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16 NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND Driver’s Diligence Avoids Collision A prompt and correct reaction from one of our female Tranz Metro Train Drivers recently averted a potential major tragedy in Petone (Wellington), explains Toll NZ Corporate Affairs General Manager Sue Foley. “The train's driver had only been on the job for a year, but did everything right after seeing a truck go over a bridge and land on the rail network in front of her,” says Sue. “There were 41 passengers on the train, which came to rest just 7.2 metres from where the truck landed. National HR Award Win Toll NZ Human Resources (HR) Team has been recognised with the national 2006 HRINZ HR Initiative of the Year Award. Toll NZ's entry to the awards, which recognises HR teams who introduce innovative practices, focused on the Recruitment Centre and bringing recruitment in-house through supporting services such as electronic vacancy management and the Advisory Centre. The award judges were impressed with the link forged between HR strategy, the business and its culture. They also commended how the services offered by the Recruitment Centre were regularly reviewed and amended to ensure they continually meet the business’ requirements. Toll NZ Human Resources General Manager Margaret Gracie said: “I am delighted that our HR Team has been recognised at such a TranzAlpine Sets 2 New Records A record single week's carriage of over 7,000 passengers and record single day's return carriage of over 1,100 passengers has recently been achieved by the TranzAlpine train service between Christchurch and Greymouth. Due to celebrate its 20th anniversary this November, the service now carries over “Fortunately the train had made a recent stop at Petone so was not going at full speed when the incident occurred.” Emergency crew at the scene. 200,000 passengers a year on what is considered one of New Zealand's iconic tourism experiences. Tranz Scenic South Island Manager Tony McManus says staff are delighted at the support being shown to the service.“But, it is not surprising when you look at the stunning scenery it transverses as it makes its way through the Southern Alps to the West Coast,” he says. Toll NZ assumed control of Tranz Scenic over three years ago and has since implemented a carriage refurbishment program and increased the marketing of all services. Higher point of view shot of the scene. The shaken truck driver escaped the accident unharmed. high level and want to acknowledge all the work our staff have put into making the recruitment centre the success that it is.” Having earlier won the regional HR award, Toll NZ's national award win was achieved ahead of close competition from the Wellington City Council and Canterbury University. A good contingent of Toll NZ staff were on hand to see HR win a National Award recently. Left to right: John Nobilo – Interislander; Sarah Caunter – Corporate; Margaret Gracie – GM HR, Toll NZ; Julie Robertson – Interislander; Lynn Osbourne – Hillside Engineering, Rowena Foster – Toll Recruitment; Seamus O'Sullivan – GGM Interislander; Nicole Rosie – GM Risk and Strategy; Steve Brittenden – Woburn Training centre; Julie Maude – Toll Rail; Craig Nelson – Toll Rail; Angela Aprea – Corporate HR; Natalie Thompson – Passenger Services; Maree Cooper – Passenger Services; Sue Foley – GM Corporate Affairs; Christina Desbonnets – Toll Tranzlink; Ross Hayward – GM Passenger Services and Ruth Ingram – Corporate. TranzAlpine travelling through some magical scenery on its way to Christchurch.
HEADING NEW ZEALAND 17 Tranzlink Handles Marlborough Grape Crop Harvesting of the Marlborough grape crop in the South Island in New Zealand is under way, with Toll Tranzlink Blenheim deploying 10 truck and trailer units and 25 drivers to transport this season's produce to the wineries for processing. Running for about six weeks, this intense 24/7 operation is overseen by Toll Tranzlink Blenheim Branch Operations Supervisor Lee Thorpe with the assistance of Dennis Brennan. It will result in about 25,000 tonnes of grapes being transported on behalf of the Delegats, Nobilos and Cloudy Bay wineries. “We have a great team of high-calibre drivers this year, with many who have returned from last year's harvest,” says Lee.“This has made my job a lot easier." This year also saw Lee and his team move a significant volume of grapes from Hawkes Bay to Blenheim on behalf of Delegats Winery. Once made into wine at Hawkes Bay, the produce is then transported by Toll Tranzlink as a bulk liquid to Auckland for bottling throughout the year. Toll Tranzlink Operations Supervisor Lee Thorpe in front of the truck. Casual Driver Reon Kitto supervising the loading. Loading the grapes into the truck. Hillside Tackles Ballast Wagon Project The new 40 YJ ballast wagons. A technically challenging project to complete 40 YJ ballast wagons for Ontrack, under considerable time constraint has recently been successfully completed by Hillside Workshops in Dunedin in New Zealand. Hillside Workshops Project Supervisor Paul Beattie said that having completed work on the wagon prototype in July last year, the division has managed to average the build of two wagons a week since. “The hydraulic, electronics and complexity of the wagon is a little bit more than we’d normally deal with in a freight unit, and the timing to build them in was quite tight as well,” said Paul. The YJ wagons have replaced previous four-wheeler units, which could only run on trains travelling at about 50kph and had less capacity. These are on a high-speed freight bogie, which enables Ontrack to run them with normal trains. “The design was from Toll Rail Professional Services <strong>Group</strong> in Wellington, loosely based around the hopper wagons that we have manufactured for coal,” said Paul. “We got the door mechanism from Gemco Rail in Perth. It is a hydraulic remote controlled system that they are using in Australia.” Hillside Workshops also enjoyed the interaction of Ontrack and its engineers throughout the design and construction process. “We talked with them to get the right mix of what was required for their guys on the ground.” “There was some up-front design work from them, and then we had the prototype out for their guys to run with and check.They came back with a few modifications to that, which was good,” said Paul. NEW ZEALAND
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