Uhlenberg Haulage Ltd

29/08/2026

29/08/2026

07/08/2026

To our followers, we may seem to be often celebrating long service by many of our staff. However, we feel that this is a good price to pay for having a steady and dedicated team. We are often audited by our clients and customers and one of the many areas where Uhlenberg Haulage excel, is being able to demonstrate a low staff turnover, meaning that we consistently have a team that carry a lot of experience in the industry. We have celebrated many staff joining the “20 plus years of service” mark over the years, with the most recent being Jimmy, which was reported on recently. The UHL directors are all family members, with what is really a lifetime of service, as the second generation were all born into the industry and all have “officially” worked in UHL for over thirty years. We kept it quiet that we had noticed that Chris Uhlenberg had clocked up 40 years in the company until our recent gathering of friends and associates, and it was good to see Chris a little shocked that we noticed this milestone. Chris officially started driving for Uhlenberg Haulage on February the 5th 1986, after having worked at the Toko sawmill for a very short time, followed by a stint of a few years operating machinery at the York Road Quarry and an overseas experience for a number of months. Starting on a tip truck, before doing the hard yards in almost every area of UHL, Chris did a large amount of North Island LPG cartage in a variety of trucks over a number of years, before eventually coming back to look after the local work and despatch in the later 1990’s. Nowadays, when not assisting the management team and organising much of the bulk fleet, Chris still operates UHL 7 – “Makin Tracks” a Peterbilt 357 that he has operated since it was added new to the fleet in 1996. Yes - that’s right, Chris has operated the same truck for 30 years. In that time, working mostly on local roading and rural airstrip work, he and number 7 have worn out a set of bins and a trailer, and countless consumables, with the majority of his work being in the Eastern Taranaki hill country, where due to the rugged conditions, tyres and moving parts have an extremely short life expectancy. The winter months see Chris working mostly around the depot, sharing his knowledge and help with the entire team. He probably won’t be too happy about this post and it probably goes against the grain of the normal “just quietly keep on trucking”, but it had to be recognised, as this is an impressive milestone in many ways.

15/07/2026

We had the pleasure of hosting some old staff along with many of the existing crew and some old associates last Saturday to commemorate our 60 years in business. John Baillie hosted the day and shared some great parts of our history, focusing on all of the people who have helped to mould Uhlenberg Haulage into what it is today. Each of the Uhlenberg family Directors spoke to the attendees with an insight into how they have each contributed to the show so far. Thanks, must also go to Henry, Wayne, JR and the others who shared stories and for adding just the right amount of humour to their presentations. It was great to see some of the early employees and their spouses enjoying a catch up. The day was also a timely opportunity to mark 20 years of service by Jimmy Greenough and 40 years of service from Chris Uhlenberg. The despatch team managed to get every North Island based truck into the depot for a few hours which made for great photo opportunity. Will, Liam and Ron were on camera duties, Sally nailed the fantastic cake which was one of the early LPG tankers from the 70’s. A huge thanks to the staff that put a heap of time into making this event what it was, also to the workshop crew, Terry and all of the other helpers.

29/05/2026

Jimmy has cracked twenty years of service to Uhlenberg Haulage today, the first ten of which he completed at the wheel - delivering LPG around the country, before taking over the LPG managers role. From the outside looking in – it would be easy to think that this job is despatching and scheduling deliveries from the far North of NZ to Bluff in the deep south, but that’s only part of it. There is much more to Jimmys role than despatch, he manages product from early in the NZ LPG supply chain through until it gets pumped into your 45 or 9 kg cylinder, Jimmy also looks after over half of our drivers and is involved in tanker maintenance and customer focus with our LPG clients. To be honest it is a role that takes a special person to get through the challenges involved without getting flustered, and Jimmy does this well -day after day (and night after night too). Thanks Jimmy, we salute you. The UHL team have planned a little celebration later on in the month- when we can get you away from the phone. Well done mate.

30/04/2026

We are chasing historic photos or memorabilia relating to our business and fleet from the early days. Do you have anything, or know someone that may have photos or movies that we can copy please? We don’t require anything from the 90’s onwards, we already have a lot of the Peterbilt or modern Kenworth - Mack - Western Star era. We are really chasing the 60’s 70’s and 80s, old inters, early Kenworth’s, Eltham Transport D series Fords, bulk spreaders etc. As well as trucks, we are keen to see anything relating to our people, staff etc as well. Let us know what you have, send to [email protected] or call 06 7648205. We will sort copying and the return of whatever you can supply. The best exhibit will receive a prize from the team at UHL. Thanks

10/04/2026

We don’t plan to have new trucks doing their maiden voyage on weekends, but it is the way that it has worked out with the last few units, probably indicating how hard our team work to make things happen. A few Saturdays ago, Mark made his first trip in UHL48. Marks new mount is our preferred - go to line haul model, a Kenworth T610, which under his guidance will see all of the North Island throughout its days delivering bulk LPG to our client’s depots. Named “Stranger to Town” recognising Marks outback heritage and the fact that he doesn’t really do cities and big gatherings, in fact - Mark and his partner prefer the country life and run a rural operation and a remarkable property when he is not pedalling a green machine around the country. We almost managed to get a smile out of Mark when we ambushed him with a camera, to which he replied “why do you need a photo? hurry up, I’ve got work to do!” Typical of Marks work ethic - getting it done with no fuss or drama. Enjoy your days and nights on the road in 48 Mark, we appreciate your efforts. Footnote: We are slow reporting this, today UHL48 is in for its 6000km first service - demonstrating that there is no idle time with our LPG delivery guys. And thanks to the UHL workshop team for yet again presenting a unit with perfection.