Today a group of Ukrainian National Guard Territorial Directorate Legal Department officers visited “AutoKrAZ”. The military came to Kremenchug from Dnipro to training held in a military unit of our town. Upon their completion, at the initiative of CTD that asked the automobile plant administration to let their personnel to visit the company and the group of military lawyers came to “KrAZ”.
The visitors have been shown the whole manufacturing chain of assembly of Ukrainian vehicles at the main assembly line. They hung on every word, asked questions about equipment set, assembly details, showed interest in cabovers neighboring bonneted vehicles on the assembly line.
The visitors also went to museum of “AutoKrAZ”, after the tour they said they learned many interesting things about Kremenchug Automobile Plant history. After the tour there was a lively conversation on use of up-to-date vehicle sin the frontline. They said that vehicle status is much better as compared to 2014 and 2015. KrAZ heavy-duty truck tractors that do not damage road surface are very useful. Tanks and armored personnel carriers are delivered to home station by combination of KrAZ AWD truck tractor and semi-trailer. According to them, mobile bath and laundry units and mobile baths based on KrAZ chassis improved much living conditions for military in ATO zone.
However, they noted that despite increase in supplies of vehicles to different detachments of the Ministry of Defence and National Guard the number of new vehicle is not sufficient to meet all the needs of the military. But KrAZ lineup has all the military vehicles needed for various tasks.
In the end, the visitors thanked for an informative tour to assembly department and museum and promised to return to see the proving ground, its obstacles and KrAZ truck ability to easily overcome them they heard so much.