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Over the last 72 hours I’ve sensed a quantum leap in attention and urgency to VDAM reform as officials advise their Ministers on what can be done about the fuel price crisis. 

With our large coastline, New Zealand has a huge exclusive economic zone, and there is absolutely the potential for more oil to be discovered somewhere in it.

It’s been another week dominated by fuel price rises and increasing pressure on freight operators. Despite these record cost-pressures, trucks continue their essential work.

The Government's Fuel Response Package suggests transport operators should start implementing fuel-saving measures in the 'precautionary' phase, but they already are.

Dom's week of travel disruption put the growing uncertainty of our transport operators and truck drivers' daily grind into perspective.

Stormy weather and road closures over the 2025/26 summer cost the freight transport industries big time, and not just monetarily.