Cover story: Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

By: Vivienne Haldane, Photography by: Vivienne Haldane, additional images supplied

Date: 26.04.2019

Tui Building flanked by the Best Isuzu (left) Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Central House Movers Contracting’s 2014 Caterpillar CT won People’s Choice Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

The 2018 9870 won the Best International Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Menefy Trucking Ltd won Best Fleet Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

The 2018 T610 SAR was awarded Best Kenworth Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Best Mack was awarded to this R685RST Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Jackson Enterprise’s mini truck kept the kids happy Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

McAuley’s Transport’s 2018 4864FXC took away the Best Western Star award

Stars of the Show: HES Earthmoving’s Kenworths Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Mainfreight’s 2006 Argosy was awarded Best Freightliner Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Kenworths were popular among the attendees Tui Truck Stop Show & Shine 2019

Tui Building flanked by the Best Isuzu (left)

Central House Movers Contracting’s 2014 Caterpillar CT won People’s Choice

The 2018 9870 won the Best International

Menefy Trucking Ltd won Best Fleet

The 2018 T610 SAR was awarded Best Kenworth

Best Mack was awarded to this R685RST

Jackson Enterprise’s mini truck kept the kids happy

McAuley’s Transport’s 2018 4864FXC took away the Best Western Star award

Stars of the Show: HES Earthmoving’s Kenworths

Mainfreight’s 2006 Argosy was awarded Best Freightliner

Kenworths were popular among the attendees

The Tui Brewery at Mangatainoka, near Pahiatua, was the place to be, for their annual truck show

Everything lined up on 31 March to make the Tui Truck Shop Show & Shine event a winner. It was a perfect autumn day and perhaps because it was held on a Sunday, it meant more people were free to attend and they certainly did.

This year saw the biggest turnout of both trucks and spectators, with 149 trucks registering for the event and the venue jam-packed all day.

Trucks came from as far afield as Pukekohe, as well as Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay, and $1200 was raised for the show’s regular beneficiary, the Mangatainoka Reserve Restoration project. Tui Brewery’s Truck show organiser, Rosie Rogers, was rapt with the response to this year’s show.

"We never know what’s coming and what the weather is going to do, but we feel quite blessed that so many truck owners and drivers want to come here," she says.

"We appreciate how much effort all the drivers and companies put into attending, taking time out of their busy schedules to prepare the trucks for the show as well as having them off the road for the day.

"The drivers and the companies make such a big effort and I’m blown away when a company like Menefy Trucking Ltd from Palmerston North turn up with almost their entire workforce. They come along every year and this year they brought 16 trucks. We also have a lot of local support with Tararua’s Beale Transport too."

The Star of the Show trophy—or Stars of the Show as it so happened this year—is a new category and was named in memory of Pahiatua truck driver Lincoln Johanson, who passed away in February 2018. It was awarded jointly to three stunning Kenworth trucks entered by HES Earthmoving of Takapau.