The Magpie. A tenacious, stealthy, skilful, opinionated, and witty creature with innate confidence and a keen eye for shiny things. Born not with tolerance for fools, or that which falls short of a Bulldog’s tenacity.

Retro Tests for your pleasure, The Retro Tests sample trucks from the great era that spanned the early 70s through to the early 90s, roughly…there are no hard and fast rules. To so...

With a century under his belt, Eric Wilson can still recall facts, figures, and characters from his time as a transport operator seven decades ago!

It’s often difficult to get a feel of where things are at in the top offices of the world’s leading OEMs – often scattered around far-flung corners of the globe. However, president...

Is there such a thing as too much technology? Will Shiers gets behind the wheel of a mirrorless new Mercedes-Benz Actros. I reckon the word ‘intuitive’ is used far too liberally...

Reliably delivering around half a million litres of diesel every day to outback Queensland requires more than good equipment and good management. In the coalfields in Queensland’s ...

Mixing experience and passion with execution and a decent whack of humility will likely yield an outstanding result. The latest car-carrying creations from Auckland based Carr & Ha...

Spraying bitumen and emulsion is known to be dirty, hot, and hard work … and certainly not usually seen at the glamour end of the trucking industry. Higgins Contractors Ltd has put...

When the Post Office decided its vehicles no longer met their requirements, they were disposed of. Unfortunately the majority ended up in the scrapyard. Some, however, became museu...

There might still be a number of operators in the New Zealand transport scene who predate the Y2K bug, but ones who remember the Beatles’ hits on the wireless are fewer on the grou...