Advantage Tyres Fleet Focus

Mitch McLachlan followed his father into bricklaying,but he didn’t stay on the tools for very long.

Instead, he changed career direction into the transport industry in 1981 to drive a courier van, stepped up to trucks, and from there has steadily built the family-owned M.E. (McLachlan Efficient) Transport operation based on the north side of Plimmerton.

In 2011 Mitch urgently needed an extra pair of hands while M.E. Transport handled the hectic transport logistics for the Rugby World Cup. Teenage daughter Brittany jumped in the truck with Mitch to travel the country, sparking her own passion for the transport industry.

When the RWC job was complete her thoughts of attending... ... 

An immaculate blue and silver truck fleet – with the Kenworth brand taking the lead role – has become the calling card for Porirua’s Bryce O’Sullivan Contracting (BOSCO).

But `Show & Shine’ worthy trucks are not what Bryce O’Sullivan is the proudest of when he reflects on starting the BOSCO operation as a teenager with a small truck and digger.

Bryce says that earthmoving machinery is his first love and that he’d rather spend a day at the controls of an excavator than behind the wheel of a truck – no matter how nice the truck.

But even then, tracks and tyres rank secondary to the people who have helped to build BOSCO and keep the operation powering along.

“The biggest... ... 

Fern Energy has a crisp new look having engineered probably the largest and most intense fuel tanker fleet replacement programme in New Zealand transport history.

The project was a three-way collaboration for bulk fuel and lubricants company Fern Energy, Scania New Zealand, and tanker body builder Lowes.

It involved the delivery of no less than 79 new tanker bodies in two years, both truck bodies and trailers, to replace the leased vehicles in its fleet and new trucks rolled out of Lowes’ Ferrymead, Christchurch, factory on schedule, every two weeks – bar one, delayed for a couple of days due to a supply issue.

Fern Energy CEO Chris Gourley says Fern was formed from the mer... ...