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A NORTH VANCOUVER truck manufacturing company
has landed one of North America’s largest ever logging
truck sales deals to Southeast Asia.

Pacific Truck and Trailer Ltd.
(PTTL) will begin delivery of 100
fogging trucks and their trailers to
the Borneo-based Rimbunan Hijau
Sdn. Bhd. (RHSB) in December.

Company sales vice-president
Wayne Magee said Thursday the
deal is worth approximately $23
million.

“f’s outstanding,’’ Magee said,
“and is the result of two to three
years of effort. It will have a lot of
long-term berefits."”

EXPORTS

Magee, who established a PTTL.
parts department in Malaysia 2%
years ago, said his company will
increase its offshore exports as a
result of the sale.

The company opened a regional
office to develop its growing
Southeast Asia market three years
ago with federal assistance from
the Program for Export Murket
Development.

Pacific Truck, he said, currently
sells about 65 per cent Of its pro-
duction outside of Canada, and
apart from the recent sale to
Borneo has had success with sales
in Indonesia, the Philippines, New
Zealand and Papua-New Guinea.

BOOST SALES

Magee estimated the $23 million
sale will help boost offshore sales
to 70 per cent of the company's
production.

RHSB is a massive Southeast
Asian company with over 800
pieces of jungle logging equip-
ment, including 400 logging trucks.

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Until now, the company has
purchased trucks almost exclusive-
ly from Mercedes Benz and
Nissan.

The 100 PTTL trucks — 56
P510 and 44 PS12 right-hand drive
models — will be specially design-
ed to withstand hot, humid jungle
conditions.

PTTL celebrated its 40th an-
niversary in July. The company
currently employs about 100 peo-
ple and has been on the North
Shore for the last 28 years.

Magee said between 10 and 20
people will be hired by PTTL to
help the company fulfil the $23
million contract, which he expects
PTTL to complete within six to
eight months.

MALAYSIA

The trucks wil. be shipped to
Malaysia in containers and
reassembled there.

PTTL's Malaysian distributor
was able to bring the RHSB buyer
to the North Vancouver company's
40th anniversary celebrations
under the provincial government's
Incoming Buyers Program.

Dato Abu bin Haji Omar,
Malaysia's foreign minister, visited
PTTL during the recent Com-
monwealth Conference.

Magee said support from the
B.C. gevernment through the
buyers program helped clinch the