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International’s 9870 R8 Skyroof Eagle has been available now for some time and there are plenty of standout examples working on New Zealand highways.

And with only a handful of 9870s left to be built at the Intertruck Distributors facility at Tauriko (Tauranga), this truck - owned by L D Rural Transport Ltd and contracted to Ranfurly Transport - might just be the best yet.

Owner-driver Lyndon Buchanan is the fourth generation of his family to have an association with the International brand. Lyndon’s great-grandfather, grandfather and father have all spent time behind the wheel of an International during their driving careers.

Lyndon got into the indust... ... 

In the past five years Piopio couple Steven and Donna Pari have established and diversified their Pari Transport operation, fulfilling Steven’s passion for the industry and his interest in providing a locally owned and operated service for their hometown in the King Country.

The couple followed their passion of trucking and were ready for a new challenge in the rural sector after contracting to Progress Transport for more than 10 years.

Steadily the Pari Transport fleet has grown to nine trucks in that time – four bulk tippers, a logger, and four livestock units – with the company recently adding this impressive new Scania S 770 livestock unit as its latest f... ... 

Most Kiwi truck drivers will have driven over - or on - a section of road built using the precast concrete products made by Preco Ltd.

Now Tauranga-based Preco has a truck of its own on the road. And it didn’t need to look very far to decide on its first truck.

Head office for the company is the Tauriko business estate, and not far along the new network of roads is the recently opened Penske dealership.

Preco director Ian Davies says the company has outsourced its transport work for the past 20 years. But winning a contract in Wellington, not far from Preco’s precast plant at Otaki, led Ian and fellow director Brian Griffin to look at other trucking... ... 

A fleet replacement plan at Porter Haulage has recently put new Kenworth T909 twins on the road – one working in the North Island and other South Island-based.

“Our [Kenworth] 904s were the flagships for us quite a few years ago and we have just completed a bit of a fleet renewal plan in the last year replacing some of the older trucks,” says Jason Pilling, Porter Haulage Manager.

“These ones will be our new flagship units. They will do a huge variety of work moving all the big machines around for us. One is based in Hamilton and the other in Christchurch, but they will also do some inter-island work.”

The T909 drivers are David Foote and Jake Taylor.