This Heritage Project is 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 the 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…
Every image can now be viewed with either – captions-on, captions-off or an add-information that will be absorbed into the caption details.
This is an example of a well storied truck, with many thanks to Hamish Petrie for providing the information about this truck’s history.
Below every gallery is a drop box so that you guys can add your photos to the galleries, as Don Carson has done in this example – Don’s gallery
Others may have photos of some of the Carson fleet, and can now add those and the details to this archive.
We aim to fill in the gaps as best we can.
These images result in a resource that aids the create of new content about our industry.
We invite you to watch the story of the Nissan Diesel/UD Trucks brand in New Zealand and how instrumental the Commercial Vehicle Centre was to this story, along with its predcessor – HE Melhops.
The images in these galleries helped with the production of this project.
Every week we will upload a new gallery of images on a wide range of subjects that otherwise would never be seen.This study of Dyne’s T904 Kenworth ‘Blue Stella’ is a case in point.
It was cold, muddy and wet and the local timber yard at Tapanui was the only option on the day, but ‘Stella’ scrubbed up ok…
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 it’s history.
This website celebrates the people, the vehicles and the landscapes that dictated the evolution of the industry.
We need your help to 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!
