Teletrac Navman Fleet Focus

Elle the Golden Lab has seen nearly every change that has occurred at Glenn and Kerri Wylie’s Gore Freight & Storage. The 14-year-old moves around about a bit slower these days, but still keeps her nose in all of the business and happenings at the busy Southland operation.

“She’s getting on, but she’s seen all the changes we’ve ever made here,” says Glenn.

Gore Freight & Storage had just been established in September 2009 when Elle arrived as an energetic pup. A lot has changed in nearly 15 years with new buildings and a larger yard, plus new trucks and more staff as GFS has carved a foothold in the Southern transport scene based on its local general freight ... ... 

On the face of it, it’s just another truckload of building materials being delivered to just another new house….yep, in just another new Auckland residential subdivision.

But what’s happening here at this two-storey future house (that’s so far just a weatherproof shell) – set in the midst of hundreds of others springing up on a steep, north-facing hillside in Massey, West Auckland – is actually pretty damn different. Maybe even unique.

On the one hand, even on a frustratingly changeable Auckland spring day – raining one minute, sunny the next – this is just one of the 60 to 90 GIB board building site deliveries scheduled for the day (as usual) by Onehunga-bas... ... 

There are no hard and fast rules, but typically a transport company that has been in business for just over 18 months won’t have the back story suitable for a New Zealand Truck & Driver Fleet Focus.

But Tauranga-based Nupin Transport, established in October 2021, isn’t really a new kid on the block. This is the story of a well-known brand name returning to the transport industry and a trucking background for owners Glen and Barry Raymond that began during their childhood.

The brothers grew up at the time when Keith Nicholson and their late father Colin Raymond owned Nupin Distributors. The company was well-known in the 1980s and early 1990s for its predominan... ...