Rod Simmonds takes us back just after deregulation of the transport industry to a special event in transport history
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Special feature: Bedford Isuzu rebadging
Before Isuzu became the consistent market leader it is today, it wore a Bedford badge in NZ and Australia
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Special feature: The Ford-Hino badge trick
Hino under a Ford badge? A look back at NZ's local truck manufacturing era and the Carterton plant that made it happen.
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Special feature: Endeans Sawmill
Hidden away in King Country is the ‘abandoned’ Endeans Sawmill that is now on the local tourism trail
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Special feature: Rodney Dow
There are people that talk, and there are people that do. Rodney Dow is one of those that definitely fits into the latter category.
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Special feature: TruckWorld
Deals on Wheels visited a South Waikato attraction that should be on the stop-off list for every heavy metal fan
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Special feature: L&P Trucks
A look back at the iconic L&P Kenworth Aerodyne trucks of the 1980s, the rise of linehaul in deregulated NZ, and the legends of State Highway 1
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Special feature: Camel Hump Trailer
Rod Simmonds has stepped in to tell us what Google can’t – all about the Camel Hump stock crates that were introduced in the 1980s
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Special feature: NZ produce transport history
A nostalgic look at NZ’s produce trucks of the 1980s and how today’s growers have evolved with modern transport
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Special feature: Dargaville Saleyards
Rod Simmonds remembers back on a Dargaville saleyard visit in the early 1990s, recording a photographic time capsule of the adventure
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