News & updates

Iceland has become the first country in the world to introduce universal RUC, which went live on 1 January 2026.

Transporting New Zealand recently presented to the Transport and Infrastructure select committee, opposing proposals to toll existing roads along the same corridor as new toll roads.

Dom talks about the similarities and differences between members met on a trip to Christchurch, and between New Zealand and Africa based on HVTT insights.

Use of higher productivity heavy vehicles is increasing, with more road freight firms operating larger, higher capacity truck combinations safely and efficiently. Transporting New Zealand has taken a look at the data to see how the road freight task is changing, and how regulators should be responding.

The unseasonal stormy weather has closed parts of three State Highways in the upper half of the North Island.

The impact of bad weather on transport was covered extensively in the media this week, with large slips cutting off Waioweka Gorge being one example.