Giti Tyres Big Test: A Trucking Tetris
Seeing Tom Ryan Cartage driver Saiyaz Khan at work is like watching someone playing a Tetris video game….on a giant scale. Or skilfully taking part in a super-sizeme variant of Jenga maybe.
Because Saiyaz is as much a crane operator as he is a truck driver. Maybe even more so.
You only have to see him here, in Placemakers’ yard in Wiri, as he operates the Palfinger PK65002-SH crane on his Isuzu CYJ530 8x4 tractor unit – loa...
Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand
Reducing speed limits not the answer to poor roads
You don’t have to travel far on our roads to feel like you’re on a dodgem track – having to take evasive action to avoid potholes and uneven road surfaces.
Instead of making the nece...
Fleet Focus
Cowboys don't cry
To the New Zealand trucking industry, Jim Barker was an icon, a legend, pioneer, a visionary…and a larger-than-life character.
To truckie Daniel Mateni he was all of that….and much, m...
Southpac Legends
Dream Makers
With a career that’s (so far) spanned three decades, Aaron Headington has moved from being a hands-on engineer to creating a specialised division of Southpac Trucks that could be best described ...
Recently Registered
A remarkable return
Remarkably, the New Zealand new truck market is returning to normality – with registrations in April falling just 4.5% short of the alltime record for the month.
Following a March performa...
Double Coin Imaging Awards
Big bright green rescue machine
When towing company boss Brooke Bartle decided he needed a new colour scheme for his towtrucks, he had to do it quickly: His next truck was already in the paint shop!It was five years ago...
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