News & updates

At a recent Transporting New Zealand member seminar in Christchurch, sleep expert and former army psychologist Dan Ford of the Better Sleep Clinic challenged operators to rethink what they know about rest.

The NZTA will begin operating – and enforcing – its first average speed camera in December, the first of 17 planned around the country over the next 12 months.

Amongst the plethora of consultations on changes to vehicle rules announced by NZTA at the end of October, were also plans to change light vehicle inspections.

Just two weeks after the North Island Road Freight Seminar and Industry Awards, we held a Road Freight Decarbonisation Update to share how the sector has been pursuing emissions reduction and what different pathways towards decarbonisation look like.

Transporting New Zealand says that getting higher capacity trucks on the road is essential to boosting freight productivity, as the Government opens consultation on simplifying heavy vehicle permitting.

We’ve probably all seen the media attention around the number of businesses being liquidated at the moment. The transport industry, and road freight in particular, appear to have seen large rises in liquidations. Often it’s Inland Revenue that initiate these.