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Welcome to our August newsletter everyone. We have had some atrocious weather of late but I’m really happy how we’ve collectively been monitoring it to make sure all our drivers travelled safely. Thanks to those drivers in letting their team know the road conditions when we found it diffic...

Christchurch based PFH driver Silvia Parra Ramirez arrived at a site to make a delivery and noticed there was some form of graffiti on the tank and on closer looking noticed it said “do not refill”. Silvia had no instructions on her trip sheet to say not to fill so decided to ask a person nearby...

All Black legend “Buck” Wayne Shelford likened a cold muscle to be like a piece of chewing gum – you stop chewing and the gum goes hard and brittle. Regular stretching is the key to keeping yourself in good shape and reduces the risk of muscle damage and back complaints.    So when you’ve ...

We received this great feedback about Lindsay Knightbridge  -   a Contact Energy driver based in New Plymouth . It just shows how the public are keenly aware of how our driving affects their driving experience. "Please thank the Driver of your tanker Reg # Q997H that I followed on Monday 1...

Originally built in 1956, when it comes to the proud history of the Mount Maunganui depot few have got more stories than Dennis Ford – an office staff member who has been working at the site since 1964! In his time Dennis has seen huge changes. Back then there was just four staff who were mul...

Rachael is one of the most important people in the New Plymouth office – as an office administrator she looks after the payroll for the more than 40 drivers on the Caltex contract. Nailing that is very important – and so is her after hour’s passion as a qualified nail technician giving all th...

When it comes to the value of following systems and procedures, Farmlands’ driver Richard Kuklinski puts it simply – “they’re there to keep us safe in our work environment so we go home to our families at the end of each shift”. "Procedures are put there to take the guesswork out of our jobs ...

Congratulations to Paul Hurworth who had an incident free month in June and so went in the draw for the $500 New World grocery voucher. Paul is based in Napier driving for the Farmlands’ contract.