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With nine hectares of space providing room for about 1500 trucks, the Mystery Creek Events Centre near Hamilton is the venue for New Zealand’s massive Kenworth 100 Years celebration early next year.

Southpac Trucks has announced the centenary event will place on Waitangi Weekend 2024 (Saturday February 3). It marks the global centenary of the Kenworth marque.

The Kenworth-only show will eclipse any single brand truck show ever staged in New Zealand – including the turnout of 301 Kenworths hosted by Southpac Trucks at Mt Maunganui’s Baypark venue in 2014.

“Kenworth owners are known to be passionate about the trucks they run. We want to bring them tog...

Christchurch Airport plans to have a world- first Rosenbauer electric fire and rescue truck in service in 2025.

The airport has signed up to buy the first electric airport fire truck to be built by Austrian manufacturer Rosenbauer International AG.

Head of Aviation Operations Tim Morris says it’s another step towards Christchurch Airport having an entirely hybrid/electric fleet. 

“We are keen to accelerate the airport’s transition to clean energy trucks, and in the next few years, will replace all four trucks as new Rosenbauer models become available, until our whole fleet runs on green energy,” he says.

Testing in Europe indicates the ne...

An early 2025 date has been  announced for the next Bombay Truck Show.

Confirmation of Saturday January 18, 2025, for the biennial event has been possible thanks to the re-commitment of naming rights sponsors Allied Petroleum and Transfleet Trailers and with the agreement of LeaderBrand who own the adjacent property used to the accommodate majority of the show and car parking.

The venue for the third edition of the show will again be the Bombay Rugby Club grounds.

With the success of the January 2023 event the organising committee isn’t planning any big changes to the organisation of the day which raised $83,861 split among three local charities an...

The 2023 Brisbane Truck Show opened its
doors on May 18 just as this issue of New Zealand Truck & Driver magazine went to the printers.

The biennial industry event was back to its traditional levels of participation and international relevance after the 2021 edition was staged in the midst of Covid-19 disruptions.

Following the theme of other international shows, the focus was primarily on electric, and hydrogen fuelled transport – both light-duty and heavy trucks.

Notable debuts included Isuzu’s new battery electric N Series and the next gen Fuso eCanter, both Japanese light-duty electric trucks making their first southern hemisphere appearances.

The Christchurch-based “Cog Swappers” team of Scania New Zealand technicians has finished runner-up at the global final of the Scania Top Team competition held in Sweden.

The Kiwi team comprising Pieter Meijer, Russell Dixon, Dave van Schie, Samuel Hison, Michael Long, Anthony Paddock and Timothy Broome finished second to the team representing Germany. Brazil claimed the third placing.

Since its start in 1989, the Scania Top Team competition has developed from a national training event into a global training programme with focus on practical and theoretical skills. The competition rewards the best of Scania’s 8,000 service technicians and parts experts from 7...