Truckarchive is undergoing a server and software upgrade over the next few months that will result in a speedier site with enhanced user functionality. Keep an eye on this site, as we are soon to open up much of the resource accumulated over four decades..

Truckarchive is a digital storehouse of New Zealand road transport photos and video clips.

This ever expanding collection provides material for the production of transport related video clips and documentaries to promote our industry and record its history.

It is currently being upgraded with increased server capacity, and amongst its improvements, will offer user uploads for viewers to add their own historically significant image to further safeguard our industry’s history.

Welcome to our latest production - very much a Southland & Otago story...

40 years of CVC, 60 years of Nissan Diesel/UD Trucks...

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.

Truckarchive is an ever growing repository for video, photo's and articles dedicated to illustrating the history and unique aspects of the New Zealand road transport industry.

Anyone can keep up to-date with newly up-loaded content and up-dates by following us on Facebook and YouTube.

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 –

to provide a ‘digital resting place’ for the photographs, films, video and collections of the NZ Road Transport industry that might be lost to us otherwise – in order to-
Ensure there is a at least one digital copy in existence as a back-up against the floods, fires and earthquakes that claim so much of our history
Pool this material in order to establish a resource to help promote the industry via media and print
Establish an educational resource to promote career paths within the industry
High-light the diversity and necessity of the job by producing videos that showcases the unique nature of the New Zealand road transport industry

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!