Truckarchive has evolved into a Heritage Project.
Originally a digital storehouse for a large collection of New Zealand’s road transport photos and video clips, Truckarchive was created 15-years ago amid the rubble of post-earthquake Christchurch.
Much was lost to the bulldozers at the time, and more so to the floods, fires and untimely-deaths since.
If for no other reason that the grandkids might see what you drove, or owned – this is the place to safeguard your images and memories.
Those old photographs of our industry now have a home and we are geared up to host them for you.
Get them digitalised, and up-load them to a relevant page on this site, and we will ensure that there will now be at east two-copies in existence, or we can create your own page.
Not only will this help safe-guard that image, but it will help expand the pool of knowledge and images to help create transport related video clips, interviews and documentaries to promote our industry and record its history.
This website is currently being upgraded with increased server capacity, and user photo-uploads and comments are integrated.
We can create and host individual collections tailored to specific requirements, for public viewing or password protected.
Southland headquartered company – Commercial Vehicle Centre – better known as CVC, marked their 40th-year of operations in 2025 and this video celebrates both this, and how Nissan Diesel (now UD Trucks) became so much a feature of the Southland and South Island trucking landscape.
It’s a celebration of 60 years of UD in New Zealand, 40 years of CVC and marks 50-years of service by CVC icon – Ken Seyb.
We had over 1,000 images of Nissan Diesel product in our archives to help produce this doco. These images are soon to be available for viewing, comments and hopefully their numbers will be expanded by user-uploading.
Consider helping us fund this project – visit us on Facebook to glean an insight into some of what we host in our archive, or contact the editor.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS SITE IS –
Due to a wide range of factors, New Zealand has relied more heavily upon on its road transport fleet than almost any other comparable country during its short history.
This website celebrates the people, the vehicles and the landscapes that dictated the evolution of the industry.
Help us refine and enlarge this resource, to make more video content, scan and upload the many thousands of images in our archive, and convert this content into a range of video’s that celebrates our industry.
IF YOU ARE INVOLVED IN ROAD TRANSPORT – THIS IS YOUR WEBSITE.
NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POSITION WITHIN THE INDUSTRY, PAST OR PRESENT, YOU HELPED BUILD WHAT YOU WILL SEE ON THESE PAGES.
Travel with TruckArchive as we explore and document the history of the New Zealand road transport industry over 120 years.
We have around 20,000 images waiting to be uploaded.
Great gear, a country renown for its magnificent landscapes, and an ever changing view out the office window.
It also captures how quickly things change in our industry – when photographed in 2009, this Sterling was brand new, but the marque has since disappeared and is now a foot-note of our trucking history – and five-axle B-trains are going the same way here in New Zealand.
Again, a video beckons, as we have plenty of shots of Sterlings and Fords in the files…watch this space.
We are slowing working through a vast catalogue of material shot from the 1980-2011 period – the ‘golden age’ of trucking in New Zealand.
During this time, the government deregulated the road transport industry and the industry we know today was born.
It’s time to dig up the past…so we can appreciate the present!
