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An evolutionary livery

An evolutionary livery

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Looking at older photos of Waimea Contract Carriers trucks and comparing them with their current counterparts offers a fascinating glimpse of how trucking fleet colour schemes evolve. 

The primary colours from more than 30 years ago remain: Teal green and yolk yellow over a base white….but the green has morphed from a flat finish to metallic, and the yellow now plays a less dominant role. 

And in the past decade, new colours have been added – charcoal/gunmetal, a silver that's almost chrome, a lighter teal, plus black keylines. It's a mixture that sounds like it could have ended up as a real dog's breakfast...yet it works. 

The latest additions to the 60-strong Waimea lineup present an assured – and deceptively simple – face to the world, making the Nelson-area logging operation a solid finalist in the PPG Transport Imaging Awards.

That the same colours work well in a totally different design is evidenced by the three units of the subsidiary Waimea Heavy Haulage, incorporated around seven years ago to shift forestry equipment, but since then broadening its scope. 


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