Teletrac Navman Fleet Focus

It may be a fleet of a different kind, but Taylors Contracting’s earthmoving equipment has served the company well over its 50 years in the bush. The company has delivered thousands of kilometres of forestry and rural roads across the Top of the South, even returning and operating in forests that founder, Bob Taylor and his trusty bulldozer first roaded and land-prepped for a second and third rotation… It’s taken some hefty wheels and tracks to achieve that.

To this end, Taylors owns and operates a modern and diverse fleet of earthmoving equipment. Along with six truck and trailer units supported by sub-contractors, the company’s 52 excavators are all Hitachi, ranging in size fr... ... 

It’s small wonder that the orange and yellow trucks of Parks Towing are familiar to Christchurch residents – after all, the company has been around for the thick end of a century. 

But what isn’t obvious is how much Parks has grown in the past couple of decades, and the breadth of the services it now offers. Sure, if your vehicle in involved in a crash or has a breakdown, the company is likely to be on your radar (or you on theirs) but It’s almost easier to say what it doesn’t do.

Heavy vehicle recovery, commercial fleet servicing, vehicle storage and transport, machinery transport, crane truck services, engineering and design services, general vehicle maintenance and... ... 

It’s not uncommon to hear the road transport industry signalling it has a shortage of young talent. And there are various schemes to attract and support new blood.

Here is a young company, with an enthusiastic 28-year-old at the helm and plenty of youth on the crew that has links to one of those industry initiatives.

Taupiri’s David Rogers and the fast-growing Kainui Contracting Ltd he founded in January 2019 is example of young guns who are literally delivering by the truckload.

David has featured on the pages of New Zealand Truck & Driver before, as a finalist in the 2016 RTANZ Young Truck Driver of the Year competition before stepping up to win the contest in 2017... ...