Double Coin Imaging Awards

Looking at older photos of Waimea Contract Carriers trucks and comparing them with their current counterparts offers a fascinating glimpse of how trucking fleet colour schemes evolve. 
The primary colours from more than 30 years ago remain: Teal green and yolk yellow over a base white….but the green has morphed from a flat finish to metallic, and the yellow now plays a less dominant role. 
And in the past decade, new colours have been added – charcoal/gunmetal, a silver that's almost chrome, a lighter teal, plus black keylines. It's a mixture that sounds like it could have ended up as a real dog's breakfast...yet it works. 
The latest additio... ... 

Longtime Wairarapa transport operator Fred Burling reckons it was quite simple – the process of coming up with Burling Transport's distinctive red, white and yellow livery.
It started out as just red and white – back when he started the company more than 50 years ago: "Oh, they were just the colours I wanted to use – so that was it." 
He'd bought the carrying side of the "Baileys topdressing outfit" in Masterton – taking over "about three" petrol-engined Commers. 
"They were grey, some of them." He had them repainted, with white cab roofs, white guards and front bumpers – and red in between.
When he bought out another Wairara... ... 

Canterbury and Otago drainlaying contractor Grant Wooster's first truck was a classic tradie's unit – a 10-year-old 4x2 Hino Ranger….painted white. With strictly-no-frills black signwriting.
When it came to buying that first truck, "I wasn't too worried about what it looked like really," he says now, with a chuckle.
"It was like, get some work first, you know." 
That was 13 years ago. Since then, the work has come – and with it has come a growing fleet of trucks. There's 11 of 'em now.
Along with the growth of the Dynamic Drainage truck fleet has also come an increasing interest in having them look good – starting about seven years ago... ...