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A family affair Heavy Haulage

A family affair

Alan Titchall was there at the crack of dawn to celebrate the arrival of a couple’s new house in the northern Waikato. IT IS STILL DARK and the lights of the pilot vehicle beam down the access road and light up the back of the house trailer and its load. We are high up in the hills overlooking Miranda and the Thames estuary and the...
Better communication needed over project impact Heavy Haulage

Better communication needed over project impact

Two recent Bridge upgrade projects on State Highway roads have caused angst for the freight industry – particularly the oversize sector. by Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage Assciation One of the bridge projects is on SH1 in the middle of the Desert Road, the Waihohonu Bridge that requires the replacement of...
Logistic overload Heavy Haulage

Logistic overload

Restoring six SH1 bridges damaged in the Kaikoura quake involved a very complex heavy haulage programme to get over 100 concrete beams from the North Island to the South in a few short months. By Mary Searle Bell. IN LATE 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Kaikoura, devastating the landscape. State Highway 1 between Seddon and...
Turning a dream into reality Heavy Haulage

Turning a dream into reality

Mike O’Bryne of Central House Movers has built a reputation for turning a dream into a reality. Richard Silcock looks into what has made Mike and this Bulls-based business so successful. FOR A MAN WHO left school at the age of 15 with a poor understanding of reading and writing, the MD of Central House Movers, Mike O’Byrne, has come...
The relevance of NZTA's 2017-2021 strategy for our industry Heavy Haulage

The relevance of NZTA's 2017-2021 strategy for our industry

By JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION WHAT WOULD NZTA’S ‘People-Centred Services’ look like for our ‘oversize transport industry’? The NZTA Strategy document for 2017–2021 states that there are three major strategic responses to the current and future transport situation. According...
Heavy Haulage Conference 2017 Heavy Haulage

Heavy Haulage Conference 2017

Napier was the venue for this year’s NZHHA annual conference with art deco-themed entertainment 
serving as a backdrop for much lively debate. 
RUTH LE PLA was there. This was the first annual get-together since the long-debated new version of the VDAM (Vehicle Dimensions and Mass) Rule came into effect in February this year.While...
On top of their game Heavy Haulage

On top of their game

Family owned Britton House Movers is a big player when it comes to building relocations, employing over 45 staff and running a fleet of 10 haulage units. RICHARD SILCOCK caught up with Paul Britton in between moves to profile the 60-year-old business, his role and his views for the future. WHEN I CATCH up with Paul Britton he and his...
Oversize on motorways and tolled roads Heavy Haulage

Oversize on motorways and tolled roads

By JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, chief executive, NZ Heavy Haulage Association I WANT TO PUT the case for allowing oversize loads onto the motorways and toll roads around New Zealand. The use of the most well-designed roads, with the best alignments, increased safety features, and the least vulnerable users has restricted use by loads...
Sandy Southcombe: Taranaki’s 
heavy mover Heavy Haulage

Sandy Southcombe: Taranaki’s 
heavy mover

At last year’s Heavy Haulage Conference, industry veteran Sandy Southcombe sat with MARY SEARLE BELL to reflect on his long career as a house mover. SANDY SOUTHCOMBE HAS been moving buildings in Taranaki for very nearly 50 years. His first move, in late 1967, was an office building, which he hauled on a Thames Trader truck and a...
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