PPG Imaging Awards
More than a truck
PPG Imaging Awards - August 2020
Rock and Rubble was established in late 2015 to provide cleanfill removal and tipping services in Auckland – with MD Geor opting to rely primarily on contracting other companies for its cartage needs.
"Initially, trucks were a no-go, given that we were trying to expand – and still are to some degree," he explains.
"But, obviously, the bigger we got, the more they became a necessary evil – as I put it!"
After a relatively low-key involvement – with a little 4x2 Isuzu and a secondhand Scania, their company branding limited to a black and whi... ...
A simple scheme.... from a distance
PPG Imaging Awards - July 2020
Others take a more subtle approach. Seen from a distance they're good-looking...but it takes a closer examination to uncover a depth of visual balance and understated detail that makes them really noteworthy.
This month's finalist in the PPG Transport Imaging Awards, Pukekohe-based Northchill, falls very much into this latter category.
At first glance its livery seems quite simple – a base white with green chassis, guards and lower cab, two sets of ruler-straight dual grey stripes running horizontally at mid-cab level, with similar sets cro... ...
An evolutionary livery
PPG Imaging Awards - June 2020
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... ...
The Burling brand
PPG Imaging Awards - May 2020
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... ...
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