News & updates

Lots of things have been on our radar this week including the Assoc. Transport Minister's decision not to mandate certain vehicle safety features, the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Act, VDAM Phase 3 and a long-awaited improvement to fuel resilience in the lower North Island.

It's been a massive week with our Friday Road Freight Decarbonisation Update, a Monday session with the South Island Regional Transport Committee Chairs, a Tuesday presentation at the Police CVST conference, and a Thursday election debate featuring all major political parties.

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.