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The German federation of haulers BGL has started a second one class action against the truck constructors
With the two it sets in action collective are demanded compensations for a fleet of truck constituted from 149.000 vehicles
December 18, 2018
The German federation of the haulers Bundesverband Güterkraftverkehr Logistik und Entsorgung (BGL), with the legal assistance of financialright claims the GmbH di Dusseldorf and of the law firm Hausfeld Rechtsanwälte LLP of Berlin, has started a second one class action near a district court of Monk of Bavaria on behalf of beyond 3.800 enterprises that together have a fleet more than 64.000 trucks, legal action that is newly revolt against the main constructors of guilty heavy vehicles considered to have constituted a trust.
The federation has remembered that in 2016 and the 2017 EU commission it has comminato fines record for a total of beyond 3,7 billion euros against the main constructors of trucks - MAN, Daimler-Benz, Volvo/Renault, DAF Iveco and Scania - in order having created, between January 1997 and January 2011, through illegal agreements, a trust in order to agree the selling prices of the trucks and the date of application and transfer to the customers of the ulterior costs deriving from the adaptation of the vehicles to the standards from Euro III to Euro YOU on the emissions.
With the first undertaken collective legal action from BGL at the end of 2017, the total of damages of which the compensation is demanded altogether regards a fleet of 149.000 trucks.
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