Advantage Tyres Fleet Focus

At a mid-November function in Palmerston North the McIntosh family is set to celebrate 75 years in business – a journey that began from a small general engineering shop located on Grey St in the city.

Since 1951 the company – which began as McIntosh Brothers – has evolved in two directions while remaining firmly based in the Manawatu.

Designing and building a small truck-mounted crane in 1961 was the forerunner of McIntosh Cranes, which today specialises in mobile crane services and hiab work.

The engineering side has grown into a manufacturing operation producing the McIntosh Farm Equipment range of bale feeders, tip trailers, silage, and feed wagons –... ... 

But that certainly isn’t the case with Christchurch’s Waireka Group (‘Waireka’ translate as ‘sweet water’). Here’s a medium-sized operation (around a dozen trucks on the fleet) that has been in business just 15 years but offers: container transport via both swing-lifters and skellies, Hiab crane trucks, mini fuel tankers, baby salmon transport, curtainsider metro delivery, warehouse storage and 3PL.

But what on a quick recitation of these facts might look like a rather scattergun approach has been the result of a more organic growth, of taking opportuniti... ... 

But it takes a lot more than some of the toughest trucks to cart logs through Gisborne’s rugged terrain.

Having the right people, robust systems, and carefully planned back-up is critical to keeping all those trucks on the move in the isolated region.

With a 41-year company pedigree born from old school trucking passion and experience – but now with the full backing and resources of a publicly traded logistics giant – there is a solid foundation behind the Qube fleet of silver log trucks.

Australia’s Qube Group (formerly ISO Ltd) purchased the Gisborne-based Pacific Haulage Ltd and Williams & W... ...