Cummins Case Studies

Pacific Haulage stands tall in the timber industry Pacific Haulage was established in Gisborne on the North Island’s east coast in 1985 to service a five-year NZ Forest Service contract. Three men – Graham Manson, Mike Treloar and Calvin Paddon who had worked together in the forestry industry in the 1970s as diesel mechanics – joined forces to establish the business with, as Treloar puts it,

Livestock transportation company moves millions of livestock each year Established 73 years ago, Frasers Livestock Transport may well be the oldest substantial livestock trucking business in Australia still under original ownership. Frasers today runs a fleet of 50 prime movers and 150 trailers operating as single, B-double, B-triple and roadtrain configurations. Home base is at Warwick in Q

Maarten Durent is a force to be reckoned with, as is the team he has built at New Zealand’s Southpac Trucks which won the prestigious Kenworth Dealer of the Year Award for the first time in 2017. Southpac sold over 230 Kenworths in 2017 and Durent is quick to reveal that, at the beginning of March, the company already had orders for more than 150 Kenworths for 2018. “In 2017 we actually sold

When Warwick Wilshier bought a second-hand White Road Boss to go logging as an owner-driver in 1982, he wasn’t exactly planning to build the business that today is one of the stand-out names in New Zealand’s timber industry. Williams & Wilshier – Garry Williams is no longer a partner in the Rotorua-based business – operates 68 company log trucks while also having 20 fulltime owner-drivers.

Fifty-four years ago, O’Neil Transport had its humble beginnings in Wallace in country Victoria. While interstate linehaul today accounts for around 50% of the company’s revenue versus 40% for regional transport and 10% for intermodal container transport, the O’Neils – Tony and wife Anne-Maree – still consider themselves very much a country carrier at heart. “We’ll always be a country or reg