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Keiran Craig Ken Bell caught up with Keiran Craig at Woodlands on a cold Southland morning just after he had taken an early load of ewes to the weekly Lorneville livestock market, winter providing a little more time for such duties. Keiran was about to flush out and clean the Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3258 he drives for Phillips Transport at Woodlands, 17km east of Invercargill. Southland-born Keiran lives in Wyndham and has worked for Phillips Transport for 18 months. Before that, he worked for nearby Herberts Transport, piloting a Kenworth K200. The Arocs is a dedicated truck carrying Valley Crates stock crates with a matching trailer. It can be seen on the southern roads as far north as Christchurch. When asked his preference of red or blue, he replied with a sideways grin: “Blue all day long.”
Jono Murray Jono grew up loving trucks. When asked which truck he loves most, he answered “904s”! Jono’s daughter Amelia won the Little Truckers’ Club logo draw (see page 92), and Rochelle Thomas had arranged to meet them at the yard to give Amelia a prize and get a photo. Jono had been busy cleaning his truck, so Rochelle seized the opportunity to do a quick interview. Jono has been driving trucks for 13 years. He’s been with Foxpine Haulage for the past four years and loves it – not surprising as he gets to drive the 2008 Kenworth T904. He was parked up at the yard in Feilding for the weekend, loaded with pruned logs to take to a Taupo mill early Monday morning. If he could change anything in the transport industry, Jono said it would be the condition of the roads. When asked if he would choose Maccas or mac and cheese, he said Maccas, although Amelia says Dad makes mac and cheese at home.
54 New Zealand Trucking
September 2022
NZ-Truc
