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It’s a long way from the suburban towns of West London to Tokoroa, but there’s a direct connection in the name of the stunning new Sheldrake Haulage Kenworth W900 SAR Legend which entered service in early July.

The Legend has been given the name Uxbridge by Sheldrake Haulage owner Mat Sheldrake.

“When we ordered the truck we could choose which build number we wanted. I saw that 292 was available, and I used to live at 292 Uxbridge Rd in London. 

“The name is a tip of the hat to the time I spent living in London,” says Mat.

Finished in the signature white, blue and silver Sheldrake colours, the SAR Legend has gone to work just a week shor... ... 

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.... ...