News & updates

This week’s update celebrates the resilience, leadership and quiet graft that keeps New Zealand’s transport industry moving. From honouring Hall of Fame inductees to pushing for fairer FAF arrangements, smarter detours and stronger sector-led assurance programmes.

This week Head of Policy & Advocacy, James McDevitt reports on a meeting with the Associate Transport Minister; on an MBIE briefing on fuel supply and refining capacity, and how NZTA and Police are better using data for decisionmaking.

This week I had the pleasure of visiting members in Palmerston North whose business has grown dramatically over the past decade, and it was good to reflect on their success. We also agreed to get in behind Infrastructure New Zealand’s “Let’s Build NZ” campaign, which has great synergies with our Election Platform.

This week we launched our Election Platform which we'll be taking to policy makers across the country. In other news, NZTA's detour decisions raise questions, and the 50MAX transition is frustrating operators.

Our Election Platform which we launch next week calls for a stable pipeline of transport investment to support economic growth, among a range of other important appeals. The best way of securing stable funding is to collect money via user-pays mechanisms to reduce the risk of relying on loans and grants.

The new Mackays Crossing CVSC is an impressive facility and its use of smart tech will hopefully mean fewer compliant trucks are pulled in for inspection. In other happenings this week, we’ve brought the Ministry for Regulation’s attention to how livestock transporters are unfairly penalised for effluent spills.