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Fifty yea rs a truckie
Issue 245
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The Official Magazine of the
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Southpac Trucks Ltd is the premier truck dealership with branches in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, and Christchurch, representing both Kenworth and DAF. We have a variety of career opportunities across our locations.
AUCKLAND PARTS COUNTER SALES
PARTS WAREHOUSE PERSON
This role involves:
This role involves:
• phone and parts counter sales of heavy duty truck parts
• Monday to Friday plus some rostered Saturday work
• Monday to Friday and some rostered Saturday mornings.
• Picking and dispatching customer orders to various locations around NZ
• Experience in heavy duty truck parts preferred.
• Efficiently supply parts to our internal and external customers
• Position comes with staff benefits and incentive scheme after a qualifying period.
TECHNICIAN, NEW TRUCK PREPARATION
This role involves:
• Suits an experienced store person and is also a position from which staff are able to take promotions elsewhere within the business.
TRUCK TECHNICIAN, SERVICE
This role involves: • Preventative maintenance servicing
• Preparing new trucks for hand over to owners
• General Service and repairs of trucks and trailers
• Fitting accessories and customer options
• Monday to Friday and some Saturday mornings
• Suits an experienced technician, the job comes with training to suit the applicant.
• We have our own in-house technical product trainers
• In a dedicated pristine truck preparation workshop.
PALMERSTON NORTH PARTS COUNTER SALES
This role involves: • phone and parts counter sales of heavy duty truck parts • Monday to Friday and some rostered Saturday mornings.
• Experience in heavy duty truck parts preferred. • Position comes with staff benefits and incentive scheme after a qualifying period.
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For any further information about Southpac and/or our career opportunities, please visit our website: https://spt.co.nz/, or email: info@spt.co.nz
CONTENTS Issue 245 – May 2021 4
Aeolus News
The latest in the world of transport, including…. big freight sector companies back “ambitious” zero emissions plan; NZ’s biggest distribution centre opens; mudguard recycling project launched
22 Giti Tyres Big Test
The just-arrived Kenworth T410 SAR is an exercise in blending new technology and a traditional, old-school North American look. Similarly, Phil Collinson – owner of NZ’s first T410 SAR – was looking to achieve seemingly opposite needs: Good looks…AND cold, hard, commonsense business practicality
37 Transport Forum
Latest news from the Road Transport Forum NZ, including…..a call for truck drivers to get priority treatment in the COVID-19 vaccination rollout; RTF’s Te ara ki tua Road to success aims to overcome the industry’s employee shortages; Worksafe increases its focus on safe vehicle operation on work sites
46 Teletrac Navman Fleet Focus
Herbert’s Transport has been around for less than 30 years – and in its present form, only since 2018. On the other hand, the history of this Southland company stretches back more than 100 years
FEATURES
81 Apocalyptic….in a good way
A post-apocalyptic scene near Christchurch – with truck wrecks littering the location – is actually all good. It’s been carefully created to provide heavy vehicle recovery operators and emergency services with the chance to practice their techniques
60 Southpac Trucks Legends
You’d think that running a successful livestock transport operation would easily soak up all your time. But somehow OnRoad Transport owner Don Wilson also manages to work tirelessly for the whole industry…at the National Road Carriers Association
63 Castrol Truck Driver Hero
87 New York, Tokyo, Paris…. Auckland
Three and a half years after the world’s first series-produced electric truck was put to work, it’s New Zealand’s turn to get the FUSO eCanter
Like many truck drivers on the East Coast, William Houkamau has come across many crashes while working. But he goes beyond helping those he encounters by chance – answering many more accident callouts as a volunteer fireman
REGULARS 80/ NZ Transport Imaging Awards 81 Recognising NZ’s best-looking truck fleets….
67 In It For The Long Haul
including a giant pullout poster of this month’s finalist
After 50 years driving log trucks, as Bob Rauhihi says, he’s got enough stories about “the old days” to fill a book. He shares a few special memories…and a few hard-case ones as well!
95 CrediFlex Recently Registered New truck and trailer registrations for March
77 Lots of fishers…and fishes
COLUMNS
The Southpac Trucks Truckers & Loggers Fishing Tournament attracted a record entry…and saw some pretty good results
91 Road Transport Association NZ Operators need to understand Regional Land Transport Plans that are currently under review – and make their feelings known about them
93 National Road Carriers Association
An open letter to Government authorities: Don’t forget about road freight in your planning
MANAGEMENT Publisher
Trevor Woolston 027 492 5600 trevor@trucker.co.nz
Advertising
Trevor Woolston 027 492 5600 trevor@trucker.co.nz Hayden Woolston 027 448 8768 hayden@trucker.co.nz
EDITORIAL Editor
Wayne Munro 021 955 099 waynemunro@xtra.co.nz
Editorial office Phone
PO Box 48 074 AUCKLAND 09 826 0494
Associate Editor
Brian Cowan
CONTRIBUTORS Gerald Shacklock Dave McLeod Olivia Beauchamp Chris Hoult Nigel Hope Ken Holland Ross Henderson Ian McKay The late Dave Carr Collection ART DEPARTMENT Design & Production Luca Bempensante Zarko Mihic EQUIPMENT GUIDE AUCKLAND, NORTHLAND, BOP, WAIKATO, CENTRAL NORTH ISLAND Advertising Trudy Woolston 027 233 0090 trudy@trucker.co.nz AUCKLAND, LOWER NORTH ISLAND, SOUTH ISLAND Advertising Hayden Woolston
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Fabulous...AND Story Brian Cowan Photos Gerald Shacklock
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The Eden Haulage T410 SAR is looking fabulous – and so too is Aoraki/Mount Cook – as one of New Zealand’s newest Kenworths goes by Lake Pukaki
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Old bones... Story Brian Cowan Photos Gerald Shacklock
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One of the company Kenworth K200s taking a load of dairy cows to grazing at Greenvale Station, near Athol, northern Southland
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