March 2019
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PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
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Story & photos: Dean Evans
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Vehicle transport specialist Carr & Haslam’s new 10-car transporter trailer wasn’t modified to suit the truck – the truck was modified to suit ‘it’!
HREE YEARS IN THE MAKING,
but this is the first one on the new Mercedes-
desire to driving on the road, the first hurdle
Carr & Haslam recently registered the
Benz Arocs platform.”
was when Chris was first asked by Mercedes
first of two new Jackson Enterprise
The Mercedes-Benz Arocs started arriving in
how many he wanted? “Two…” he replied.
trucks and trailers for its vehicle transport
NZ a couple of years ago, but with the idea to
“Two-hundred or two-thousand?” was the
operations. And aside from its corporate yellow
use the latest model, Chris had an issue that
polite, German response. The actual order for
colour, though its style may look somewhat
measurements weren’t ideal for his company’s
“just two” may have raised a few German
conventional, it’s the details that count and
needs.
eyebrows initially, but the small numbers didn’t deter either side from setting about making it
have made another step forward not just with
“With car transporters, you need all the
build partners Jackson and BPW, but also the
height you can get so the chassis needs to be
Mercedes-Benz factory. Yep, the German one!
as low as possible. We had to change the new
“We got there in the end,” adds Chris,
“We’ve got a long-term relationship with
Arocs to suit us, more to the point,” says Chris,
“but I don’t think we would have if a number
Mercedes,” explains Carr & Haslam’s Director,
who basically approached Mercedes with his
of things hadn’t happened. Like the Australian
Chris Carr. “They’ve stood by us and we’ve
requirements: “The Arocs is basically an eight-
Performance Based Standards was reviewed
had a really good relationship.” The plan arose
wheeler construction truck in Germany, and
to cope with the increased demand for eight-
like many local projects do: the need for a
we wanted an eight-wheel road truck. We
wheel trucks that allowed them into the market
specialised vehicle arose, and a Kiwi company
needed a very low chassis, road-going Arocs -
there. Plus the fact that if Mercedes were able
had to be the pioneer and devise a plan for
which is quite different to other eight-wheelers
to get low height units into NZ, then that also
the specific needs, rules and requirements
Arocs that we run for freight, for example; so
opened up different parts of the market. So it
covering a range of areas.
we worked a long time with Mercedes to be
all allowed Mercedes to contemplate a market
able to get the chassis height down to where
section that it hadn’t previously thought of.
“This unit went on the road in late 2018 - Truck 247 we call it - a 10-car transporter,” explains Chris. “We’ve built 10-car units before
we wanted to be competitive.” Over a process that took three years from
happen.
“That was a very long process that involved a lot of engineering work, and getting concepts
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CHILL-SEE
Story: Dean Evans
Q
UALITY WILL ALWAYS RISE TO
Fruehauf NZ Ltd, the Schmitz Cargobull is the
an equally solid reputation that’s establishing a
the top, and while the Schmitz
popular and dominant choice of unit in Europe,
market share in New Zealand.
Cargobull deep freeze trailer may be
where it virtually dominates its competitors
Obviously with different climates in
relatively new on the NZ market, it is already
with 80 percent of its home German market,
NZ, and a near-40 degree span between
making a big impression after less than two
50 percent of the European market, and 90
seasons
years imported and on sale as it surely but
percent of trailers using the technology. With
temperatures put units under varied and
steadily gains profile and popularity.
Schmitz producing almost 60,000 trailers a
testing conditions, but this Euro import has
year, it’s a well-established brandname, and
proven well up to the task, largely down to
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and
islands,
our
roads
and
EKER
its style of manufacture and insulation.
Tauranga’s Brett Marsh Transport went shopping for a new hard-sider fridge trailer… and came away with two, while proving to Fruehauf NZ that if you build it, they will come.
or egress – over the life of the trailer, and all but
“The partnership with Halls has been
Ferroplast is the product name, and it’s
eliminates any sweating on the outside; the
really good,” says Fruehauf Sales Account
basically a foam-type insulator with both inner
thermal conductivity of the material and how
Manager Craig van der Nagel. “Halls is our
and outer steel skins, each just half-a-millimetre
easily heat passes across is also class-leading.
key customer of Cargobull… we’ve got a
thick, that are pvc coated and bonded to the
With Schmitz producing around 55,000
few units in TR Group now as well which has
core. Light, strong, durable, impervious to
trailers a year, that’s a solid share of its home
opened up a bit more exposure to some more
water and resistant to pull-transfusion, the
market, and now the Cargobull is starting to
customers. We’ve since had a customer come
nature of the design eliminates water ingress –
make a name for itself locally, too.
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Light, L a & Fast Story: Dean Evans
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L arge When Napier’s Sandfords Transport needed a specialised new big alloy bin, it turned to the half-century specialist, Transport Trailers for the answer.
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