Supporting our locals

July 2025

Empowering our Tamariki

Empowering children in Hawke’s Bay through dynamic experiences that promote physical activity, wellbeing, and lifelong character development are some of the outcomes of a Tranzit Coachlines sponsorship with the Hawke’s Bay Community Fitness Centre Trust (HBCFCT).

Our support of the Education Outside the Classroom Programme called Poipoia te Kākano (PK Programme) that blends fun with purpose, equips children with skills, attitudes, and confidence they need to thrive both inside and outside the classroom.

In the last six months, 10 different schools from Napier, Hastings and Central Hawke’s Bay participate in the programme, enabling the delivery of over 500 individual lessons to students leading Chloe Macaulay, Education & Community Outreach Lead for HBCFCT, to be full of praise for the partnership with Tranzit. 

 “Without the support of local businesses like Tranzit, we would not be able to offer such unique programmes to schools throughout Hawke’s Bay.  Seeing our tamariki flourish by the opportunities we can provide them gives us a real sense of purpose, and our goal is to provide this to as many schools as possible in our region”.

June 2025

TV1 Good sorts – our driver Lee

This is the heartwarming story of our Tranzit Coachlines Hawke’s Bay school bus driver Lee, whose idea to provide shelter for students from Esk Valley became reality, thanks to support from Mitre 10 MEGA and students from EIT. Following Cyclone Gabrielle, a farm driveway, located north of Napier, became the new pick-up point for students travelling to Eskdale School – however there was no shelter for them.

That soon changed when Lee reached out to Mitre 10 MEGA to donate materials to help build a shelter as well as to EIT, whose trade students helped build it as part of their studies. The shelter was then painted, then delivered to the site with an official opening held. Now it is used regularly by the students when they wait for Lee to pick them up each morning. Lee’s good deed received further attention when he was nominated as a “Good Sorts” for the TV1 news segment with one student describing him as the “best bus driver in the whole entire universe!” Nice work Lee!

May 2025

Bringing smiles to faces

Bringing smiles to the faces of our passengers is important, but now and then our team go the extra mile and meet with teachers and pre-schoolers from local kindergartens and give them opportunities to take a ride in the bus. For many, it is there first time ever riding in a bus so it can become a very special moment for them.

For the last few years, our Wairarapa team has visited kindergarten children from Good Beginning day care to see the “big buses” up close, talk to our drivers and go for a ride around the block.

Earlier in May, we had a group of pre-schoolers visit the team at our depot. It was a great outing for them and great to see smiles ono their faces.

April 2025

Career Bus Tour

Our Tranzit Group head office team laid out the welcome mat to host a group of Masterton residents, including Indonesians and members of our former refugee community, as part of a special visit organised by the Ministry of Social Development, Masterton District Council – Welcoming Communities, and New Zealand Red Cross.

The visit was part of a day tour that took the group to visit some of Masterton’s businesses so they could see what happens behind the scenes and meet the people that work there. It was a valuable chance for them to connect and learn more about the community they are now living in.

At Tranzit, the group was welcomed onsite and given an informal presentation that traced the company’s history; highlighting where we operate throughout New Zealand in the bus, coach, tourism and car rental sectors and to highlight potential employment opportunities.

The visitors were also taken through the Tranzit Group workshop where they could see a variety of fleet as well as have the opportunity to meet our mechanics, one of whom started with us straight from school as an apprentice. They were able to highlight the different career pathways there are also available within the workshop as well as highlight Tranzit’s national presence.

Tranzit also supported the day by providing in-kind travel for the recipients.

February 2025

Transporting our Taranaki community

The Te Matatini biennial Festival is the largest kapa haka festival in the world, being a celebration of traditional Māori performing arts excellence.

Held this year in New Plymouth, our Tranzit Coachlines Taranaki team scaled up to provide transport services to the event held at Pukekura Park’s Bowl of Brooklands.

This involved doing more than seven charters and daily shuttle buses for performers as well as providing services to and from the event for members of the public in our fleet or urban buses. The feedback our driving team received from passengers was overwhelmingly positive with plenty of ‘thanks driver” comments and conversely they enjoyed listening to many teams warming up in the bus.

This year, Te Matatini brought together 55 haka groups from around Aotearoa and was described as the “Olympics” of Kapa Haka. 

January 2025

Back to School

Each January, our teams around New Zealand providing school bus services, take the time to reach out directly to the school communities they serve to actively promote school safety messages and highlight positive behaviour messages for students catching the school bus.

Part of this is providing schools with a helpful Back to School Toolkit they can share with their school whanau and offering a special school bus safety presentation (aimed at primary and intermediate age students) that our team can deliver to reinforce the safety messages. If this is something your school is interested in receiving please email zn.oc.tiznart@gnitekram