Keeping up to date on transporting oversize
Jonathan Bhana-Thomson, the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Heavy Haulage Association, gives the details of a new course designed to increase the consistency of...
Category : Heavy Haulage
Reform, road cones and the road ahead
Image: Mack trucks on display at the NZ Heavy Haulage Conference, courtesy of the Gerard Dauldry Collection. Associate Minister of Transport James Meager told delegates...
Keeping the wheels turning benefits the country
Image: HEB Construction recently transported these two HM400-5 dump trucks from Komatsu in East Tamaki to the Taharoa Ironsands site, west of Otorohanga. The oversize...
A life on the road
Sandy Walker started work at the age of 13, and despite his best efforts to retire, he’s still trucking on, using his experience and expertise...
Custom wheel trailer for heavy loads in action
Moving a turn-of-the-century weatherboard, double-storeyed house weighing 132 tonnes was something King House Removals successfully achieved using its 128-wheel special house-moving trailer explains Richard Silcock....
Keeping the oversize wheels moving
While a series of safety-focused videos on oversize loads was the most visible initiative of the past year, the Heavy Haulage Association has also been...
Heavy Haulage conference 2025
Image: Association CEO Jonathan Bhana-Thomson and Rotorua Mayor, Tania Tapsell. The NZ Heavy Haulage Association annual conference held in August at the Novotel Rotorua was...
Talking hauling with Fulton Hogan
Fulton Hogan is one of this country’s most well-known and largest road and infrastructure contractors, with a history that goes back some 90-plus years. Richard...
A river and a rainbow
Image: One of the two units used for the house relocation was a Kenworth W924 hauling a three-axle TRT fully hydraulic house moving trailer. The...
Advocating for heavy haulage and oversize
Image: Transporting essential resources to the State Highway 5 repair sites in cyclone-stricken Napier. Photo by Ben from Hick Bros Heavy Haulage. The celebration of...