21/04/2026
Since the Kenepuru Road reopened in late 2024 to stock trucks, our class 2 load pilot has been rather busy ensuring safe passage for both the trucks and the road users.
As many locals are aware, Prices Contracting's connection to the Kenepuru Sounds goes back to the 1960s and 1970s when Gary's father and grandfather (J E Price & Son) crushed gravel in different locations of the Kenepuru and Outer Sounds, spreading the crushed gravel to maintain the roads.
A common misconception we get often is "The stock trucks are ruining the road".
When we explain that the road was originally created because of the farming industry and safer stock passage, many don't believe us.
It wasn't until the mid 1900s that the road to the Kenepuru and Outer Sounds became more assessable for tourists and holiday homes.
Heavy vehicle road usage is not just isolated to stock trucks, many other trucks also use the road for various reasons including: building supplies, concrete trucks, watertank delivery trucks, fuel trucks, gravel trucks and machine transporters for building sites preparation, hiabs for heavy supplies, food trucks delivering to the resorts, furniture/moving trucks, the many contractors repairing the broken roads and on it goes.
I'm sure almost everyone has needed a truck of some sort at some stage.
So I decided that instead of talking about the 'birth of the Kenepuru Road', and the need for stock trucks, I have asked google too research it and do it for us....
