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A little trucking history to chew over

Well that went quickly, didn’t it! A whole year disappears like mud flung out the back of Nick Hall’s class 8 Toyota Hilux Prolite.

Speaking of which, we were talking about Nick’s national championship recently and it gave me a moment to reflect on the history of trucks winning the championship. How many have done so? Well, not many.

Start at the start, with a very special truck still sitting in a shed in Christchurch. Andrew Thomasen’s mighty yellow Toyota Tundra was designed on CAD at

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