Since 1924 we have been shaping the transport sector. Let’s celebrate yesterday and shape the future.
The company is on the brink of ruin. With the entry into groupage transport in 1946, a turnaround is just about achieved, before an all too early death takes the pioneer Franz Walter just three years later. On 15th August 1949, the young business graduate Franz Krauter, the husband of Franz Walter's second daughter Alice, takes over and gives the company a new look. Clever investments such as a telex machine herald a new era.
Shortly after Franz Krauter’s take over, LKW WALTER starts regular groupage transport between Vienna and Graz. Necessity becomes a virtue: due to a lack of money, the freight space is chartered and the first relationships with transport partners are established. Another major milestone follows in 1956: the first international transport from Trieste (IT) to Vienna. The picture shows Dkfm. Franz Krauter (left) with authorised signatory Franz Wyka in the port of Trieste on an exploratory tour.
Personal, native-language communication with business partners is one of the keys to LKW WALTER's success.