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You don't need to tell Pukekohe trucking company mother and son Bev and Matt Young that old adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket.
Once upon a time, back in the days when Bev's husband Bruce was still alive, they dared to risk testing the truth of the saying….and got burnt.
Pukekohe Carriers, now in its 37th year, was lucky to survive the experience, says Matt: In 1986, Bev and Bruce took a punt – taking up the offer of a contract with a big produce company to cart its produce from Pukekohe to Auckland….
Conditional on the two-truck business putting on six extra trucks, to do the work. For a little company, just a couple of years old, i... ... 

If trucking companies had theme songs, Greymouth-based Trans West Freighters would only need one line from an old David Bowie smash-hit.
You know, the one that goes: "Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes." Yeah, never mind what the rest of the song's about….that line is Trans West, to a T.
I mean, it is an exaggeration to say that for 60-odd years Trans West has been in a state of constant change. But…man alive, this is an operation that, over those six decades, has been rearranged, reshaped…even revived.
Some of the changes are lost in the mists of history – some of it gone with the fading memories of old men…some of it already taken to the graves of o... ... 

Ayna Amima was just 19 when her father convinced her to forget about her fledgling nursing career….
And to instead change tack completely – and join him in starting a trucking company.
Initially, she says, "I thought I wouldn't say yes." It was, after all, an industry she knew absolutely nothing about.
The closest she'd come to anything vaguely related to road transport was back in the Shamim's former homeland, in Fiji – where her Dad, Mohammed, had run a taxi company. And the young Ayna sometimes "used to take calls from customers."
Still, as she reasons now: "I guess he thought I had the personality to communicate with people."
Regardless ... ...