TOP TRUCK
Story and photos by Gavin Myers
SWEET NEW
CANDY
Knight & Dickey’s fleet of red and yellow trucks is as integral to the North Island trucking scene as the company is to its hometown of Waiuku. The company gets exceptional service life from its trucks, but vehicles aren’t added too often – making this new R650 Scania stock unit stand out even more.
W
alk through Knight & Dickey’s Waiuku yard, and you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store, thanks to the variety of trucks – and applications they’re spec’d for – in the company’s
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extensive fleet. From little two-tonne tippers to truck and trailer bulk units, four and six-wheel curtainsiders, articulated units, bulk spreaders, crane and stock trucks, there’s seemingly a truck for every season and July 2022
every reason. More than 85 of them, in fact: new, old, American, Japanese or Euro. They might come across as modest in the company’s simple red and yellow livery, but – like the best candy you remember as
a kid – modest can also mean quite tasty indeed. While stock transport has long been a part of the company’s services, other areas of the business have taken precedence of late. However, 38-year Knight & Dickey veteran Mike Fisher has recently taken control of the stock division and is set on building it up again. As he has worked on stock for about 34 of those 38 years, there could hardly be a better man for the task. “Guys like Mike, with the experience they have, are such an asset,” says director John Dickey. “Customers like drivers who have good cattle sense, who know how to handle the animals. You can’t teach that with a manual.” The R650 is the first Scania in the Knight & Dickey fleet (with another two bulk units to
