A successfull mixture Trucks, mobile cranes and stackers come together at the Weisel company. It’s the mixture that makes it up: with its wide range of equipment the company is well placed.
Nearly two years ago the family-owned Weisel company moved from Mainz to nearby Gau-Algesheim. Anyway nothing special – but this case is different. Andreas Weisel remembers: “The location was perfect, the buildings, a former Bundeswehr depot, as well. In less then three days we managed the complete removal.“ Quite a feat considering, that not only the office equipment but even a whole repair shop and an impressive fleet had to be relocated: 30 stackers, 3 heavy telescopic cranes, 7 trucks, 4 vans and 9 trailer and trailer skips are actually in stock. The unusual mixture leads one to assume that Weisel is operating in a special business – machine transportation and operating removals occupy the central position. A matter of honour so, that their own removal was managed that fast.

The full name of the company is Weisel Gabelstapler + Transporte GmbH, four managing directors are in charge of the operating business: Werner Weisel, who founded the company at the early Seventies in Mainz, his two sons Andreas and Thomas and his daughter Christa. Andreas Weisel is responsible for merchandise planning and is clearly stating: “If we are short, everyone makes everyone’s job. It is not unusual for me and my brother steering a truck or crane to the construction site.” So it is not surprising that every driver even has a driver license for stackers and cranes and operates the vehicle without any problems. “We feature stackers of all kind from electric pallet trucks to fork-lift trucks up to 25 tons capacity”, tells Andreas Weisel. One should mention that the 25 tons truck has a tare weight of 31 tons. To relocating such a vehicle a flat bed trailer with a tractor for semi-trailor is required that is up to the weight and the fifth wheel load of up to 16 tons. Such a truck has recently been purchased: the Volvo FH 12 of the new generation with liftable advance axle, 500 PS turbocompound engine and retarder for heavy goods. Even comfort does not come off badly: the driver enjoys a Globetrotter cab with many accessories like air-conditioning and refrigerator. Three more Volvos are in stock, tow traction units and a 7,5 tons truck FL608. However the small one is powerful, too. As the FL608 is most of the time driving fully loaded and with trailer, it has a long cabin and the most powerful available 210 PS engine.

Currently Weisel switches the whole truck fleet to vehicles with long-distance traffic cabs because the company operates more and more nationwide and abroad. On behalf of Scotch3M the company relocated the complete production centre for high-capacity isolators from Bremen to Milan. For IBM a part of the production plant was relocated from Mainz to Lake Balaton in Hungary. The company’s own relocation was a stroke of luck not only with respect to the new location since it is very close to a couple of regional large companies. As a result many of them and also of their suppliers today are steady clients. The requested services are not only transportation but storage as well. Another advantage of the location: the storage capacity is roughly 6.000 square metres. One warehouse is leased to a machine dealer, about 2.000 square metres are contingent space and the remaining area is dedicated for the own stacker fleet. Some of the boxes contain goods of a completely different nature: Amphoras found in an ancient roman temple in Mainz. When looking for a suitable storage facility the archaeologists discovered the right place at Andreas Weisel. He takes this with a sense of humour: Now we can offer really everything, from antiquity to hightech.