A request from Renee…

I would like to see house truckers represented in the photo book. I have just launched this photo competition and I thought your work would be a good fit.

Call me Kiwi National Photography Competition,
Theme: Photos of people that shows our uniqueness as New Zealanders. It’s aim is to promote up and coming New Zealand photographers. It’s open to amateur and professional photographers alike.

Click on the link below for details…

http://www.facebook.com/CallMeKiwiPhotoCompetitionBook

Cheers, Renee

Hi All,

I’m looking for a Bedford style bus for a film shoot in Auckland – if anyone’s interested in hiring their bus out for the day can you please call me.

Bali 021 606 600

Wondering if you can help me. I’m looking to contact any travellers in NZ regarding a TV show I’m working on. If anyone on this site would like more information please contact me rachel.choy@eyeworksnz.com or 021 051 3594.

Thanks!
Rachel

Have moved the HTNZ site off the old server and is now on a nice shiny new one. Let me know if you have any problems with loading time because I have to admit, I am not sure if it is my ISP or not, but sometimes the site can take a little while to load. Would be interested to hear if it is just me and should consider moving ISP, or if it is a server related problem issue I need to get looked at.

Thanks

A short article on Stuff about the Ogilvies decision to quit the mainstream and set out on the road with the Gypsy Fair. Not a lot of meat to the article, but good to see it out there. Good on them.

I just found out that the gubbmint is pushing through a bill that is going to increase road user charges which will adversely affect a large number of motorhome owners. Thanks Fran for highlighting the issue.

In the past, your RUC’s were based on a per tonne classification. Now they are proposing to make it 5 tonne increments, meaning your 5.5 tonne housebus is going to be charged for 10 tonnes making it grossly unfair for a lot of people.

NZMCA have a pre-written letter that you can send to the PM, your  MoP (Member of Parliament) and Mr Brownlee, the Minister of Transport to express your opposition to this money grab.

I’m popping mine in the mail on Monday because all I see this bill being is just another way to strangle more life out of an already over regulated pastime and way of life.

Have mobilised the HTNZ site. The next time you visit the site on your mobile, you will get a crisp clean, easy to use interface. Still playing around with it and if you find yourself looking at a mobile view when not actually on a mobile, use the link at the foot of the page to switch to the normal desktop view.

Also added a few new pictures to the housetruck and housebuses gallery.

Do me a favour? If you know about any of the trucks or buses displayed on this site, send me some history on it will ya? Not necessarily its COF history, but more along human story perspective, about an experience with said vehicle. It’s all good looking at the pics, but it would be way cooler to have a little bit of a story behind them as well.

A while back, I posted a pic of a Ledge Wagon that Pete built. He sold it before I could get some photos and so had to track the buyer down and ask nicely if I could grab some pics.

He was very obliging and here is the result. I had a mate take the photo of the caravan on the guys lawn and Photoshop it to a background. I then had it framed and presented to Pete for Christmas.

He was verily impressed.

Site got a bit stagnant there for a while and I let the domain registration lapse as well for a short period meaning the site was offline temporarily before I was shaken to my senses by a few people. What with work, work and other social committments, finding time to do anything fun is like finding the pot at the end of the rainbow. But hey, who isn’t busy right? I’ll stop moaning now

Going to give the registrations process another go as I didn’t really look hard enough for a solution for stopping the spammers from registering even with captcha. Lets see how it goes. Of course, current members are more than welcome to write articles, posts, comment in the forums etc.

Got a shite load more pics to upload as well…

Drive safe