| 87 Now with five different divisions including bulk, silos, livestock, concrete, and spreading, Sandfords has been providing a quality transport service since 1928. RURAL SERVICES » Sandfords Rural Carriers As a proud partner of Sandfords Rural Carriers, Carter’s Tyre Service Hawera keeps the transport irmmoving, providing everything to do with tyres and wheels 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Carter’s Tyre Service area account manager LanceMakene says Carters and Sandfords have a relationship based on trust, which has been built up over the past two decades of partnering together. “They trust us to get the job done and keep their business running 24/7,” Lance says. “They are a big business and it takes a lot of resources and e ort to look after them, but when you’re dealing with people like Phil and TomSandford, it makes it a lot easier.” Reciprocally, Carters provides key people who understand the unique requirements of the rural transport industry at leet service level and also at management level to support the leet service team in their service of customers. “The transport industry is one of the hardest industries to be in, because it just never stops,” Lance says. “When you’re asleep it’s still going, and our leet service teamhas to jump out of bed at 2am and rush out to change a truck tyre, then get back up at 7am and do it again. Their e ort and their experience keep our partnerships successful.” Sandfords Rural Carriers is a partner to be proud of. Working out of the tiny town of Auroa in Southern Taranaki, Sandfords is community focused and charitable in its Keeping Sandfords on the road support of the home base it has had for 96 years, since 1928. As a team, Carters and Sandfords are moving forward together. Like Sandfords, Carters has been a family owned business up until 2 years ago, and remains New Zealand operated and still conducts its business the Kiwi way. Carters punches above its weight in the tyre industry, going up against the big international companies and coming out on top. Carters’ highly trained technicians can provide the best performing leet tyres for di erent usage conditions. Carters’ Tread True management systemprovides predictive models for estimating timeframes around tyre wear, maintenance, and replacement, for a cradle to grave solution on every single tyre in the leet. Retreads are a large part of Carters work and with two retread plants, one in each island, the company does the lion’s share of retreading across the country. “Retreading really helps us and our clients to achieve our sustainability goals,” Lance says. “We are poised to join the Government’s Tyrewise recycling scheme as soon as it’s launched, and in the meantime we use only forward thinking contractors with a proven track record to dispose of our tyres.” Carters values its partnership with Sandfords and is vested inmoving alongside a great Taranaki business.
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