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New Bodies and Trailers
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 we’re proud to showcase some recent examples of Kiwi craftsmanship every month. If you want a body or trailer included on these pages, send a photo, features, and the manufacturer’s name to trailers@nztrucking.co.nz
More than able in the Tasman
Takaka-based Sollys Freight has commissioned this slick sixaxle B-train curtainside trailer set, built by that icon of Kiwi industry and enterprise in Christchurch, TMC. The 36-pallet unit looks sharp in the green and white livery of its new owner, a well-respected and longstanding family-owned transport brand. With toolboxes on both units and an east-west underchassis dunnage rack, she’s ready for anything.
Features: Hendrickson 19.5 disc-brake axles and ZMD shockless air suspension. TMC
Stainless-steel light panels and toolbox doors, additional marker lights and polished alloy wheels ensure the pride and effort of generations now and in the past is not let down in the final presentation.
Mills-Tui built into the body. Oh, and let’s not forget pride and finish, with polished alloy wheels, polished hydraulic tank caver and Peterson lighting.
Hard, wide, and handsome
There’s not much a Hino 500 Series wide cab doesn’t look good under, and there aren’t many trucks Mills-Tui bodies don’t look great on. So, combine the two, and you have groovy in spades! Built for Delta Contracting in Opotiki, this 500 ‘Widey’ sports a Mills-Tui tip body in Hardox steel and a double swinging tail-door, so coping with the rigours of site work won’t be a problem. A 50mm coupling at the back also increases versatility within the fleet. It’s always the details that make a difference, and life easy, like the neat pull-out and drop-down access ladder
Features: Mills-Tui Hardox steel body, two-way tailgate. Mills-Tui
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KIWI 16/17 KIWI 175
Second, third, and fourth take!
A unit that keeps you coming back for a closer look is the only way to describe this amazing build from the Mills-Tui team for NAP Transport in Masterton. The black chassis, chassis plates, guards and satin-black ‘Battle Truck’ alloy rims are contrasted perfectly with cream pinstriping, light grey stanchions, white mudflaps, stainlesssteel toolbox door, alloy headboard, exhaust cover and air tanks. Beyond the bling is the business, though: an Isuzu CYJ460 8x4 chassis kitted out with Mills-Tui double layover bolsters, alloy headboard, and Bigfoot CTI. Bringing up the rear is a new Mills-Tui F175 low-rider five-axle multi-bolster trailer with sliding centre bolsters. SI-Lodec scales ensure the entire unit remains in spec at the roadside inspection, and Peterson lighting brings the silhouette out from the shadows.
Features: Hendrickson disc-brake axles and suspension, with EBS and TIREMAAX inflation management. Mills-Tui
Features: Hiab 188E6 Hi Duo Crane.
TRT / C&C Engineering
Up high in the high country
Queenstown’s Arrow Transport has given its business another lift with the addition of this wee gem, built for the distribution of building supplies in and around the region. The UD Croner PK 18.280 4x2 chassis, supplied through CVC in Christchurch, was placed in the care of TRT and C&C Engineering for the crane installation, deck build and commissioning. The second unit the company sourced through the trio – the Hiab 188E-6 Hi Duo Crane – has a maximum outreach of 17.4m with a max lifting capacity of 590kg. “We decided to go with a slightly smaller crane this time,” says Arrow operation manager Roger Banks. “It will allow more flexibility when getting into tricky spots. It still has a good lifting capacity, and it meant we can put it on a smaller vehicle.”
