TWISTY MOUNTAIN ROADS AND COLD WINTERS ADD CHALLENGES FOR SWISS TRUCKING
September 1st, 2009
BY SHABTAI GOLD
THE CREW over at Top Gear, the BBC petrol-lovers show, recently declared that the Switzerland part of the Alpine mountain range has some of the best roads in the world for driving. But they were in top sports cars, costing a fortune and hardly designed for bringing farmers' produce to the supermarkets.
Speaking to Commercial Motor outside a Swiss air force base in Vaud, in the French speaking west of the country, lorry driver Andre Frossard, 48, laughs at the fancy cars some might think necessary for negotiating the difficult terrain of twisting ...
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