Advantage Tyres Fleet Focus

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.

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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... ... 

Nearly four years ago when discussions about the future ownership structure of D.T. Kings Transport were in full swing – and the idea of splitting the company among the shareholders was first floated – it was clear the log transport division was already operating somewhat as its own entity.

The sole focus on carting logs was a contrast to the wide variety of livestock, sowing, spreading and rural cartage work being done by the rest of a transport operation that was approaching a fleet size of 200 trucks.

So, creating a new log truck operation from the DTK fleet was a relatively straightforward process, while splitting the fleet for the two other new entities – Kings Rural Transpo... ...