new Kiwi bodies & trailers New Zealand Trucking brings you New Kiwi Bodies & Trailers. Bodies and trailers are expected to last twice as long as trucks, and new technology and advanced design features are showing up almost every month.
New Zealand has a rich heritage of body and trailer building and, each month, we’re proud to showcase recent examples of Kiwi craftsmanship. If you want a body or trailer included on these pages, send a photo, as well as its features and manufacturer’s name, to trailers@nztrucking.co.nz
Shepherd’s delight Stickability in road transport doesn’t come any better defined than the colours of Waiuku’s Knight and Dickey Carriers. The latest edition to the stock division is this smart 8x4 Scania R650 with an equally slick Total Transport Engineers LP 7.62m stocktruck deck. The body features stainless-steel deck and extruded alloy coaming rails, alloy effluent tanks, handwash tank and toolbox. A Nationwide Stock Crates flat-sided cattle box is fixed on the deck. The truck tows Features (deck): Stainless-steel deck and extruded alloy an existing Total Transport Engineers LP coaming rails. five-axle trailer with a matching Nationwide Total Transport Engineers LP Stock Crates cattle box.
Highways and byways There’s no doubting this new TMC 6-axle flat-deck 20/40 B-train will see many kilometres of the nation’s main arteries with its new owner STL Linehaul, not to mention cart some pretty interesting loads. Just as well, then, that she sports over-width panels with lights.
axles, STL’s instantly recognisable trailer livery of black coaming rails and red chassis and guards is given extra ‘pop’ via stainless-steel doors on the alloy toolboxes, rear under-run infills, and Alux polished alloy wheels.
Fitted with TMC’s own disc-braked air suspended
TMC
Features: TMC disc-brake axles and air suspension. WABCO braking system.
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