose family members and friends lived in #petrinja, together with his friend André Dusseldorp, son of René Dusseldorp, had carried out a first aid transport with a Sprinter and Vito in the earthquake region. Their experience reports helped prepare and carry out the help mission under the strict restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic. "Without vaccination and corona test, we had to load the donations within 78 hours in #petrinja and the surrounding villages, distribute them and leave the country," remembers René Dusseldorp. In a 15-hour drive, the team went back to #gaggenau. There, the #unimog auxiliary mission was successfully completed after two strenuous days and 1800 kilometers travelled and lost sleep.
The #unimog Club #gaggenau e.V. is an international association of #unimog and MBtrac friends with currently over 7400 members in 42 countries.
75 years of #unimog - the first #unimog prototype was created in 1946.
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