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is Kenworth T900 Legend logger has joined the Satherley Logging operation in Napier, with Shane (Gun) McFarlane the lucky man behind the wheel. e 6x4 has a 600hp Cummins X15 engine, an 18-speed Roadranger manual gearbox and RT46-160 di s, plus many extras including an “old- school” sunvisor and round indicator lights on the guards...and Legend features like quarter-light doors, full leather seats, heritage instrument gauges, a at dash, chrome steering wheel, woodgrain gear knob and dash, seven-inch exhaust stacks, chrome air cleaner bowls and a seven-bar grille. It has Kraft logging gear and tows a matching four-axle trailer.
A class quarter
THE NEW HEAVY TRUCK MARKET IN
March was about 4% shy of the alltime best sales
figures for the month – just 20 trucks short of the 484 registered in March last year.
But the 464 registrations in the overall truck market (all trucks over 4.5-tonne GVM) was enough to push sales out to 1185 for the rst three months of the year – thus creating a new rst quarter record (8% up on 2014’s previous best Q1 total).
e trailer market made it a double – its best-ever March (with 161 registrations beating March last year by 25%) and that contributing to a Q1 total of 384 sales – 10% up on the previous mark of 350, set in 2015...and 16% up on March last year. e March trailer rego total also rated as the third-highest ever...for any month (just behind November 2015’s 166 and October 2014’s 167).
In the heavy truck market, Fuso rebounded from its stumble
in February (when it registered just 48 trucks, compared to market leader Isuzu’s 106) by registering 100 units – just three less than Isuzu.
at returned Fuso to second place (up from third) in the year-to-date standings, with 203 registrations compared to Isuzu’s 258 and third-ranked Hino’s 169.
DAF, with 40 March registrations, moved up from fth to fourth YTD, with 88 sales. Next, with 71 YTD, was Volvo, which jumped up from ninth with 39 March regos.
Kenworth (68/16) and Mercedes-Benz (62/16) lost two places and one place respectively in the 2018 rankings, while Iveco (55/20) held onto eighth place, UD (55/16) lost a spot and Scania (32/11) held 10th. Behind them came MAN (22/7), which went ahead of Mack (21/6), Freightliner (18/5) holding 13th, Foton (14/8), Fiat (11/3) and International (9/6).
In the 3.5-4.5t maximum GVM crossover segment, Fiat (78/27) continued to easily outperform the rest, with
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