Werner (transport company)
| Verkehrsgesellschaft Werner GmbH & Co. KG | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Bensheim |
| Web presence | http://www.vg-werner.de/ |
| Reference year | 2015 |
| owner | since Nov. 1, 2013: Transport Capital AG until Oct. 31, 2013: Abellio Germany  |
| Managing directors | Dominic Harris |
| Transport network | RMV , VRN |
| Employee | 130 |
| Lines | |
| bus | 19th |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 90 |
| statistics | |
| Mileage | 4.3 million kilometers |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | Bensheim, Worms, Wiesloch and Weiterstadt |
Verkehrsgesellschaft Werner GmbH & Co. KG was a transport company based in Bensheim , which operated local public transport in the Rhine-Neckar area and in the Rhine-Main area .
The company was bought by Transport Capital AG on November 1, 2013 .
It was a subsidiary of Abellio GmbH until October 31, 2013 and was created in December 2006 through the takeover of the family company Werner Reisen GmbH & Co.KG , founded by Heinrich Werner in 1927 , which was the largest private bus company in the Bergstraße district up to that time and also has a depot with workshop and parking spaces in Bensheim. The travel agency and booking operations of the previous company were spun off from the bus company to RB Reisen GmbH - a Mannheim company that was taken over by Werner in 1989.
The takeover by Abellio took place because Werner wanted to prepare for the regional competition for bus routes and Abellio wanted to expand his traffic area in Hesse, where Verkehrsgesellschaft Mittelhessen GmbH (VM) was already taken over in 2006 . The company's managing director remained Thomas Werner, who was the third generation to run the company before the takeover.
After the takeover by Abellio, the company had also participated in several tenders in the Rhine-Main and Rhine-Neckar regions and won two line bundles. From December 2007 the line bundle St. Leon-Rot / Sandhausen near Heidelberg advertised by the VRN with lines 719 to 722 and the line bundle advertised by the RMV LDD - Darmstadt / Dieburg with the lines 672, 673, 674, 679, 682 and 684 operated by Werner. In order to be able to operate all the new lines, the company planned to procure numerous buses, some of them brand-new, and to hire new employees.
In November 2007 Werner was also awarded the contract for the two line bundles Ried and line 644 with lines 641 to 645, which have been operated by Werner since June 8, 2008.
Werner was also involved in Nahverkehrs-Service GmbH (NVS), founded in 2000 , an amalgamation of several regional bus companies in southern Hesse and neighboring regions, which had its headquarters at Werner in Bensheim and of which HEAG mobilo GmbH from Darmstadt, the RNV subsidiary Omnibusbetriebe Beth GmbH in Lampertheim and the First Group subsidiary Arthur Merl GmbH & Co. KG in Speyer are involved.
It has been shown time and again in the past that Werner did not manage the bundle of lines with professionalism. Werner made headlines above all with frequent unannounced bus cancellations, unfriendly bus drivers who did not know their location.
On March 11, 2015, the company filed for bankruptcy. The BRN took over the St. Leon-Rot / Sandhausen line bundle on March 30, 2015 .
Web links
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- ↑ a b c d e Werner About us. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Imprint of the Werner homepage. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 26, 2015 ; accessed on March 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Announcement of the Red Renner: VM / WERNER: Sale in Switzerland. Roter Renner, November 2, 2013, accessed June 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release of November 11, 2007: Growth in South Hesse - Subsidiary wins line bundle Ried. (No longer available online.) Abellio Germany, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 5, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release from November 16, 2007: Competition for bus routes in the Ried. (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved May 5, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release of November 4, 2014: Bahn takes over Werner-Linien. Echo online, accessed November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release of October 7, 2014: Massive problems with Bus-Werner. Echo online, accessed November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release from September 23, 2014: Bus-Werner in the sights of the RMV. Echo online, accessed November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release of August 17, 2013: Werner bus company: Complaints persist. Echo online, accessed November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release from August 10, 2013: Again complaints about Bus-Werner. Echo online, accessed November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release from November 16, 2012: Another breakdown at Bus-Werner. Echo online, archived from the original on August 25, 2013 ; accessed on November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Bus-Werner is insolvent. Local transport - Bensheim-based company submits application - operations continue. In: echo-online.de. Echo Newspapers GmbH, March 12, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Press release of March 27, 2015: Thanks to bus drivers. RMV homepage, accessed on March 28, 2015.
