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Pinfolds Transport celebrating 100 On the 1st of May 2020 Pinfolds Transport marks its 100th anniversary. A pretty impressive accomplishment to achieve in one of the toughest industries to be in.
in the 1920s, a Leyland with solid tyres, four-cylinder motor, and carbon lights. Since then, the Pinfolds trucks and their distinctive livery in the colours derived from the New Zealand flag, have been as much a part of the Wairarapa landscape as the rolling hills that Walter would drive over to the coast, with his young son Alan (Podge) as company and helper.
Celebrations that were to take place at the Carterton Rugby Club on the 2nd of May have had to be postponed. Owners Steven (Steve) and Karen Pinfold had the venue booked, the caterers and the cake organised, the invitations had just arrived back from the printers, but with COVID-19 starting to rear its ugly head they made the decision to postpone the celebrations. They weren’t prepared to put people’s lives at risk especially as they were expecting quite a few elderly people to attend. It turned out to be the right decision as a week later the country was in lockdown.
Walter and young Alan (Podge). [Inset] Pinfold trucks and their distinctive livery have been a part of the Wairarapa landscape for 100 years.
When Walter and Ted took over Cornwell Mews, Shaw & Cole Livery Stables, it had already been going 34 years.
After returning from WWI Steve’s grandfather Walter Pinfold, along with his brother in-law law Edgar (Ted) Follows purchased the Cornwell Mews Livery stables, which became Follows and Pinfold.
They purchased four or five horses, carts and rigs, as well as a stable in the middle of Carterton which is now an empty section next to Vinnie’s charity store. In his time Walter saw the transformation from horse and cart to motorised vehicles, with the company’s first truck being purchased
Today the business is run by Walter’s grandson Steve and wife Karen. Their son Ethan (also known as “Podge” by his mates) is the fourth generation to work in the business and is currently working his way through the licence classes, currently holding a Class 4 licence. The couple run a modern fleet, focusing solely on livestock cartage anywhere in the North Island south of Auckland. When Karen and Steve took over Pinfolds Transport, they wanted to modernise and put their mark on the fleet without changing the fleet colours.
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years as part of Wairarapa’s rural story “Now more than ever it is important for transport companies to work together - something Dad has always believed in.”
With their drivers’ input and the expertise of the team at Rob Walker Spraypainters & Smash Repairs, the couple came up with the company’s new image, with the “Pinfolds” logo on the side of the truck and trailers.
Livestock transportation isn’t just a job at Pinfolds, it’s a way of life.
Like Walter and wife Molly, and Podge and his wife June, Steve and Karen have kept alive the Pinfolds philosophy of being a “family orientated business”. It is definitely not a get-richquick business, and not one for the faint hearted, Steve says.
Pinfolds is built on a strong foundation of family values. “We’re nothing without the hard-working people that make our business what it is. Getting livestock from A to B is only part of the job,” says Steve. Third generation owners of Pinfold Transport Steve and Karen Pinfold. [Right] Ethan Pinfold is the fourth generation to work in the family business.
“It’s in the blood. You have to have a passion for the business. With low margins and a highly regulated industry that is constantly changing, there are many challenges to overcome.
“It’s not just sitting behind the wheel driving a truck, it’s a very physical job loading and off-loading stock in all kinds of weather you have to be very patient.
“And to top it off, stock numbers are declining due to urban sprawl and forestry and bees taking over productive farm land.”
“Lifting and dropping the floors all day weighing anywhere from 15-20kg, there’s no need to go to the gym.
Add to that a nationwide shortage of truck drivers getting livestock drivers is even harder, Karen adds.
“Our staff also have to be able to check the stock’s welfare while counting stock as they load, all at
the same time, make sure all paperwork is filled in correctly. “Then there’s the long hours they are away from their family due to delivery times. “There are no set hours, no day is ever the same they don’t always know when they are starting what that day’s work will involve as it is constantly changing.” With the nationwide shortage of drivers, drivers now have
options and are leaving the livestock industry for driving jobs that give them better hours of work,” Steve says. “This is having a huge impact on our industry and you really have to look after your staff and pay them what they are worth if you want them to stay. “This is one of the reasons we put so much importance on our drivers because without them we don’t have a business.
“We’re dedicated to providing a high-quality service every step of the way so our loyal farmers know their stock is in good hands.” Steve and Karen would like to thank all the business’ present and past staff and family members for being part of the Pinfolds family story over the past 100 years. They are all an important part of the history of Pinfolds. And a big THANK YOU to all their loyal customers, agents, suppliers and staff for their support over these years.
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It all began with a horse and cart Officially, Pinfolds Transport marks its 100th anniversary this year – a remarkable achievement for any business. However, founder Walter Pinfold’s son Alan (Podge) was always adamant that Walter actually started the business in 1919 after his return from the war, as he states in many trucking magazines articles, but the purchase wasn’t rubber stamped until 1920. The company now has official records showing the finalisation of the purchase on the 1st of May 1920, as discovered in articles in online newspaper archive Papers Past. If one was to include the 34 years or so that Shaws Carriers & Livery Stables, the business Walter purchased, has already been operating it would mean the origins of the business go all the way back to the mid-1880s! A whopping total of 134 years. Similarly, the Pinfold family’s involvement with farming goes back a full five generations. Walter’s grandparents were farmers in England before emigrating to New Zealand in
[Left] Edgar (Ted) and Gladys Follows. [Centre] Walter and Molly. [Right] Molly, Walter and baby Eileen after Walter’s accident.
1875 and establishing a farm at Woodville, moving further south to farm near Carterton in the early 1900s before the war. Born in 1895, Walter grew up on the farm, returning to New Zealand in 1919 after serving with the New Zealand army during World War I. With his brother-in-law Edgar (Ted) Follows, Walter purchased Cornwall Mews Shaw & Cole Carriers & Livery Stables which was located on High Street, Carterton, on what is now an empty section next to Vinnies, eventually shifting the depot to Rhodes Street.
The business inherited four or five horses, cart rigs, and a stable, and carted a wide range of goods. By 1928 Edgar had sold his share to Walter and the business became W.A.R Pinfold, General Carrier. Walter saw the changes from horse and cart to motorised lorries and the first truck Pinfolds bought was a Leyland with solid tyres, a four-cylinder motor, and carbon lights. During the war, Walter had suffered serious gunshot wounds to his right leg during the Battle of the Somme.
Walter met his wife Molly when he was stationed in London after being injured. They got married in London in July 1919. Then in 1920, not long after purchasing the business, and only two weeks after Walter and Molly’s daughter Eileen was born, Walter had a major accident with a horse and cart, hurting his bad leg, spending six months in hospital, leaving Ted to run the business on his own and Molly with a new born baby at home alone. The rest of his life Walter walked with a limp.
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In an article in Truck & Driver magazine in 2003, his son Alan (always better known as “Podge”) who was born 5th September 1922 - recalled accompanying his father on trips to the Wairarapa coast, carting goods on dirt roads over the rolling hill country. “We’d leave at probably four or five in the morning and get back at seven at night. The truck could do maybe eight miles an hour. “Going out over some of the hills, when she started to get hot, I’d run behind, carrying a big block of wood to put behind the back wheel. We’d wait for the engine to cool down and then take off again.” Even years later when carting stock from the coast to the Waingawa Freezing Works at Masterton, the trip was a major exercise with the truck making the journey to the farms with a load of fertiliser or other product and sheep crates in broken down form, Podge recalled. “It took six hours to get to the coast so you’d go out there in the afternoon, have a meal at the cook house and stay there the night. “Then you built the crates – bolted them together, two decks. You got back to town about four o’clock.”
[Left] Doug and Eileen Drury (nee Pinfold), Podges sister. [Right] Hay cartage.
By the 1930s Walter had three small trucks. All the work remained local as it was illegal to transport goods more than 30 miles (48 kilometres) so even trips to Eketahuna were impossible. However, it did mean plenty of work taking goods to and from the rail stations. “Dad did a lot of local work, hay and stuff like that,” Podge recalled in Truck & Driver. “Mum ran the phones for the business – I remember our phone number was 22 Carterton. “If my father was down at the river shovelling metal
by hand and there were a couple of jobs come in, Mum would push bike down to the Waiohine Bridge to let him know.” Podge’s wife June got to know Walter and the Pinfold family in the late 1940s. She remembered Walter as a “very quiet and gentle” man who took after his parents. “Walter’s parents were a quiet family who got on with what they did. Walter was a very patient man.” Molly was from Ireland, and on a return trip to visit family with a young Alan, and his older sister Eileen, the family liked him so much they called
him Podge. This stuck with him for the remainder of his life. “It was supposed to be a very highly regarded name in those days.” Podge trained as an apprentice electrician after leaving school, joining the New Zealand Army in 1941 then transferring to the Navy, returning to Carterton in 1945 at the end of the war. He finished his apprenticeship with the Wairarapa Electric Power Board, helping his father in his spare time, before joining the business full time in 1946 with his brother-in-law Doug Drury.
Doug married Podge’s sister Eileen Pinfold. He ran the business until his passing after a short illness in November 1968. Podge met June a local baker’s daughter and later Podge and June were married in 1950. In 1954 Podge took over the business from his father and the business went from W.A.R Pinfold to Pinfolds Transport, though his father still helped around the yard. His brother-in-law Doug managed the office side of things from the late 1950s up until his sudden passing in November 1968.
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It all began with a horse and cart, continued Around that time Pinfolds had four or five trucks at any one time – petrol driven Bedfords, Commers and Chevs. Walter carried on working for around 15 years after Podge joined – “even though his legs were getting pretty sore [from the war wound],” Podge said in Truck & Trailer. “Even when he was getting on, he’d still go and buy a Number 8 square mouth shovel – then he’d go and put another four inches on the front of it again. His shovel used to be that bloody long.” Pinfolds continued to grow after World War II, adding livestock cartage to its eclectic mix of work that included hay, silage cutting and carting, coal and metal, and milk, first by can and then by tanker. It had the contract to pick up milk from the farms in the area and deliver to the dairy factories until their closure. The company also took out a 20-year lease on the lime works at Ahiaruhe. If the bodies of the trucks had to be altered for specific job, Podge and his staff would do it themselves, with Podge’s engineering skills learned at school coming in handy.
[Left] Walter Pinfold. [Right] Stock on the move from a coastal station
Pinfolds built all its own decks, trailers and crates, and at one stage engineered its own system for swapping milk can trays. However, by the early 1970s tough certification regulations sounded the death knell for Pinfolds’ traditional DIY approach.
By the early 1980s the depot at Rhodes Street had become too small and after a threeyear legal battle with the National Roads Board and Ministry of Works, a planning tribunal okayed the relocation of transport activities to Clareville, Carterton. In the mid-1960s the company purchase a dairy farm at Matarawa as a hedge against the transport business ever going bad.
The 150-kilometre limit on transporting goods by road was removed in the 1980s, and the company began concentrating on its core business of livestock cartage, till by 2002 it had ceased carting its only other commodity – beer – something Walter had carted way back in the early days.
It was first managed by the Jefferies, then Judith and Keith Tildesly, then Henry Gibbons and his family. Henry also drove for Pinfolds and his family have fond memories of growing up with Pinfolds
being a big part of their lives. Then May and Arthur Turner and after that by Podge’s daughter Alison and her husband Terry Brady, later by Troy and Julie MacGregor, until it was sold after Podge’s passing in 2008. Podge also purchased a grazing block in Chester Road in 1990 where daughter Christine worked, the trucking business outliving both which was bought by his son Steve and his wife Karen after Podge’s passing. Walter was on the local Road Transport Association committee and keen on his rugby, playing for Gladstone before World War II.
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After the war he enjoyed watching rugby, following the race horses, and like many a kiwi male of his generation drinking his flagons of beer. Walter passed away 1965. Podge, too, was sports mad, playing representative schoolboy soccer before turning to rugby at high school. He played centre or wing for Carterton, and represented Wairarapa. In 1947 Podge played for the North Island team and made the All Black trials as a 25-year-old. He stopped playing rugby in 1950, then joined the Wairarapa Millhilians Golden Oldies rugby team in 1985, playing up to his death in 2008, in nine Golden Oldies international tournaments. Podge was also a keen competitive swimmer all his life, a life member of Carterton swimming club, and attended world championships, his children enjoying the sport with him. A strong supporter of the Returned Services Association, Podge was one of the main negotiators for the planning and building of the Carterton Memorial Club (RSA), was on its committee for a number of years, and was a president and
[Left] June and Podge. [Centre] Podges last trip around the yard. [Right] Podge in his Golden Oldies uniform.
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Podge was a long-time member and supporter of the Road Transport Association since 1946 at all levels including local president and vice-president and was held in high regard by everyone around.
As well as holding office on the Wairarapa branch over many years, Podge played an active part in the Carta region, particularly with issues that affected rural carriers.
He was very supportive of togetherness among carriers, according to his obituary in TRUCK Journal. “He always said that by working together the industry could solve most of the problems that it faced and achieve equitable outcomes for all the parties concerned. “He also believed that carriers should cooperate where possible to minimise empty running, thus increasing
“Podge often reminded meetings that there are not too many issues that have not arisen and been solved at some other time over the years,” TRUCK Journal said. A mark of the esteem that Podge was held in by those who knew him, was the attendance at his funeral which saw around more than 800 attending. A special feature was the use of the smallest Pinfolds feeder truck with crate removed.
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A wreath adorned coffin on its final journey from the Carterton RSA to the Clareville cemetery, tied down with bailing twine - something Podge was well known for to fix gates and fences around his properties. This trip included the truck making a detour through the Pinfolds Transport depot where the rest of the fleet were parked in the front paddock all in a row and groomed to gleaming condition. At one stage the business grew to around 22 trucks but with trucks becoming larger and able to cart bigger loads and the company specialising in livestock cartage this has reduced over the years.
The business changed its official name to Pinfolds Transport (2008) Ltd when Steve and Karen purchased the business after Podge’s passing. Steve says it’s always just been known as “Pinfolds” a local family operated business. Steve and Karen now run the business with seven trucks, with Pinfolds Transport located at Parkvale, east of Carterton since October last year. “We don’t want it to get any bigger,” Steve says. “We want to look after our loyal farmers we have and keep the business family oriented with the experienced staff that we have. It’s a good manageable size.”
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A lifelong bond
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My first involvement with Pinfolds was 30 years ago as a shepherd and since then as a farm owner.
Chuck Hausman was just back from Japan where he had been serving with the New Zealand Army J Force, and at a loose end, when a ride in the country one afternoon led to him working for Pinfolds Transport for five years. “I had come back to New Zealand in 1947 and hadn’t been able to settle back down into my old job at the Carterton Brick and Pipe Works. I had tried lots of other jobs and one day was having a brown lunch at the Marquis (of Normanby Hotel) and starting chatting to a man whose son was working for Pinfolds. “I was sick of propping up the bar and wanted to go for a ride so we popped out to where they were doing some hay carting. They said they were looking for staff and I ended staying with them for five years.” Chuck drove an old 1931 Leyland Cub, 1947 Austin and 1950 Austin Loadstar, which were used for everything from fertiliser spreading, to shovelling coal, to carting hay and livestock.
It’s great to be able to acknowledge their significant milestone in reaching 100 years in business, and to be able to celebrate their success in doing so.
Chuck Hausman with a truck hand-loaded with clay pipes
Newly wed to Gladys, the couple eventually moved to Waikato where Chuck worked in the forestry industry. Walter and Molly Pinfold were an excellent couple to work for, Chuck remembers. “They were a terrific couple to work for, who really looked after you. “Wally was a lot like a father to me and because I didn’t have a good relationship with my father, I got him to be the father of the groom at our wedding.” Molly, who Walter met when he was in London during World War I, was a “real Irishwoman,” recalls Chuck.
The family ties were strengthened by the fact that Walter’s brother George married Chuck’s mother’s sister. Whenever they returned to Wairarapa for visits, Chuck and Gladys would always make a point of visiting the Pinfolds, and Chuck still does. Aged 94, Chuck still holds trucking licences for classes 1 to 6 and F.R.T.W. For 20 years he volunteered as driver for the Life Education Trust Mobile Classroom in Waikato, and for five years drove the van for the retirement village he lives in.
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dealing with local people in a local business so enjoyable. Nothing is ever a problem despite the marginal roads into our property that are involved. And their professional attitude takes some beating. They are the gold standard for “service with a smile” and have always been willing to get involved in community events. I can only wish them the best for the next 100 years.
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Pinfolds Transport’s involvement with the Golden Shears goes back almost to the beginning of the event.
As a strong family business, Pinfolds believes in supporting the local community.
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Pinfolds is the only transport business used by the Golden Shears to bring sheep in from the farms and return them home again.
But they don’t only support local business. They are also avid sponsors of local sports teams, organisations, and fundraisers. Without consistent sponsorship from businesses like Pinfolds, some of these organisations wouldn’t be able to carry out the amazing work they do.
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Over more than 50 years, its drivers have got this down to a fine art, getting the stock delivered on time and with as little stress as possible for the shearers and sheep.
The Golden Shears in late 1980s
It is important that the stock that is shorn is cleared from the yards before the next truck arrives with the next lot of sheep to be shorn. Rain is the biggest challenge, as the sheep have to be completely dry for the competitors. To achieve this, Pinfolds designed custom-made covers to go over its trucks. The person the drivers work with at the Golden Shears is yard manager Stephen Siemonek who has been in this role for 25 years. “They have been fantastic. Their drivers know their
Unloading stock ready for the next competition in 2013
travelling and loading times which is a big advantage. “They are all very experienced and make sure the sheep are there at the right time, and then they get them out as soon as they are finishe d and get the next lot in.” Sam Saunders, President of
the Golden Shears committee says Pinfolds is “always very reliable and very communityminded. “They have never been a problem. All the drivers are good to deal with. They look after the stock which have to be handled with care for what is the prime shearing competition in the world.”
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They have donated to a range of local organisations Pinfolds including; is proud Gladstone to be annual Sherry Herrick, Partnership Rugby Club, Fortitude Thai Manager at sponsors of: &LifeDevelopment Flight Trust, giving Steve Boxing, Kuranui Pinfold Community Partner • East Coast College First XV Plaque for Sponsorship Rugby Rugby team, • Life Flight Trust Greytown Cricket Club, Catwalk Trust, Going • Wairarapa-Bush Rugby Banana’s Show, Kids Day • Carterton Rugby Out, Alfredton District Sports • Golden Shears for over 50 Club, Mauriceville School, years Eketahuna Lawn Mower Racing Club and Wairarapa • Te Wharau Dog Trials Masters Hockey.
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Pinfolds Transport depots “ Pinfolds Transport has operated out of several yards over the past 100 years, all within the Carterton district. The first was Cornwall Mews, Shaw and Cole Livery on High Street, Carterton, next to what is now known as Vinnie’s charity store. In 1930 Walter Pinfold moved the business to Rhodes Street where Walter and Molly lived,
and then as the business grew they purchased the land behind Smith Hare Christison, where the Mobil Service Station is now located, while the office and the workshop remained in Rhodes Street. They also purchased a section behind what is now Kelly & Co Realty where they also parked trucks. By the late 1970s, as the
business extended Podge purchased the property at Clareville, but due to a three-year legal battle with the National Roads Board and Ministry of Works, it wasn’t until the early 1980s that a planning tribunal okayed the relocation of transport activities to Clareville. Last October, Pinfolds moved to its present depot at Scott’s Ag Contracting at Parkvale.
We operate a 600ha sheep, beef and sheep milking farm. We process the milk into high protein, prebiotic flavoured, and plain sheep milk. We have used Pinfolds Transport for all stock cartage on our sheep & beef farm since we started in 1995. They are an awesome familyowned business that puts a great deal back into the community.
Jeff Ravenswood – Fernglen Farm
Cornwall Mews, Shaw and Cole Livery
The depot behind Smith Hare Christison service station
The Clareville yard.
The trucks lined up at Parkvale
We have worked with Pinfolds Transport for three generations of stock cartage. We move a lot of cows, 1500 to 2000, from our Gladstone farm to runoffs and we can rely on them to provide the transport. It is an important job and they do it very well. They have been good stockmen, give a very good service and are very reliable. Bruce Patrick
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A love of trucks Hugh McPhee worked off and on for Pinfolds Transport so often that it became a bit of joke as to how long he was going to stay each time.
Mike Rzoska started with Pinfolds Transport back in 1981 and has clocked up 39 years with the company.
Now retired, as a young boy Hugh lived in one of the houses attached to Dalefield Cheese factory where his father was the butter maker.
There’s not many people or places Mike doesn’t know with his wealth of experience and knowledge.
The Pinfolds trucks would cart cheese from the factory to Carterton rail station and coal from the station to the factory. Hugh used to go for rides with Podge without his mother knowing and this is where he got his love of trucking. He joined the business officially when he was 16 when Doug Drury, who had married Podge’s sister Eileen, was managing it. “The business had gotten a bit run down, and Doug and Jack Lenihan got it up and running again, and built it up into quite a big business.” Hugh stayed 18 months, and then worked for the business again from 1965 to1966, and then again in the early 1970s. By then the business was carrying more stock,
Variety the spice of working life
Mike remembers that his first job was to load wool on to trucks from the various shearing sheds.
Hugh recalls.
Since then he has filled a huge number of roles, working in the workshop rebuilding trailers and new truck decks, driving a Commer truck to pick up wood shavings from a furniture company, taking fertiliser to airstrips on farms, driving fertiliser top dressing trucks, taking wool to Wellington, and beer to hotels. Mike stopped working full-time five years ago
and these days only works occasionally for Pinfolds, mainly to take a truck for a COF. “I enjoyed working for Pinfolds. I must have as I stayed there for 39 years. I liked the work and travel. We had a great time. Podge and June, and Steve and Karen always made sure we were well looked after.”
“The railways had stopped carting sheep and so we would take them to Wellington mostly, and less often to the Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay.” Hugh worked for Pinfolds again from 1979 to 1982, and then part-time from 2003. His boys Craig, Glen and Mark also worked for Pinfolds. They were always involved with the company from a very young age, going for rides with their Dad, and Mark still works for Pinfolds today.
Loading wool has been one of Mike’s many jobs
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Animal instincts served Caddy well While it is the trucks that carry the livestock, it is the drivers who played a large part in making Pinfolds Transport a successful business, owners Steve and Karen Pinfold believe. One of the longest serving was Warren (Caddy) Cadwallader who started back in 1976 and retired just two years ago. Caddy was 42 when he joined Pinfolds after milking cows on dairy farms. “I was sick of getting up at 4am in the morning. My heart wasn’t in it.” Caddy started off driving Pinfolds’ Comer and Bedford trucks which over time grew into three axle trucks, three axle trucks and trailers and eventually four axle trucks and trailers. Driving the larger trucks often meant spending nights away from home which Caddy did not enjoy as he was getting older. So in more recent years he drove Pinfolds’ smaller feeder truck, picking up livestock from smaller blocks where bigger trucks can’t go. When Caddy joined Pinfolds
Caddy at work, photo taken by late Tim Chadwick
in the 1970s it transported a range of rural goods and materials but by the 1990s concentrated solely on livestock. Caddy has transported a range of animals in his truck, “sheep, cattle, pigs, the odd horse or goats.” Transporting livestock requires a lot more skills than simply driving, Caddy points out.
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“Especially the cattle. You get quite good at picking out the one or two anti-social ones to be wary of. “But this is not as much of an issue now, because with tagging and so on cattle are handled by humans a lot more. Sometimes you used to go and pick up animals that had never seen a person before.”
Caddy remembers Podge as a good boss to work for. “If he wanted something done a certain way, you could argue against it, but it always got done his way, anyway. He was an honest man who expected you to do a day’s work for a day’s pay. He went through some pretty tough times and treated everyone fairly. He was a good boss to work for.”
Toddy – Pinfolds’ faithful mechanic Another of the longest serving members of the Pinfolds team was its in-house mechanic Graham Todd, better known as Toddy, who joined the business in 1988 after running his own garage in Carterton, clocking up 32 years. A man who could “fix almost anything”, Toddy continued to work on a part time basis until they shifted out to Parkvale in October last year.
He also looked after the yards and paddocks, feeding out to any stock being held in paddocks, as well as maintaining the truck wash and making sure everything ran smoothly. Toddy was also well known for his rather “hot” homemade pickled onions which had to be cooled down with a beer or two after work on a Friday afternoon. It was a challenge to see who could eat the most.
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Meet the team
Mark McPhee
Craig Duncan
Ngaire Kearney
Mike Roscoe
Ethan Pinfold
Mark started with us in 1999. He left a couple of times to pursue other things but returned and has clocked up nearly 14 years with Pinfolds
Craig came to us from Farmers Transport when they closed their Masterton branch in 2014 and has worked for us for six years.
Ngaire works administration part-time and has worked for Pinfolds since 2009.
Ethan is one of the fourth generations to work in the business as a truck driver and is our youngest driver at nearly 23 years old.
His Dad Hugh McPhee started working for Pinfolds when Doug Drury was running the business back around 1960.
Craig has a wealth of knowledge in the industry, having worked as a dispatcher.
Mike has worked for Pinfolds now for 39 years and is retired but still works as a casual, usually to take trucks for a COF when the boys are busy. Mike spends most of his spare time racing lawn mowers and is president of the “Eketahuna Lawn Mower Club”.
Mark is very experienced in the industry, having grown up around trucks and going for many a drive as a young lad with his Dad.
Having been an owner-driver himself, Craig understands the tough demands on livestock operators. He has a vast knowledge of our clients and the area, and steps in to help Steve out when he needs a break.
Ngaire is extremely talented and as well as working for Pinfolds runs her own successful business – “Burnt offerings” where she turns plain objects into works of art.
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Robert Robinson
Neil started working for us last year and came to us from Craig Pepperell Livestock Cartage. He comes experienced in livestock cartage and has good knowledge of the area.
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Robert is semi-retired and works for us part-time. Robert is very experienced and has a wealth of knowledge in the industry. Brian previously worked for Martinborough Transport for a number of years. Both Robert and his brother Brian have previously worked for Pinfolds Transport.
Ethan is working his way through his classes as he gains experience. He currently has his Class 4 and once he has gained enough experience, will start working at his Class 5. Ethan takes after his Dad Steve and is always happy, with a big smile for everyone.
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Pinfolds Transport is capable of carting livestock anywhere in the North Island this side of Auckland. Pinfolds is fully experienced when it comes to transporting all kinds of livestock. We take great pride in our experienced team and topquality fleet.
Quality reliable service is key to Pinfolds success Getting livestock from A to B is only part of the job at Pinfolds. We’re dedicated to providing you with great quality service every step of the way. You know your stock is in good hands when it’s with us. • •
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We have been dairy farming at Kokotau, Carterton since 1981 dealing initially with Podge Pinfold (Steve’s father) and now Steve and Karen. Over the years, we have increased the land that we We started using Pinfolds Transport 41 years ago when I was managing a sheep & beef farm at Whareama. Podge Pinfold ran the business then. The stock agents Barry McAnulty, Eddie Holmes and Ted Payne were all very loyal to Pinfolds and would use them all the time. When we went out on
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Livestock Assurance Programme (NZLTA) Members of the Road Transport Association (RTA) since 1946 Able to cart to any works within the North Island Experienced with herd shifts Farm to farm store stock Cartage of calves for Alliance Serving stock sales All our trucks are well serviced and maintained
farm now encompassing six properties. We move approximately 1500 dairy cows twice a year – to grazing and then returning to the dairy platforms to calve. We also move associated dry stock
between farms.
our own 38 years ago, buying and leasing farms ourselves, we would always use Pinfolds for carrying animals to and from our farm. They have carried a hell of a lot of stock for us over the years!
of the day’s Dominion newspaper with them. That was one of the little gestures they did.
Whenever the Pinfolds truck came to the farm early in the morning, the driver would bring a copy
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Congratulations to Steve and Karen of Pinfolds Transport on achieving 100 years in business.
Pinfolds have always been our preferred livestock trucking company – they are punctual, efficient – we ring them, they come no hassle. They are careful with stock. They know our
They used to have incredible Christmas parties every year with the family and staff doing all the cooking. and they have been great supporters of the community including sponsoring the East Coast
Respect for livestock Our drivers are experienced livestock handlers, and we are committed to ensuring that all livestock is treated humanely and with proper regard to their welfare. We are members of the NZ Livestock Assurance Programme (NZLTA) which means all our drivers have to be accredited to cart and handle livestock.
properties, know our system and we couldn’t ask for more in a livestock trucking company. We congratulate them on achieving 100 years in business. Richard Stevenson
Rugby Club. We still use Pinfolds and it is a great achievement that they have reached 100 years as a family-owned rural transport business. Congratulations to Steve and Karen and the Pinfolds team. Wayne and Margaret Fleming
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