Loaded up and trucking!!

[kiwi pom]

Few more (we were bored)
When it comes to truck makes we get a bit of everything.
Soon to be discontinued Freightliner Argosy.

Nice stock truck

Wouldn't be NZ without a couple of milk tankers

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Wouldn't be NZ without a couple of milk tankers

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Another day in "lockdown" with the rugrats, walked down to the main road with them for some truck spotting.
Roads are very quiet, mostly trucks hauling farming products.
Plenty of spud trucks.
Not the best pictures need a new phone I think.

The odd oldie still doing it

I love those Scania 3 series eight wheelers. Still a nice tidy red and white one with a sleeper cab and insulated body working out of a quarry near here. Alloy wheels and stainless bumper, she still catches the eye.

 

[Deerefarmer]

@kiwi pom have you heard of Pokura Farms? The blue Macks?

 

[kiwi pom]

@kiwi pom have you heard of Pokura Farms? The blue Macks?

I have now

Quite a few farming companies run some sweet gear.

 

[JeepJeep]

Stolen from Volvo's Twitter.

 

[kiwi pom]

Bit more truck spotting today. Its all the boy child's fault.
Honest

Mainfreight subbies run some sweet trucks

Nice tidy drop side Scania

 

[kiwi pom]

A few farm trucks from the other day I forgot about.
Old Volvos don't die. They cart spuds

This old Nissan has carted a lot of spuds in its time.

One from my old bosses fleet.

 

[kiwi pom]

As for 'Loaded up' saw this today.
POWER!!!!
Stealing Greta's childhood one scoop at a time

 

[Andrew]

Bit more truck spotting today. Its all the boy child's fault.
Honest

Mainfreight subbies run some sweet trucks

That Mainfreight ones really nice!

What are the axle / gross weights like there?

 

[sahara]

Another question for you @kiwi pom

What are the grill like things at the base of the trucks windscreen for?

Some great photo's there, for many years one of our now finished local hauliers used to had a very smart fleet of Volvo's like the white one on spud duty.

 

[How much]

As for 'Loaded up' saw this today.
POWER!!!!
Stealing Greta's childhood one scoop at a time

SO Cal does not post much stuff but when he does its always worth watching , that job is north of LA you can can see at around 19 mins the 6 flags theme park right next to the job

 

[melted welly]

Another question for you @kiwi pom

What are the grill like things at the base of the trucks windscreen for?

Some great photo's there, for many years one of our now finished local hauliers used to had a very smart fleet of Volvo's like the white one on spud duty.

stones, lot of gravel tracks.

 

[kiwi pom]

That Mainfreight ones really nice!

What are the axle / gross weights like there?

Its a bit of a minefield to be honest. Generally axle limits are quite low. Eight wheeler trucks and four axle trucks running 44T gross was the norm.
Regulations changed 5 or 6 years ago allowing 50T on most routes but over nine axles, that may have changed again.
You can run higher weights on certain routes with special permits.
The combination you use affects what you pay in Road User Charges, which is the scheme we use for paying Tax on diesel.
Its all way to complicated for me I'm afraid. Load to the weights the boss tells you, keep all the paperwork up to date on the truck and cross your fingers if you get pulled up.

 

[kiwi pom]

Another question for you @kiwi pom

What are the grill like things at the base of the trucks windscreen for?

Some great photo's there, for many years one of our now finished local hauliers used to had a very smart fleet of Volvo's like the white one on spud duty.

As melted welly says they're stone guards to try and protect the windscreen. we have a lot of gravel roads on the south island and even the main roads are mostly just chip seal.
Kiwi road building skills are, um interesting
When I drove milk tankers we were forever changing them. Think we had 5 on our truck one year, one lasted exactly a week

 

[sahara]

Ahh, I see, I did wonder if that's what it was, when I typed the question!

 

[melted welly]

As melted welly says they're stone guards to try and protect the windscreen. we have a lot of gravel roads on the south island and even the main roads are mostly just chip seal.
Kiwi road building skills are, um interesting
When I drove milk tankers we were forever changing them. Think we had 5 on our truck one year, one lasted exactly a week

the corrugations on the gravel tracks are something to behold. I hit some once at speed in an mf4270 with mounted mower. Thought my world was about to end

 

[sahara]

On my travels I didn't manage to get to NZ , but I did get to Canada. We had clay and gravel roads there, pot holes but no corrigations. They must destroy your vehicles? Do you have speed limits for driving on them? Or is it until you shake your teeth out?

 

[yellowbelly]

If I remember correctly it was a Scania but you can't see it for bales

 

[JP1]

 

[glasshouse]

As for 'Loaded up' saw this today.
POWER!!!!
Stealing Greta's childhood one scoop at a time

Is that macraes flat?