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Tito Transport is a small Taranaki family-owned company that started in 2015 with owners Shane Tito and Nicola Bourke purchasing an ex-Fonterra Scania.

After attaching a hydro excavator, the company had contracts with civil contractors to lay cabling for fibre for the next three years.

During this period Shane’s love for the open road never left him. It was something he first enjoyed while travelling in the passenger seat with his father Richard in his 318 horsepower V8 single drive Fuso pulling an A-Train for Kiwi Dairies (which later became Fonterra).

Once he started his own driving career and obtained his Class 5, Shane turned his hand to drive al... ... 

There’s a sharp car transporter travelling the Canterbury roads for the family-owned business of Parks Towing and it’s doing everything that’s asked of it and more.

It’s hard to miss the orange and yellow fleet colours of Parks Towing and when you accompany that with the sharp, aggressive grille of the Hino 700 series FS2848 6x4 cab and chassis it certainly stands out.

Parks General Manager Stuart Gerring says; “We’ve had a long-standing partnership with Hino NZ – it’s a great product. This is one of several trucks that we purchased through salesman Aaron Thompson who sadly passed away recently. Unfortunately, Aaron didn’t get to see the Hino 300 (pictured,... ... 

For just over 70 years a blue and green colour scheme has been the eye-catching signature for the trucks in the Wairarapa-based fleet of Garrity Bros. Transport.

It’s a long time, but only just over half the company’s history, which ticked over 130 years and has progressed from draught horses to Euro 6 HPMV trucks since Samuel Garrity founded the Greytown business in April 1893.

But Ian Garrity says the colour scheme on today’s trucks came about largely by chance. The company colours had been red and black on a `37 Chev the family company ran just after the second World War.

“The story is the company ordered a new Bedford from the agent in Carterton.... ... 

When Wayne Kenworthy began driving back in 1984 as part of the family business, Cyril Kenworthy & Sons Ltd, he probably never envisioned driving a truck with a 750-horsepower engine.

Wayne and his wife Janine have since started their own company called Kenworthy Transport Services, starting 15 years ago at Hall’s Refrigerated Transport with a Kenworth T404 doing a Picton swap.

Meanwhile, CoolTranz had been steadily building its business since it was founded back in 2014. They saw a gap in the market for a quality nationwide distribution and transport service for the chilled and frozen sector of the industry.

For CoolTranz, long term regional relation... ...