See how the industry evolved with Episodes 1-3 of the Truck Files documentary, which went to air in the early 2020s, and from a swag of other videos shot over several decades throughout New Zealand that showcases how much things have changed in our industry…
CVC - A retrospective 1985-2025
Southland headquartered company - Commercial Vehicle Centre - better known as CVC, marked their 40-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.
Truck Files - The New Zealand story -Episode 1.
The birth of an industry that changed the world...
Truck Files - The New Zealand story - Episode 2.
Big changes in the road-transport industry...
Truck Files - The New Zealand story - Episode 3.
De-regulation changed everything and the industry rose to the challenge...
Trucks Files 1 - Back Tracks
This was the first of the 'Truck Files' series, which focuses on the side of the road transport industry not often seen by the general public.
Shot over the closing years of the 1990s, it captures brands no longer seen in New Zealand, such as Foden, while others such as Mack and Kenworth are now synonymous with N. Z. trucking.
Truck Files 4 - The Long Lap
Truck Files 4 - The Long Lap
Truck Files 2 - Oversize
We go bush with some of the rigs that work in New Zealand's largest forest - the Kaingaroa, where Tri-drives and logging trains move big loads, Kenworth, Western Star, Pacific, Mack and others from thirty years ago.
Legacy - D'Urville Island fert run.
What it takes to get the fert to the station - trucks and a barge...
Truck Files vol 3 Truck Torque
Truck Files Vol 3 Truck Torque goes bush, with Taggertt with their tri-drive Iveco amongst other clips of what it to be a truck driver in New Zealand.
Legacy - Road Metals Deep Cove
Road Metal Macks working in Fiordland on the most remote road in NZ...
TF-6 Movie
TF-6 Movie
Legacy - 1990 T650 Kenworth.m4v
A tough old girl, fitted with a C444 Cummins earns her pay the hard way...
Legacy - 1965 KW - Steptoe
The 60's was an era of great change, exemplified by this truck...
Legacy - 1997 - Fert - Ship to dirt
When the Fert-boat pull in, it's non-stop work for the trucks...
Legacy - Lilybank Station 1999
Livestock drivers can have the best office in the world...
Legacy - The importance of the GMC CCKW to New Zealand
GMC CCKW's save the day...
Legacy - Allied in the wilderness
Fuel tankers at work in Fiordland and the back-country...
Legacy - Wind farm - Dan Smith Industries
Moving a 400-tonne crane with Daniel Smith Industries...
Legacy - wood chips 2000
A D11 Chipdozer at Port Tauranga...
Legacy - Concorde V12 Detroit 1999
This V12 Detroit Diesel powered Kenworth was revolutionary when it first appeared...
Legacy - International ProSleeper stock unit.m4v
An International ProSleeper Eagle at work on livestock haulage in the back-blocks of Canterbury.
Legacy - First T-909 Kenworth 2012
The first T909 Kenworth to go to work in New Zealand...
NZ Road Carriers Association.mp4
In 1966 The New Zealand Road Carriers Association commissioned a film about the industry to promote its activities.
Many of the problems they had then - we still have now - however the equipment has got substantially better - and this is a great look back at an industry that was about to undergo massive change in the following decades when it was deregulated....
Legacy - Fulton Hogan SLT Merc
This Mercedes-Benz Actros SLT Heavy Duty tractor was the first of its model in the Southern Hemisphere.
It boasted a 250-tonne towing capability and a unique tower-cooled transmission-system that allowed tremendous masses to be moved on gradiants that would more than likely detonate more conventional drivetrains.
Filmed over two distinctively differing shifts, both on and off-road, this tractor was a bold move for Futon Hogan's Heavy Haul division at the time.
MAUNGATANIWHA - Steptoe returns
'Steptoe' was put to work in 1965 and was one of the first Kenworths in the country.
This clip commemorates 'Steptoe's' early days by taking a run with some other old rigs from the era into his original stamping grounds.