You’re not seeing double, and we haven’t made a mistake and repeated one of last month’s inductees. We took some editorial licence and shunted a Bridgestone Million Mile Club entrant up the queue, based on a comment made by Trevor Masters in the March podcast (Episode 7) feature interview.

“The best Kenworth I ever bought” is how he described fleet No.19, a 2008 8×4 K104B purchased after a spec phone call from Kenworth salesman at the time, Ken Ireton. The original customer had cancelled the truck, and Ken told Trev he’d have to be quick. Not traditionally a Caterpillar man, in the interview, Trev laughed as he said, “I am now.”

When the Masters family sold their log haulage business to the Sargison family in 2013, No.19 hadn’t Some still say the model that bore the last incarnation of the traditional Kenworth K-model grille was the coolest. That truck was, of course, the K108, and here is a fine example of the breed in the hands of Andy Vuleta’s, Vuleta Haulage, also located in Christchurch. Under the high-wide-andhandsome cab is a Cummins ISX 15-litre motor producing 373kW (500hp), and behind that sits a 15-speed Eaton Roadranger manual shifter – a 15, how cool is that? put a foot wrong, continuing on undeterred in the years since to where she is today at a little over 1,600,000km.

Like fleet No.7 last month, this grand old girl has earned her accolades pulling logs off the unforgiving Coromandel Peninsula. Packing a Caterpillar C15 motor set at 373kW (500hp), an 18-speed Eaton Roadranger manual gearbox, and 46-160 Meritor threads on Kenworth Airglide 460 8-bag air suspension, she motors along happily in the hands of local trucking icon Neville ‘Yogi’ Chambers.