Heavy Haulage

Luxury load: transporting a high-spec sleeper train Heavy Haulage

Luxury load: transporting a high-spec sleeper train

The Great South Pacific Express was recently transported from Australia to Peru where, after a spruce up, it will begin service as the Andean Explorer, a luxurious tourist train. By MARY SEARLE BELL. ONE OF GLOBAL TRANSPORT’S recent projects involved taking a high-spec sleeper train from Brisbane, Australia to Matarani on the southern...
Greg Sheehan<br /> Top flight pilot Heavy Haulage

Greg Sheehan
Top flight pilot

Greg Sheehan has been a stalwart of the heavy haulage industry for years. At this year’s HHA conference he received the Gus Breen Memorial Award, acknowledging his dedication, time and efforts in serving the industry. BY MARY SEARLE BELL. THE HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION doesn’t give the Gus Breen Memorial Award away lightly. The...
Heavy Haulage: In praise of industry members Heavy Haulage

Heavy Haulage: In praise of industry members

by JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION I AM IN CONSTANT awe of those industry members who dedicate their time and effort towards benefiting not only their own business, but the wider industry sector of which they are a part (and often in direct competition with those they help). When this is done is...
Scania joins the world’s first cross-border truck convoys Heavy Haulage

Scania joins the world’s first cross-border truck convoys

On 29 March, three extra-long trucks will embark from Scania in Södertälje, Sweden, to drive in a close convoy to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The initiative is being driven by the Netherlands, which currently holds the EU Presidency, and aims to fast-track the development of truck convoys. These convoys have the potential for...
NZ Heavy Haulage Association awards Heavy Haulage

NZ Heavy Haulage Association awards

Each year at the NZ Heavy Haulage Association awards the chairman takes the opportunity to recognise individuals or companies that have contributed to the running and the work of the association. This first of this year’s chairman’s awards went to Grant Laing, Craig Laing and Malcolm Grant from Laing Properties, a house relocation...
Sorting haulage rules: Jonathan Bhana-Thompson comments Heavy Haulage

Sorting haulage rules: Jonathan Bhana-Thompson comments

JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION THE POSITION OF an industry association can be a difficult one. First and foremost you are representing the collective needs of your industry sector with various national and local government authorities, as well – as in our case – the owners of various...
Heavy hauling through Northland Heavy Haulage

Heavy hauling through Northland

It was one of the biggest loads that Northland’s winding roads could handle, yet Tranzcarr made moving Top Energy’s new transformer to site look easy. By Mary Bell and published in the April issue of Contractor. Moving big and heavy objects is what Tranzcarr Heavy Haulage does day in and day out. Some jobs are straightforward,...
Consideration of oversize load movers Heavy Haulage

Consideration of oversize load movers

  JONATHAN BHANA-THOMSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, NZ HEAVY HAULAGE ASSOCIATION THE ROAD CONSTRUCTION season is well underway and this time of the year this Association receives frequent reports from both transport operators and road project managers about the difficulty that they frequently have with trucks – and those with oversize...
Keeping NZHHA wheels turning Heavy Haulage

Keeping NZHHA wheels turning

Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, Chief Executive, NZHHA Getting the balance between regulation while allowing for innovation and efficient service to clients is the avenue that the NZ Heavy Haulage Association seeks to provide for industry members. EXAMPLES LAST YEAR where the NZHHA sought to achieve greater definition of a balance between...
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