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When Wayne Kenworthy began driving back in 1984 as part of the family business, Cyril Kenworthy & Sons Ltd, he probably never envisioned driving a truck with a 750-horsepower engine.

Wayne and his wife Janine have since started their own company called Kenworthy Transport Services, starting 15 years ago at Hall’s Refrigerated Transport with a Kenworth T404 doing a Picton swap.

Meanwhile, CoolTranz had been steadily building its business since it was founded back in 2014. They saw a gap in the market for a quality nationwide distribution and transport service for the chilled and frozen sector of the industry.

For CoolTranz, long term regional relation... ... 

As a boy, Pete Dormer got his start in the trucking industry washing machinery and cleaning around the yard at March Construction in Christchurch.

While working at March Construction, Pete spent a lot of time around driver Bob Gerrard (known as Scouse) and his W924 Kenworth Running Bear. Pete would ride shotgun with Bob doing heavy haulage, carting excavators and shingle, along the way learning many life lessons from listening to Bob’s words of wisdom.

After working his way up through the ranks and learning the business, Pete decided to start his own operation in 1994 at the age of 17.

Since starting out on his own Dormer Construction has grown into one... ... 

As the saying goes “every dog has its day” and this 2019 Mack Trident, aptly named “Master of Puppies”, has just been through a three-month makeover that drag queen Ru Paul would be proud of.

Built to handle forestry roads, the Mack hasn’t missed a beat in its three-and-a-half years of tackling southern conditions, clocking up 500,000 k... ... 

There is a wave of black, blue and silver on the move around New Zealand, becoming one of the most recognisable colour schemes on our country’s highways. And among the fleet of modern Booth’s Transport trucks, the S730 Scania Highline of owner driver Blair Boyd’s rates as one of the standouts.

The Booth’s Transport we see today with a fleet of over 300 trucks was started by Graham Booth in the small rural settlement of Opiki in the Horowhenua district. Graham’s first truck was a humble potato farm support truck with yellow and red livery but by the early 1990’s, due to service and reliability issues with outside transport operators, a single truck was deployed to c... ...