Cargoconnect coverage - Our Managing Director, Shree Mahendra Shah Sharing his career mantra & journey in logistics industry with us.

1. CARGOCONNECT - JANUARY 201990
InterviewedbyUpamanyuBorah
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MAHENDRA SHAH
Managing Director, V-Trans (India) Ltd
What motivated you to be a part of the logistics industry? How has
been your journey so far?
I wanted to pursue law, become a CA, or go abroad.
However, as business is in our DNA, so later I decided
to join the family business and use my educational
knowledge and management skills to grow the business. I
wanted to prove myself and take the business at par with
multinationals by systematising the organisation and
thereby bring much deserved respect to the entire sector.
So far, the journey has been successful and fruitful. It
is work in progress, we have grown from a single truck
business to a multi modal integrated logistics service
provider.
The biggest challenge you have faced in your career?
The biggest and emotionally the toughest decision I took
was changing the corporate identity from Vijay Transport
to V Trans, which was in accordance to the changing
time and company’s growth and diversification. Another
critical and tedious task for me was to consolidate the
structure of the company which was earlier scattered into
eight different legal entities with different accounting
software and reporting formats.
Your success mantra? And, whom you consider your guru in
business?
I have been a firm believer of the following:
• Be Passionate.
• Always strive to do something better than what you did
yesterday.
• Be reliable and ethical in dealings, trust is priceless.
• Get into details.
• I consider Mr Modi as my guru. We share similarities when it
comes to working style. For instance, if Mr Modi is sure that
something is for the larger good of the society, he will execute it.
Apart from work, what are your other interests and hobbies?
I am a fitness freak; my daily schedule will always have
time for yoga, meditation and exercise. I also dedicate
time on creative writing; I am personally involved in our
in-house magazine ‘Vijay Path’ and maintain my literary
works exhaustively.
BE RELIABLE AND ETHICAL IN DEALINGS,
TRUST IS PRICELESS
Further, although I travel a lot for business, I love
traveling for pleasure, both within the county & outside.
Any message you would like to give to those who aspire to work in
this industry!
I would request the industry aspirants to follow and
practise regularly on the values that I have mentioned
and always work on them with a long term vision. CC
CARGOCONNECT - JANUARY 201990