Perfectly fulfilling your personal transport needs was our guiding principle when we founded STP Selvam Transporte more than 10 years ago. Thanks to many years of experience and optimal equipment, we guarantee a smooth move of all your goods. Other services such as removals of any kind, cleaning (with a guarantee of acceptance), evictions, storage are carried out at the highest level, with exactly the offer that is right for you as a customer. Our well-trained and dedicated staff is prepared for every work situation. We drive for you throughout Switzerland and offer you a 24-hour Service, ie we are “day and night” for you.

Our offer also includes a rental of various vehicles with or without a driver. You can visit our vehicle fleet on this homepage. With all our rental vehicles you can travel Europe-wide.

Although our prices are very cheap, we offer impeccable work. Have we piqued your interest ? Then do not hesitate and call us.

Article from the Berner Zeitung of 3 May 2012

“My hobby? Working, working, working »

Selvam Thuraisingam has built a successful transport company out of nothing in eleven years. In the near future he wants to expand to Burgdorf. 

Selvam Thuraisingam seems a little tense at the beginning of the conversation, but the answers come quickly, he has prepared himself for possible questions and arranged answers to them. The native Tamil, who has been living in Lützelflüh for a quarter of a century, speaks German very well, but he wants to be sure that he is properly understood. That is why his daughter’s fiancé, a prospective lawyer, sits at his right hand and translates and specifies it whenever possible necessary. 

Late professional happiness

At age 43, Thuraisingam became self-employed. In eleven years he has built up a flourishing enterprise with the “STP Selvam Transporte GmbH” in Lützelflüh: he offers rental cars, commercial vehicles as well, he carries out removals, cleanings and evictions and temporarily stores homeless furniture. The vehicle fleet now includes 20 vehicles and just as many people work for the 54-year-old. The customer portfolio is broadly diversified. He runs the school bus for the municipality of Hasle, and the Swiss Post trusts in his services as well as various cantonal administrative branches which gave him orders in connection with the move to the newly opened Burgdorf administrative center. What Selvam Thuraisingam, who has long since become Swiss on paper, has built up,

Hard times

About his business, the entrepreneur speaks fluently, gives short and precise answers. Thuraisingam, who always uses the name “Selvam” on the phone, does not say much about his time in Sri Lanka: he has a less than perfect education »Enjoyed, he says, engines had fascinated him since time immemorial and so he had had a living with transport services. Since then he has never again entered his country of birth, “that’s all so long ago,” he says. After a few years in Germany, right on the Swiss border, he moved to Lützelflüh in 1987 because of his future wife. First, he spent ten years working in the local textile finishing company before the company cut jobs for economic reasons: he was standing in the street.

This was followed by four “difficult years”, as Thuraisingam reports: At first he was confronted with unemployment – a stressful situation for the industrious Thuraisingam, who calls “working, working, working” his hobby. Later, he chauffeured clientele in a taxi through Burgdorf day and night, “while I met many people,” he notes. After all, he earned his pay for a while as a truck driver before saying to himself, “Why do not you build something yourself?” He began his career as an entrepreneur by transporting office chairs; his first vehicle was an IVECO pickup truck.

Today he looks back with satisfaction on the achievements. What is important to him: “I would never have succeeded without my family. I am also indebted to my employees, who come from all over the world. “Thuraisingam, who continues to help with relocations himself because it is personally” important “to him, leaves a grounded impression: Does he talk about customer relations? he of “people who help me to trust me”. 

Soon in Burgdorf

The Hautpsitz of Selvam GmbH looks about as expected from a transport company: large road maps hang on the wall, next to pictures of vehicles. This sobriety is lightened by all kinds of Sri Lankan memorabilia, images of various Hindu deities. In the midst of these images and maps, the entrepreneur ponders the future of his business: “My two daughters are still helping out at the workplace, even though they study, medicine one, business management the other. The latter is supposed to inherit me, “says Thuraisingam. However, this is still a distant dream of the future – the planned expansion is even more concrete: “We want to open a branch in Burgdorf in order to be closer to our customers.” However, the head office remains in Lützelflüh, because: “We are well here.”