Welcome to Autumn

Welcome to issue 2 of

Hey there little truckers!

I’m Shannon and I’m the editor for Little Truck Down Under. What does an editor do? I pull together all the cool stories and photos so we have a fun, interesting magazine to share with you all. We put out our first issue of Little Trucker at the end of last year, our Summer issue. I hope you enjoyed it! So, what a cracking summer we had! I don’t know about you, but I really enjoyed hitting the road, seeing the sights and splashing around in the ocean as much as possible! One of the best things about road trips is all the cool trucks, buses and cars you get to see along the way. From heavy vehicles transporting goods, trucks stacked with Christmas trees on the back, to really fun vehicles that people have turned into their homes... there has been so much to see! Now autumn is upon us, we are back at work, back at school... and we’ve got so much to show you this issue - we Meet the Fleet at APL Direct, we go on a Talley’s pea run, we’ve got some Australian truck photos, plus a whole lot of fun puzzles and colouring-in pages. We even have a cool board game! Over and out,

Can you ever have too many dogs? Shannon

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Head on over to www.littletruckerdownunder.com for photos, puzzles, fun stories and more! The website is going to be a fun place where we can all come together and share lots of information, and it’s all about trucks! www.littletruckerdownunder.com

trailers loaded with essentials 511kW (685hp) making short work of the three beautiful spring morning en-route to Darwin. It’s up the Stuart Highway north of Katherine on a A Neil Mansell Transport Mack Titan glides

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EDITOR Shannon Williams Ph: 021 182 4803 Email: editor@littletrucker.co.nz

Contributors Craig McCauley Milly McCauley Rochelle Thomas

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CONTENTS

3 Welcome to Autumn 6 On the Road with Milly 12 Little Trucker photo album 16 Top Truck 22 Restoring a classic truck 27 Puzzles & games 40 Mini truckin 46 A day in the life 48 Meet My Fleet, APL

Direct 56 Transport Industry

Jobs - Getting to know a boilermaker 58 Thank you to our sponsors

On the road with our junior reporters

10 Jack 14 Ruby 18 Thomas 36 Dustin 42 Jesse 44 Max

PUBLISHER Dave McCoid Ph: 027 492 5601 Email: editor@nztrucking.co.nz For all advertising enquiries: Matt Smith Ph: 021 510 701 Email: matt@nztrucking.co.nz

Pav Warren Ph: 027 201 4001 Email: pav@nztrucking.co.nz

ART DIRECTOR Ricky Harris

DIGITAL MANAGER/CONTENT Louise Stowell

OFFICE ADMINISTRATION Georgi George

OFFICE Long Haul Publications Ltd 511 Queen Street, Thames 3500 PO Box 35, Thames 3500.

Little Trucker Down Under magazine is published by Long Haul Publishing Ltd. The contents are copyright and may not be reproduced without the consent of the editor. Unsolicited editorial material may be submitted, but should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. While every care is taken, no responsibility is accepted for material submitted. Opinions expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of Little Trucker Down Under or Long Haul Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. This magazine is subject to the New Zealand Press Council. Complaints are to be first directed to: editor@littletrucker.co.nz with “Press Council Complaint” in the subject line. If unsatisfied, the complaint may be referred to the Press Council, PO Box 10 879, The Terrace, Wellington 6143 or by email at info@presscouncil.org.nz Further details and online complaints at www.presscouncil.org.nz

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