Truck drivers must be prioritised in vaccination rollout

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Truck drivers must be prioritised in vaccination rollout

The freight industry and the New Zealand economy in general require a plan for how we are going to open up and recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

Other countries are moving ahead with C...


Fleet Focus

Old Bones...New Blood

Southland’s Herberts Transport has only been around for 28 years – and in its present form way less than that: Just three years, in fact.

And yet the foundations of the Edendale-based truc...


Southpac Legends

A lifetime in livestock - Don Wilson - On Road Transport

What with increased compliance demands, driver shortages and angry bulls, the livestock industry is hard enough at the best of times, however, not only does ORT’s director Don Wilson run a succe...


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A positive sign?

Hard on the heels of the trans-Tasman travel bubble being confirmed by the Government, came positive signs in New Zealand’s new truck and trailer markets.

Maybe, just maybe, the industry i...


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Beyond the Rainbow
Unsurprisingly, Rainbow Park Nurseries’trucks used to feature rainbows in their colour scheme – as a key part of the 45-year-old Ramarama-based company’s logos.The mainly white trucks wer...

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