Keep On Moving

Graeme Sharp is group sales manager at Royans Transport Accident Repairs and he was out for the offical ribbon cutting of the company's outstanding new facility in Christchurch. We caught up with Sharpie for a chat.

The intellectual might of New Zealand Trucking Media brings all they have to the table in a post workday chat at their local. Sometimes they convince some poor unfortunate soul to join them. The result is more often than not ….. concerning.

Join the team at New Zealand Trucking Media as they talk with senior industry people on business at the moment, direction, and state of the industry and economy.
February was launch month for hte much anticipated New IEVCO Daily. Regional MD Glen Dyer was present at launch event at Tailem Bend in South Austalia. I had the chance to grab 15 minutes for a combined OEM update, and Wider Vew Interview.  

This month in the Keep On Moving UDC Business of Trucking Podcast .

Join the team at New Zealand Trucking Media as they talk with senior industry people on business at the moment, direction, and state of the industry and economy.
February was launch month for the much-anticipated New IVECO Daily. Regional MD Glen Dyer was present at the launch event at Tailem Bend in South Australia. I had the chance to grab 15 minutes for a combined OEM update, and a wider-view Interview.  

Graeme Sharp is group sales manager at Royans Transport Accident Repairs and he was out for the official ribbon cutting of the company's outstanding new facility in Christchurch. We caught up with Sharpie for a chat.

We need to find out more about the new world heading our way. Powering On talks to people in the know and those who have already headed off on a new propulsion journey. We aim to make it not too techy, delivering useful information for those who will still be responsible for delivering our new tomorrow.
For the third year in a row, the international Truck of the Year award was taken away with an electric truck – the DAF XD and XF electrics. I caught up with Commercial Motor editor Will Shiers to ask what the DAF had that got it over the line, and the big question, have we really seen the beginning of the new era and does he think an ICE truck will ever win it again.

Clear the Air is the section where co-host Dave McCoid and his good mate and Environmental champion Lindsay Wood discuss the climate and environmental issues of the day, as they should be discussed – respectfully!
This month, what would the benefits be if we could all be a fly on the wall of each other's conversation and understand each other's perspective on the biggest question facing the world today. Lindsay Wood had the opportunity to do just that recently, and wrote about it in his Clearing the Air column in February's New Zealand Trucking magazine. We talk about it in this show.

On Schedule is the series where Dave McCoid, editorial director at New Zealand Trucking Media, speaks with the National Road Carriers senior team and guests on a broad selection of topical industry subjects as well as the work the association does – the wins, the challenges, and the strategies taken on key issues of the day.
This month, we start the year with our annual scene setter on the economy. Yes, it's Economic Trends 2026, with Infometrics director and chief forecaster Gareth Kiernan. Few in his industry have ability to demystify economics like Gareth, imparting some valuable tools for your decisions making tool chest.

The intellectual might of New Zealand Trucking Media brings all they have to the table in a post-workday chat at their local. Sometimes they convince some poor unfortunate soul to join them. The result is more often than not ….. concerning.
The likely-lads are back for 2026, another year of light-hearted banter and serious contemplation on issues of great concern, and then others of no concern whatsoever. Release your burdens to the universe, grab an ale, and prepare to unwind.

Here is the weekly update on the New Zealand economy with Cameron Bagrie and UDC

This week it's the inaugural Classics Around the Coast classic truck run. One of the entrants is Alan and Lee Tanner's magnificent Mack Super-Liner, purchased new by them in 1981 and restored to full glory.

Back in the early 70s, Alan and Lee Tanner's sawmilling operation in Tairua on the Eastern Coromandel was ankle-tapped by the truck-killing topography of the region. Getting logs to the mill and product to the Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty markets left a trail of tired and expired inferior trucks. Then the big American machines arrived, and their world changed. From then on it was bonnets, power and torque and fleet of magnificent iron. The physical barriers had found their nemesis.

I recorded an interview with Alan a few years back called The Big Trucks of Tanner Sawmills – repeated here for your pleasure on Classics Around the Coast week. 

 

Clear the Air is the section where co-host Dave McCoid and his good mate and Environmental champion Lindsay Wood discuss the climate and envirionmental issues of the day, as they should be discussed - respectfully!
This month, the importance of a Plan B to your Plan A. We're heading into a wolrd  where we're going to need options when Plan A is looking like not it's not going to work.

We need to find out more about the new world heading our way. Powering On talks to people in the know and those who have already headed off on a new propulsion journey. We aim to make it not too techy, delivering useful information for those who will still be responsible for delivering our new tomorrow.
It's no use chasing emissions and carbon if we don't think about tyres becasue they're not going anywhere – our trucks and trailers will need tyres for the forseeable future. What to do with spent tyres has been a huge problem...until Tyrewise. We caught up with 3R Group CEO Adele Rose recently to see how the Tyrewise programme was tracking just over a year in. 

In the OEM update, we talk with a broad cross section of original equipment suppliers to the New Zealand industry.
This month we talk to driector at Straitline Canvas Patrick Currie and get all the gloss about what's new in their business...and yes, we meant 'gloss'