Started by drivers, still run by them.
We are a family that has run its own trucks for sixteen years. Moving other people's is a newer part of what we do, and it exists because people kept asking.
Running trucks
16 years
Ownership
Family owned
Based
Auckland
Coverage
Both islands
Sixteen years of running our own.
The family has been running trucks for sixteen years. Our own gear, our own drivers, our own money on the line every time something went wrong. Long enough to know which yards are impossible to get out of at five o’clock and how a ferry booking really works.
Over those years people kept asking for a favour. A dealer with a truck sold to a buyer three regions away. An operator who did not want to pull a driver off a paying run to go and fetch something. It kept happening, and the people asking kept saying the same thing: there is nobody good to call for this.
So we stopped doing it as a favour and started doing it properly.
Four things we are not budging on.
We drive them ourselves
The person in your truck is one of us, not a name off a list we rang that morning. Sixteen years of running our own gear is the whole reason anyone should trust us with theirs.
Photograph everything
A walkaround and photos before we pull out, and again when we arrive. It takes ten minutes and it means nobody has to take anybody's word for anything later.
Say what we can actually do
We are a small operation and we would rather turn a job down than take it and let you down. If we cannot get to it when you need it, you will hear that on the first call.
Treat it like it is ours
We know what it costs to put a truck on the road and what it feels like when one comes back marked. Yours gets driven the way we drive our own.
How we got here.
- The start
One truck, and a lot to learn
Placeholder: how the family got into trucks in the first place, and what that first vehicle was.
- Building up
From one truck to a working fleet
Placeholder: the years of running freight, the work that kept coming back, and how the fleet grew.
- Sixteen years in
Knowing the roads properly
Placeholder: the routes, the ferry runs and the yards the family has come to know from doing it week in, week out.
- The gap
People kept asking for a favour
Placeholder: the moment it became obvious other operators and dealers needed trucks moved and had nobody good to call.
- Today
Doing it for other people too
Placeholder: starting to take relocation work on properly, and where the family wants to take it next.
Why you would use us over anyone else.
16 years
We have been the customer
We have had our own trucks moved, and we have had them come back late and marked. Everything we do differently comes from being on the receiving end of it first.
One driver
No hand-offs, no sub-contracting
Your truck is driven by one person from pickup to delivery. Nobody swaps it over halfway, and it does not get passed to whoever happened to be cheapest that morning.
Small
You get the family, not a call centre
Ring the number and you will get someone who knows your job. Being small is the limitation and the whole point of us at the same time.
Small, and straight with you about it.
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Years running trucks
Our own fleet, on our own gear
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Islands covered
Ferry crossings included
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Family owned and operated
New Zealand owned
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Driver per truck
Start to finish, no hand-offs
You will deal with the same few people.
A small operation, so the same few people handle your job from the first call to the handover.
Owner
Has been driving trucks the whole sixteen years, and still prices most jobs himself.
Bookings and scheduling
The person who answers the phone and builds the run sheet around your dates.
Our drivers
On our own books, not subcontracted. The same one takes your truck the whole way.
Compliance and paperwork
Trade plates, Annex C inspections and the documents that travel with the unit.
Got something that needs shifting?
Tell us what the truck is and where it is sitting. If it is a job for us you will get a price and a date. If it is not, we will tell you that instead.