News & updates

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.

New Zealand is falling behind other countries that are already trialling and progressing changes in the area of productivity reforms.

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.

The Green Fleet Self-Assessment tool outlines how fuel-efficient driver training and technologies, vehicle procurement standards, route planning, carbon reporting and setting reduction targets can help businesses and their customers meet sustainability goals.

Transport Minister Chris Bishop has announced that the Government is committing nearly $1.2 billion to see its Roads of National Significance (RONS) programme move to the next phase of development.  

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.