New Zealand - Mill Trucks - Te Rimu Mill - 1950s The value of all forestry exports (logs, chips, sawn timber, panels and paper products) - $NZ 3.62 billion for the year ended 31 March 2006 - $NZ 5 billion in 2018 - Australia accounts for just over 25% of export value, mostly paper products, followed by Japan, South Korea, China and the United States. - In 2018, wood products were New Zealand's third-biggest export - Forestry accounted for approximately 3% of national GDP - Directly employing 20,000 people (Reference: Wikipedia) A truck or lorry - A motor vehicle designed to transport cargo - Trucks vary greatly in size, power, and configuration - Smaller varieties may be mechanically similar to some automobiles. - Commercial trucks can be very large and powerful and may be configured to be mounted with specialized equipment, such as in the case of refuse trucks, fire trucks, concrete mixers, and suction excavators. - In American English, a commercial vehicle without a trailer or other articulation is formally a "straight truck" while one designed specifically to pull a trailer is not a truck but a "tractor". - Modern trucks are largely powered by diesel engines, although small- to medium-size trucks with gasoline engines exist in the US, Canada, and Mexico. - In the European Union, vehicles with a gross combination mass of up to 3.5 t (7,700 lb) are known as light commercial vehicles, and those over as large goods vehicles. (Reference: Wikipedia) Transport in New Zealand - In 2015, 3.018 million were light passenger vehicles, 507,000 were light commercial vehicles, 137,000 were heavy trucks, 10,000 were buses and 160,000 were motorcycles and mopeds. - The mean age of a New Zealand car (as of end of 2015) was 14.2 years, with trucks at 17.6 years. - 38% of light vehicles in 2017 were 15 years +, 171,000 being deregistered, but 334,000 added. (Reference: Wikipedia) ------------------------- Image source: Mill Trucks 1950s b Te Rimu Mill by Peter Henson by Peter Henson Tauranga City Libraries https://paekoroki.tauranga.govt.nz/nodes/view/10373