Truckarchive is a Heritage Project designed to collate and display as much of the photographic and video history of the New Zealand road transport industry as we can unearth.
We provide a digital architecture to showcase these images, that collectively will help tell the story of our industry.
Many of these images will add to the resource needed for further video productions, some of which can be seen here.
Truckarchive invites you to help with this project by commenting on, or uploading images you consider important enough to showcase.
A new gallery will be posted every Friday and along with video clips and other material of interest.
Our previous site had over 500 pages, which we are in the process of refining into a more accessible format.
This is a massive project, based around some truly huge collections, and it is only just recently that we feel the technology has matured enough to make this site able to achieve its potential.
We’d welcome your help to create more stories of our industry…
Our objectives are –
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.
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!
