Giti Tyres Big Test -Missin Nissan returns
When UD Trucks (aka Nissan) dropped an 8x4 option from its New Zealand model lineup, it gave lots of customers no choice but to go elsewhere.
That, even in a small market like ours (or maybe moreso, because every sale counts), can be a persuasive way of influencing head office.
And so it’s apparently been with the missing UD/Nissan twin-steer, as Kiwi UD brand manager John Gerbich freely concedes: When the decision was made to exit the 470-horsepower/350 kilowatts 8x4 from the...
Aeolus Truck & Driver News
ISO buys huge logtruck fleet
International port logistics company ISO Ltd has made a huge move into New Zealand’s log transport industry, with the purchase of Pacific Haulage and Williams & Wilshier’s Gisborne operation.
Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand
Listen to small businesses to get recovery right
Back in October last year, the Road Transport Forum hosted a Zoom seminar with economist Cameron Bagrie.
Anyone who has attended our last few conferences would know that Cameron is one of ...
Teletrac Navman Fleet Focus
The Accidental Towie
When Auckland towtruck business owner Evan Watson died 11 years ago, for wife Pam things could hardly have been worse.
In two harrowing years she’d seen him slowly, inexorably lose his bat...
Southpac Legends
Family Matas - David and Lewis Swap
With a history that dates all the way back to the 1930s, Matamata-based contractors J Swap’s family business is almost synonymous with the area as the Kaimai’s that shadow it - or maybe the Waio...
Recently Registered
COVID Cuts deep
What a difference a year makes! This time 12 months ago, Recently Registered was all about the New Zealand new truck market’s just-completed recordbreaking year.
The new benchmark from 201...
Double Coin Imaging Awards
Large-scale NZ rebrand under way
It amounts to, Aramex New Zealand CEO Scott Jenyns believes, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) rebranding exercises applied to a Kiwi commercial vehicle fleet.By the time it’s compl...
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