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...
Giti Tyres Big Test | A Trucking Tetris
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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...
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Teletrac Navman 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
NZ Truck & Driver Magazine
June 2021 | Read Now
NZ Truck & Driver Magazine
June 2021 | Read Now
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