Responsible communication and dealings with our colleagues, customers and business partners has accompanied the development of LKW WALTER from the beginning, and has long since been an integral part of our company culture.

Our commitment to social responsibility rests on 3 pillars:

• Social Responsibility
• Environmental Responsibility
• Sustainable Economic Activity

Our Social Responsibility

• We adhere to our social responsibility and maintain an open dialogue with customers, suppliers, authorities and society. We support humanitarian relief projects as well as the social initiative of our colleagues, in the form of financial benefits, donations in kind as well as personal assignments. In particular, we are involved with the improvement of teaching projects in schools and universities.

• We want our employees to feel happy at work! We maintain a co-operative management style giving our employees a large amount of personal responsibility and we reward their personal commitment through performance related pay. Furthermore, we offer a fascinating international work surrounding, which offers a wide range of perspectives and allows both personal and job-related development. In the business we promote a healthy way of life and strongly support sporting and fitness activities on a wider basis.

• As a large transport organisation, we feel obliged to increase the safety on Europe's roads. Therefore we have developed a driver training programme, as well as a Driver Handbook and developed extensive measures, in order to increase the driver's professional training.
  Furthermore, we are involved in various European working groups, in order to improve the working conditions for truck drivers and to standardise the safety of loads in Europe. In 2004, as a consequence of our efforts, LKW WALTER signed the "European Charter for Road Safety". The aim of this is to halve the amount of road deaths by the year 2010.

  Contents Driver Handbook (PDF 1,2 MB)

  
  

  Contents Driver Training Programme (PDF 0,13 MB)

Our Environmental Responsibility

• LKW WALTER has a long tradition of showing a joint responsibility, which can be seen through the way we conduct business. In the 1950's it was already standard to plan trucks exclusively to make round trips which reduce empty mileage. In 1984 LKW WALTER began to switch from road transport to rail transport, in order to reduce toxic emissions. In the nineties the enviromental activities were further intensified and a broad enviromental management system was developed. Today our extensive environmental activies are rated as being "exemplary in the transport sector" by external auditors.

• Included in our on-site environmental activity:
  - environmentally friendly purchasing of all products and services
  - the reduction of water usage as well as energy efficient warm water treatment
  - waste reduction and prevention
  - the optimisation of energy consumption through building control systems
  - environmental education and motivation of employees to be environmentally friendly
  - considerate usage of resources when travelling
  

• We pay particular attention to external environmental measures:
  - further education of truck drivers in the area of environmentally friendly, defensive driving
  - optimal transport planning to reduce empty mileage
  - cooperation with international organisations to improve environmental standards
  - development of the unaccompanied, combined transport- "rail/road" and "short sea".

  With the shifting from road transport to "rail" and "short sea" carriers, we make a considerable contribution to the reduction of polluting emissions, in particular greenhouse gase carbon dioxide.
  In 2009 LKW WALTER carried out more than 118,500 intermodal transports throughout Europe. With this activity alone the CO2 emmisions were reduced by around 71,100 tonnes.

More information about LKW WALTER's enviromental management system can be found in the latest SSHE-Q Report.

Sustainable Economic Activity

For the management of LKW WALTER, sustainable economic activity means managing the company so that it remains stable and develops successfully in the long term. LKW WALTER is growing with a wider outlook- in line with and under the consideration of economical, ecological and corporately social goals. Our main values were specified in the statement of the management. They are the foundations of our sustainable economic activity.

Statement of the management		(PDF 0,12 MB)
Social responsibility		(PDF 0,13 MB)
Safety policy		(PDF 0,12 MB)
Environmental policy		(PDF 0,14 MB)