On the face of it, it’s just another truckload of building materials being delivered to just another new house….yep, in just another new Auckland residential subdivision.

But what’s happening here at this two-storey future house (that’s so far just a weatherproof shell) – set in the midst of hundreds of others springing up on a steep, north-facing hillside in Massey, West Auckland – is actually pretty damn different. Maybe even unique.

On the one hand, even on a frustratingly changeable Auckland spring day – raining one minute, sunny the next – this is just one of the 60 to 90 GIB board building site deliveries scheduled for the day (as usual) by Onehunga-based transport operator CV Compton.

This one amounts to four pallets of the wallboard, brought to the site by one of CVC’s fleet of 26 trucks dedicated to site deliveries of GIB. Remarkably, it’s a job the family-owned company has been doing for more than four decades.

But here’s the thing: On this delivery, like many of the company’s jobs for Winstone Wallboards – and distinctly UNLIKE many other building material site deliveries – the product is not simply being craned-off onto the front of the site. 

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