CONTENTS Issue 209 – February 2018 2 News
39 Transport Forum
The latest in the world of transport, including….record truck sales uncover a new challenger to longtime No. 1 Isuzu; Calven Bonney a reluctant New Year honours award recipient; Volvo increases Aussie factory output; Mills-Tui has new owners
22 Goodyear Big Test In Europe, the new Mercedes-Benz Arocs is a construction truck – with a superstrong chassis, high ground clearance and a full hand of all-wheel-drive options. Here in NZ, they’re speccing it more like a tough road truck – with hypoid drive axles instead of hub reduction, a lower chassis height, two-leaf rather than three-leaf front suspension, air suspension at the back, lower-profile tyres, a driver’s airbag as standard and uprated interiors
Latest news from the Road Transport Forum NZ, including…..CEO Ken Shirley believes NZ’s infrastructure development and urban planning has been hijacked by “a small, noisy minority;” expert reckons we’ll be all-electric by 2030
48 Fleet Focus The numbers seem beyond belief. Here’s Bob Yelavich, as usual manning the phones in the office of the family trucking business…which he started fulltime work in 71 years ago!
FEATURES 68 Simon says…..COMPETE Northland transport operator Simon Reid likes a good truck driving contest. He always has. That’s how come he’s won his fair share of ‘em – including the 2017 New Zealand Truck Driving Championship
81 “Bill’s business” broadens….bigtime Southland’s HW Richardson Group, long one of NZ’s biggest, most successful, privately-owned transport operators is diversifying – dramatically, via its Transport World subsidiary
80/ PPG Transport Imaging 81 Awards Recognising NZ’s best-looking truck fleets….including a giant pullout poster of this month’s finalist
91 Out of America North American correspondent Steve Sturgess drives the new, fully automated 12-speed AMT from Eaton. Or, rather, from Eaton Cummins
95 TRT Recently Registered New truck and trailer registrations for November/December and the full 2017 year
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