Double Coin Imaging Awards

Mainstream New Zealand is well known for its near-black and yellow colours – with more than 200 trucks on its fleet - but is stepping up to provide a green solution for a key customer.

A bold all-green truck and trailer livery and a sustainability message are the story behind a fleet of five new Scania R 650s that are carrying FMI Building Innovation branding as Mainstream delivers a dedicated nationwide freight service to the building supplies manufacturer.

The 8x4 R 650 and five-axle trailer combinations with trucks and curtain siders in vivid green are certain to turn heads on the highway.

FMI – Fairview Metal industries – is a 53-year-old company with its origins... ... 

Coolpak Coolstores CONCEDES that, when you

see one of its trucks, it’s pretty much “a big white box.”

But, it adds in its website statement, “it’s what’s inside that counts – and we’d love to show you our cool world.’’

It turns out the exterior of those big white Coolpak boxes – visible out on highways all across the South Island – is actually very cool as well.

It’s a look that – by contrasting four shades of blue, plus a dash of silver metallic, against a backdrop of crisp white – achieves a bold graphic that helps the Coolpak fleet stands out.

The livery is now shared across 10 trucks working in the Coolpak logistics fleet based out of Timaru and Rolle... ... 

Payment for consulting on and deciding which one of a few options for the colour scheme on KTL Transport’s new Kenworth K200 was unusual, to say the least.

What it came down to was this: The very first trip for the brand-new vivid red logger, with its eyecatching shaded silver and grey stripes, pinstriping and scrollwork, was a school run – delivering Ollie and Maggie Karangaroa to their Napier school!

How come? Simple, as company co-owner Kent Karangaroa explains: His kids – Maggie, five, and eight-year-old Ollie – were the ones who made the final decision, along with his wife (and business partner) Kirsty.

Dean Evenson from Sign It Up, Napier, who has done the comp... ... 

When towing company boss Brooke Bartle decided he needed a new colour scheme for his towtrucks, he had to do it quickly: His next truck was already in the paint shop!

It was five years ago – and Bartle, managing director of Rotorua Towing Services, Big Rig Rescue and Taupo Towing Company, had just sold his interest in Auckland-based Ace Towing to brother Che.

The Bartle family originally started out with just Rotorua Towing, running blue trucks. However, they’d subsequently bought Ace….which had yellow and white trucks – so the Rotorua Towing trucks (and the Taupo Towing trucks) were switched to the same branding.

On selling out of Ace, Brooke decided to change the R... ...