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Welcome everyone to our second Newsletter leading into our winter months. It’s great to see more new equipment coming into fleet such as the new Tri Semis and Quad semis in the last few weeks. This is being followed up with 8x4 Tankers complementing our Z and Chevron Fleet. With winter com...

As part of the One PFH communications drive, having performance conversations with drivers around key areas started being rolled out in April, says Matt Horan, Pacific Fuel Haul’s General Manager. “A key element of the One PFH initiative is to engage with front line staff,” explains Matt. ...

The latest development in our driver training programme is the potential use of a simulator such as those used to train pilots. With the ability to simulate a wide variety of weather conditions and situations, the simulator would be able to be moved around the country to our depots for traini...

By Tim Bowen simply paying attention, observing something wasn’t right, and alerting his supervisor has saved one of our customers thousands of dollars. In mid-April, Tim put in a driver assessment that the tank identification circles at the Spotswood Challenge outlet were faded and hard to i...

Moving as much as 3.9 million litres in a 24 hour period, our Auckland branch is one of the busiest depots in the country. Based at Wiri Oil Services Limited ( WOSL ) in South Auckland, the depot is a centralised operation for encompassing driving for the Z, Caltex brand and Farmlands tasks. ...

Richard Ossevoort has a dream job. Having driven trucks from a young age, he’s always seen tanker drivers as the top of the bunch. “I really enjoy watching motor sports – particularly rally events,” says Richard. “That’s because I appreciate the skill level these drivers have.” That aim ...

Congratulations to Chris Renwick who had an incident free month in April, went in the draw and won the $500 New World grocery voucher. Chris is based in Nelson and has been with us since 2008. His delivery rounds are to the Z Brand sites in the Nelson/Marlborough and West Coast areas. Also con...

There are a lot of challenges out there on your delivery runs that require your utmost concentration, assessment, and good judgement. Every day is different and there will always be something new to contend with whether it is on the road or at the delivery site. Operational Excellence is what...