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Nearly all of the larger Volvo trucks sold in New Zealand are built at the Volvo Group Australia plant at Wacol, Queensland.

This new Williams Salvage Volvo FM 540 8x4 which went to work in the Waikato region at the end of last year has even more Aussie input.

After rolling off the Wacol production line – complete with heavy duty double skin chassis rails, leaf spring trunnion rear suspension and hub reduction gearing – the cab and chassis moved to the Sunshine Coast headquarters of salvage and towing equipment manufacturer Ekebol.

Williams Salvage director Dion Ward-Allen says he spent a couple of years researching the build options for a new heavy... ... 

The Diamantina Drover was written by an Australian folk and political music group called Redgum. It tells the story of a drover, somebody who herds and drives cattle over long distances, and explores the themes of longing, globetrotting, and drifting endlessly.

Certain parts of this could quite easily be compared to the life of a stock truck driver where every day is different, some starting before the sun has risen to get early loads to the works, some are late starts to keep the nightshift works going.

Owner driver, Matthew Thomas, now 31 years of age, was born and bred into a dairy farming family in Levin. He got his first job in the trucking industry w... ... 

A unique and eye-catching colour scheme for a new DAF CF 530 livestock unit is keeping the well-known Soppet’s name and colours on the road.

Twins Rodney and Lindsay Soppet established their Maramarua-based rural transport company in 1975, running it for 47 years before selling to OnRoad Transport in January 2022.

And in November last year the Soppet brothers were back in the yard to be surprised by the handover of the newest truck in the OnRoad fleet to driver Kelvin Soppet, the son of Rodney.

The DAF carries a modern tribute to the familiar Soppet’s green livery and also carries the Soppet’s name on the cab and crates, in addition to ORT branding.<... ... 

A standout pair of new Scanias is providing a `paddock to packhouse’ rolling billboard for the produce of A.S. Wilcox & Sons.

The Pukekohe-based fresh produce company has replaced two of its older Volvos with a pair of new Scania S 660 nine-axle curtain sider units.

The eye-catching green machines are carting a range of Wilcox’s products, which are grown between Te Kao (in the Far North) and Ohakune in the south while providing branding for their popular Perlas brand of new season gourmet potatoes.

Moving to the Scania brand is a change for the A.S. Wilcox & Sons fleet.

“This is the first time we have run the Scania brand,” says transport man... ...