Association „DocStop für Europäer e.V.“
The association " DocStop für Europäer e.V." was founded in order to improve medical care on the road for all bus and truck drivers on trans-European routes.
Planned as a European pilot project, the founders want to make a contribution to road safety and to create a humane workplace for all bus and truck drivers in the transport business.
Executive Board
Joachim Fehrenkötter
The truck driver's job is with certainty one of the most demanding and responsible tasks that one can carry out with comparable training. Just a small inattentiveness can lead to a serious accident, which can have very serious consequences for everyone involved on account of the huge mass of a commercial vehicle. For this reason alone it is important that the driver behind the steering wheel is healthy. However, our experience as a freight forwarder shows that it is very difficult and sometimes impossible for the individual to visit a doctor. Where can you park a complete truck near a doctor's surgery? Does the doctor in a strange town even have time for a further patient and how does a long waiting time affect the complex time schedule of the driver's tour?
This is precisely where DocStop comes in. With the assistance of a bundled volunteer force, the truck driver is given the opportunity to park his truck in a designated place at a truck stop or a haulage company's yard. From there it is only a short distance to the doctor, who will then treat him immediately. Then, if the diagnosis allows, the driver can continue his journey having received good medical care. The very uncomplicated and free structure of the DocStop service helps the truck driver overcome his shyness to make use of this assistance.
We look forward to many more partners, supporters and helping hands for DocStop.
Kind regards,
Joachim Fehrenkötter
Rainer Bernickel
"We can't influence the way the world turns, but we can influence what moves on it." In making this statement, Mahatma Gandhi precisely recognised the global processes on our planet in his own lifetime.
DocStop aims with its content to organise medical care on the road for all professional drivers and at the same time to contribute towards creating a humane workplace. The team from DocStop, together with many competent partners, will direct all of its power and efforts towards offering an occupational group the most targeted and easily implemented medical care possible along their routes of travel.
We ask interested doctors and hospitals for the necessary help and support. If you wish to help, please contact us!
Kind regards
Rainer Bernickel
Sponsors
The team from DocStop, together with many competent partners, will direct all of its power and efforts towards offering an occupational group the most targeted and easily implemented medical care possible along their routes of travel. It is possible to help and support us in many ways. If you wish to support the association "DocStop für Europäer e.V.", please contact us – we look forward to hearing from you!
We ask interested doctors and hospitals for the necessary help and support. If you wish to help, please contact us!
We wish to offer our express thanks to all our supporters, without whose financial and conceptual support such an extensive project could not be implemented.
