Fleet Focus

It’s not uncommon to hear the road transport industry signalling it has a shortage of young talent. And there are various schemes to attract and support new blood.

Here is a young company, with an enthusiastic 28-year-old at the helm and plenty of youth on the crew that has links to one of those industry initiatives.

Taupiri’s David Rogers and the fast-growing Kainui Contracting Ltd he founded in January 2019 is example of young guns who are literally delivering by the truckload.

David has featured on the pages of New Zealand Truck & Driver before, as a finalist in the 2016 RTANZ Young Truck Driver of the Year competition before stepping up to win the contest in 2017... ... 

It’s a big fleet. Highly visible too. And yet….to most truckies it’s probably a bit of a mystery just how many fire trucks are actually in service. 

Obviously, there are enough of them that they’re spread all over the country – providing fire and emergency services to all New Zealanders.

But (thankfully), even given that their role can include cleaning up after crashes on our highways, it’s not as if they’re seen out on the roads constantly – like most large truck fleets.

So….how many? Okay, Fire and Emergency New Zealand national manager – fleet,  Mike Moran, runs out the numbers: Right now there are 1240 fire trucks and specialist response vehicles across... ... 

It has done the groundwork for thousands of homes and commercial buildings around the Hamilton area over the past 14 years.

So it’s entirely appropriate that Vision Complete Earthworks is itself rooted on strong foundations – namely the Piso family.

Pienaar (Willie) Piso is the founder of the operation that currently runs 24 trucks and 20-odd pieces of earthmoving machinery 

His wife Magdel is the matriarch of the family business – working as a project manager as well as looking after the health and wellbeing of the staff and family alike, reckons son Pienaar…known as Piso or Pienaar Junior to distinguish him from his Dad.

He is a co-owner of VCE, along wi... ...