The August 2016 issue of DIESELtalk is now available for download.
This month DIESELtalk magazine takes a road trip to Canterbury and Manawatu, visiting truck dealerships, and trailer manufacturers, to get their take on industry developments.
Mainfreight Group’s managing director Don Braid is interviewed for our lead story, and his comments elicited a response from Road Transport Forum ceo Ken Shirley.
NZ Bus chief executive Zane Fulljames explains why he will never buy another new diesel bus, and new Cable Price Scania national sales executive Mike Davidson tells us how a unique marketing offer has given the Swedish truck brand greater traction in a busy sector.
In TestTalk, we try out an American Beauty in the form of a RAM Laramie 2500 4×4 truck and come back down to earth in the evolutionary Nissan Navara NP300 ST-X 4×4.
Plus there is the usual round up of opinions, statistics, and other useful industry-relating reading material.
In this issue:
- Reducing congestion will grow economy: Braid
- Turners developing new Auckland site
- Providing certainty of cost to operators
- “I’ll never buy another diesel bus.”
- Understanding customer’s needs drives success
- Network is the key to success
- Investment pays dividends for truck dealership
- A quarter century of continual development
- Palmerston North base but nationally focussed
- One stop transport parts shop
- Expanding to meet the market
- From humble beginnings to number one
- Paperless policing – what you need to know
- What do women want?
- Seven ways to make your workplace safer
- Isuzu Trucks breaks pre-GFC record
- Numbers show used truck market slowing
- American beauty: RAM 2500 Laramie 4×4
- Evolutionary not revolutionary: Nissan Navara ST-X 4×4
