Construction, Features
Waterview Connection
The construction sites at both the southern and northern approaches of the proposed Waterview tunnel are humming. At the south site in particular, enough work has been done that a spectator can already imagine the elegant entrance of the long-awaited tunnel, which will shorten travelling times between the airport and the central city by up to 15 minutes when it opens in 2017. Jenny Pretorius visited the site.
Features, Trucks
Cat CT610
There’s a new Cat ready to pounce and it has a sleek, more compact nose and brighter LED eyes. The CT610 is Cat Trucks’ latest offering and Deals on Wheels is first to meet it eye to eye. We talk to New Zealand’s Caterpillar engines legend Murray Kernohan, who recently returned to the Gough Group to head up Gough’s operation of Cat ‘on-highway’ trucks.
Features, Trucks
Don’t ignore the fifth wheel
Despite their crucial role in keeping trucks and trailers operating as safe, harmonious units, fifth wheel couplings are often overlooked in preventative maintenance schedules. Regular inspections help to minimise the odds of failure
Construction, Features
OMC Trench feature
OMC Power Equipment has strengthened its construction focus considerably with the addition of top quality Weber MT brand of plate compactors to its line-up.
Features, Trucks
Profile: Barry Phillips
Having spent a lifetime of hanging around trucks and machinery, I wasn’t going to turn down DOW Editor Randolph’s suggestion of heading out to Drury to talk trucks with the iconic Barry Phillips.
Construction, Features
Forestry: The bushman
Every now and again you come across a unique person quietly working away behind the scenes developing a life for themselves.
Features, Trucks
Celebrity Trucks: Convoy truck
I can remember the exact year when trucking became cool in New Zealand. It was 1976 and the song that did it was called Convoy by CW McCall.
Construction, Features
Hibiscus Contractors
It’s expensive to build a new road or even to renovate an existing one. Road builders must do the best they can with the base layer they have. This means limiting the use of new aggregate by stabilising the soil of a new road bed and recycling existing pavement as much as possible. But with a Bomag MPH122-2 road stabiliser and recycler, it’s all in a day’s work.
Features, Trucks
Business profile: TraXion Distribution Limited
Winches of all shapes and sizes, wireless remote controls and hazard lighting in almost all the colours of the rainbow – TraXion Distribution Limited has it all. Lyndsay Whittle went to check out all the goodies on offer!
Features, Trucks
Business profile: Wholesale Commercial Vehicles
Points of difference are important when making a business stand out from the others. Sometimes these may seem almost unnoticeable to the competition but can have a striking influence on how a business connects with their customers.
Features, Trucks