Hello and welcome to Pink Total Transport’s first monthly blog.
The intention is to have the blog online on our web page in the middle of each month (tried for the 1st of the month but proved too tricky with office end of the month stuff going on) starting mid-June 2021. We will look back on the previous month, telling you where we’ve been, what we’ve done and look forward to the coming month.
Also, the Pink Total phew !! for the month
Pink Total has 2 arms, buses and mobility, so both will feature each month. We will keep you informed about our vehicles, update you on Pink Total’s rebranding and highlight 1 of our wonderful clients and driver each month. Starting this month with:
The intention is to have the blog online on our web page in the middle of each month (tried for the 1st of the month but proved too tricky with office end of the month stuff going on) starting mid-June 2021. We will look back on the previous month, telling you where we’ve been, what we’ve done and look forward to the coming month.
Also, the Pink Total phew !! for the month
Pink Total has 2 arms, buses and mobility, so both will feature each month. We will keep you informed about our vehicles, update you on Pink Total’s rebranding and highlight 1 of our wonderful clients and driver each month. Starting this month with:
Drivers Janet and Bruce Raitt, owners of this busy little company.
  | Janet and Bruce have varied backgrounds: Bruce was a Fitter and Turner, then Union Organiser, then about turned into buying a dairy, then taking on the lease of Napier’s grand old building, the former Nurses Home, Hinepare, on Napier Hill. Photo shows Bruce in his happy place 😊 Janet was a Registered Nurse and also had a total switch from being one of the first nurses at Cranford Hospice to an MP’s secretary while assisting Bruce with Hinepare. While living there they bought Pink Total Transport from Robin Fryer, Bruce running the disability side and adding buses to take RSE residents to orchards, while Janet changed tack to look after Hinepare. Then suddenly new earthquake rules turned this vibrant building with 120 residents into the disgraceful sight still standing on Napier Hill. Everything came to a screaming halt, they moved into their rented out house, Janet got her P license and Pink Total Transport become their full time business which keeps on expanding and getting busier and busier. Janet in the Pink 😊 |
On the bus side our featured May client is St John’s College, Hasting
| “Had a great day with the First 15 rugby team and supporting adults from St John’s College, Hastings” says Bruce “The trip did not go as planned as signs of a slow leak in a tyre developed in Dannevirke, destination Feilding College. Plan B flew into action, officials on the bus knew someone who knew someone, and we were met in Woodville by Bridgestone Tyres. The boys changed into their gear and warmed up, Feilding College delayed the start, tyre was changed (it was a nail) and on we went hardly missing a beat. A great unexpected team building exercise and then a really good rugby game. We are taking this team away several times this season and are looking forward to watching their progress.” |  |
On the Mobility side our featured May client is Margaret Whitely from Taradale
 | Margaret gets to be the first featured as she has been with us the longest of all our wonderful clients. Margaret says “I live in Taradale and use an electric chair to get around but there are places which are too far or too difficult to navigate so Pink Total gets me there, often with a friend. I go with them to swimming at the Onekawa Pools twice a week, to various appointments, into Napier and to the Tabard Theatre. I have been with Pink Total Transport for 14 years and will never switch “ Photo shows Margaret after a swim at the Onekawa Pools on the hoist being lifted into one of our Toyota vans |
AND NOW, WHAT HAPPENED IN MAY??
ON THE BUS SIDE it was a great month. Early starts at packhouses had drivers up and away at 5am collecting seasonal workers for their 6am and 6.30am shifts. We also took a bus load of college students to work at a packhouse on Saturdays. Winter sports started, our buses took teams from various clubs and grades to CHB and Dannevirke on Saturdays and a school team to Fielding. We took a girls’ school team to hockey at Park Island every Monday night and a netball team to the Hastings Sports Park before most people were awake on Saturday mornings.
Our buses and vans were in and out of the EIT bringing school students from Havelock North, Hastings, Flaxmere, Hastings and Napier to the Trades Academy on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Some RSE workers were still in New Zealand and we took a small group from Vanuatu up to Auckland to join a repatriation flight home.
There was a school trip to the Stortford Lodge Sale Yards, a great group to On Yer Bike, a fun company day out to OutFoxed, pickups from the airport, Clifton Café, and we also took a student miles out in the country for work experience every Friday.
A busy, interesting and varied 4 weeks.
ON THE MOBILITY SIDE our wee team has new bright pink T shirts. Worn with black pants the effect is standout smart casual, exactly what we were looking for.
The 2 vans and Caddy are everywhere in Napier and frequently in Havelock North and Hastings.
Our clients range from spritely independent to totally dependent. Able to leap in and out of the vehicles to needing a walker or a wheelchair. And aged from teenagers to well into their nineties.
In May we took clients to various churches, The Mission, EIT, Onekawa and Clive Pools, MENZ Shed, gym, 10 pin bowling, coffee and lunch at various cafes, hairdressers, movies, a variety of medical appointments, shopping, Enliven, Rotary, Senior Cits, Napier RSA, outings from rest homes, Hawkes Bay Hospital, airport, opticians …..
The Pink Total PHEW !! for the month is : the Wait Zone at Napier Airport. It’s brilliant!! As we’re not a taxi we cannot use the taxi carparks and before the alterations had to hover around Arrivals and Departures or go and wait in the carpark and feed the meter.
Now we simply sit in the Wait Zone, wait for the client or carer to text they are leaving Arrivals, coast around to the carpark, collect ticket, collect client and out before the free period runs out. So easy.
And a heads up for June ……. More of the same 😊 excellent 😊
Our buses and vans were in and out of the EIT bringing school students from Havelock North, Hastings, Flaxmere, Hastings and Napier to the Trades Academy on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Some RSE workers were still in New Zealand and we took a small group from Vanuatu up to Auckland to join a repatriation flight home.
There was a school trip to the Stortford Lodge Sale Yards, a great group to On Yer Bike, a fun company day out to OutFoxed, pickups from the airport, Clifton Café, and we also took a student miles out in the country for work experience every Friday.
A busy, interesting and varied 4 weeks.
ON THE MOBILITY SIDE our wee team has new bright pink T shirts. Worn with black pants the effect is standout smart casual, exactly what we were looking for.
The 2 vans and Caddy are everywhere in Napier and frequently in Havelock North and Hastings.
Our clients range from spritely independent to totally dependent. Able to leap in and out of the vehicles to needing a walker or a wheelchair. And aged from teenagers to well into their nineties.
In May we took clients to various churches, The Mission, EIT, Onekawa and Clive Pools, MENZ Shed, gym, 10 pin bowling, coffee and lunch at various cafes, hairdressers, movies, a variety of medical appointments, shopping, Enliven, Rotary, Senior Cits, Napier RSA, outings from rest homes, Hawkes Bay Hospital, airport, opticians …..
The Pink Total PHEW !! for the month is : the Wait Zone at Napier Airport. It’s brilliant!! As we’re not a taxi we cannot use the taxi carparks and before the alterations had to hover around Arrivals and Departures or go and wait in the carpark and feed the meter.
Now we simply sit in the Wait Zone, wait for the client or carer to text they are leaving Arrivals, coast around to the carpark, collect ticket, collect client and out before the free period runs out. So easy.
And a heads up for June ……. More of the same 😊 excellent 😊
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