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New Zealand Trucking

lancef

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Couple more.:)
 

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willie59

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I'm impressed to see some nice "American Muscle" in New Z and down under! That's a sweet Mack Super Liner. But I really like that Mack R model behind it. Nice Trucks. What I'd really like to see, down there, is a Mack B-61 Thermodyne. I'd fall out of my chair if you find one of them, probably the best looking American truck body ever made. I also took notice of post #29 of the White tractor. That looks like a White 9000, man that's from the 70's, and it looks clean and tight! Sharp looking truck. The first "big truck" I drove was a '62 White 4000 with a 160 hp Cummins engine and a 5 x 4 quadraplex Fuller trans set-up. Send us more pics, we love them, you guy's seem to know how to dress up trucks.
 
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RonG

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There are plenty of B-61s in OZ.Some of the guys will point you to the equipment shows they have down there which have pics of them.They have been linked to this site in the past but I cannot remember where the posts are.Ron G
 

lancef

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Some more for ATCOEQUIP.:)
 

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willie59

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I love it! Looks like you guys in New Z and OZ are proud of your Macks. That's some nice B61's! And a decked out Super Liner. Cool trucks.
 

lancef

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Couple of old Kws and a English DAF.
 

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Stripeyjack

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Hey Squizzy, just looking at your pic on page 2 of the Mack Titan....is that running in Hampton's Colours as an RTA unit:confused:. My understanding is RTA owns Hamptons and Gulf owns RTA...is this the case? If so...that looks a pretty new outfit, is RTA adopting Hamptons colours abandoning their own and doing away with the Hamptons name as well? Be a shame if the RTA colours are phased out, somewhat similar to the old Buntine colours...
 

Dug Overburden

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Peterbilt in N.Z.

The peterbilt in post #4 is the 1st one I have ever seen in N.Z. Being from California we see Petes every day, did not know they were exported. How many are in N.Z., must really turn heads when you drive it!
 

Eric

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I love those trucks. I would love to go on a foriegn exchange with any New Zelander who would like to run my shovel, I'll gladly drive your truck!!
 

Stevo332

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lancef

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Glad you liked the Pete Dug Overburden.No one imports petes here so they are all brought in privatley.We would as a guess have 1-2 hundred in the country doing logs,tipping, transporting bulk liquards.Cople more pics for you peoples to gander at.:drinkup
 

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Dug Overburden

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Petes in N.Z.

I assume they are right hand drive? Is there a conversion made by pete for this? Peterbilts are such headturners it must be like in the USA most all drivers would rather drive a Pete than anything else.

Is that Commer a 2 stroke?

Dug
Glad you liked the Pete Dug Overburden.No one imports petes here so they are all brought in privatley.We would as a guess have 1-2 hundred in the country doing logs,tipping, transporting bulk liquards.Cople more pics for you peoples to gander at.:drinkup
 

Colorado Digger

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yeah , i don't think i could drive down there. shifting leftie, and everything else. i guess it would just take time like switching from cat to deere controls
 

kiwi

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the green peterbilt belongs to a Co down my way in new zealand they come into the quarry alot. they import the trucks & change them from left to right hand drive .the Co is made up mostly of petes & are all well looked after. cheers bluey.
 
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