Fleet Focus
It seems perfectly understandable that, after 35 years behind the wheel, career truckie Kevin O’Brien last year took the opportunity to get out of a truck…and into the office.
Understandable….particularly since he’d been driving for the same company all that time – and he’d been carting logs into the same sawmill every working day.
Understandable….even more so because, for the past 14 years, he’d been the co-owner of the company. And the Hautapu Haulage fleet had grown to 10 trucks – a big number to be organising every day from behind the wheel of one of them.
So here we are now….and Kev’s in his happy place. Yep, back behind the wheel of one of the company’s Scanias – and loving it.
Because – logical, sensible, understandable though it may have been – the move into the of...
Say that you’d like to leave loving memories behind you when you’re gone from this world….and you’ll likely not find many who’d wish otherwise.
But saying it is one thing. Achieving that high ideal is a rare and special thing.
Well, Marlborough transport operator, the late Ian Higgins, achieved that...and so much more. That’s something that’s very evident in his living legacy – a trucking company like few others.
Renwick Transport is a place where irreverent banter melds seamlessly with obvious and heartfelt respect, where grief for a great man taken before his time lies very close to the surface – yet does little to muffle the peals of laughter that punctuate conversations….
And where the concept of family is not only spoken of but also lived out in all its rambunctious variety and tolerance.<...
When Kohan Wilson added a new truck and trailer unit to his Auckland tipper fleet recently, he revealed it with a series of posts on his TKO Contracting Facebook page…..
Including one that says: "In loving memory of Johnny danger…. #HELLFARKINYEEHAAAW."
It carries a photo of the taildoors on the Mills Tui bins on a new Scania truck and trailer unit, both bearing larger-than-life tributes to one of Kohan's best mates – Kiwi social media sensation Johnny (Danger) Bennett, who died in a motorcycle crash in 2018.
The post attracted 931 Likes, 42 Shares and 32 comments, including the following: "That's brilliant bro what a nice thing to do…..Thats mean as Kohan. Respect…..Now that's tuffff brother….Oooosh now thats cool ……That's
And another post – this one with a night-time shot of one of two new TKO Sca...
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