May he rest in peace. One of the founders of O.K. Trans Praha, Vladimír Starosta Snr, has passed away.

Vladimír Starosta devoted his whole life to transport and lorries. He started doing business back in 1968 after the “Prague Spring”, although after the Soviet occupation and the start of so-called “normalisation”, he had to discontinue his activities until the next political upheaval.

Shortly after the end of socialism, he founded O.K. Trans Praha in the Czechoslovakia of that time together with Messrs Daniel Musil, Josef Zderadička and Václav Zderadička.

“That was when our major worries started. Work, work and more work, especially as we wanted to do things honestly and in such a way as to enable us to survive the competition,” said Vladimír Starosta Snr, reminiscing on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of O.K. Trans in June 2015 and he remembered: “My wife already ordered the first Liaz lorries in my name in December 1989. Then we got together and started out with five vehicles. I had that entrepreneurial spirit in me. I really enjoyed it. It was a wonderful time. I was already doing business in transport back in 1968.”

The business really got off the ground after 1989: “Things were more open, much more so than at the end of the sixties.”

The funeral of Vladimír Starosta Snr will be held on Thursday, 9 November at 12.15 p.m. in the ceremonial hall of the crematorium in Prague-Motol.