Celebrating being an industry that gets things done

Despite the challenges that affect the transport of road freight in a hard economy, our members have continued to keep NZ moving.

A “Claytons” announcement

This week’s replacement ferry announcement was underwhelming. We really expected much more progress to have been made in terms of…

The state of the economy, the economy of the state

There’s a lot to be done to update NZ Inc. The good news is that the process is getting underway.

There’s no hard and fast rules on concrete roads

Nobody is saying no to building concrete roads in New Zealand. What a road is made of depends on the whole-of-life cost, safety, the…

If you have safety procedures in place, use them

Safety policies and systems need to be working end-to-end and be effective at managing the risk, otherwise business owners as PCBU’s are…

Thinking differently and seeing progress

There’s been a lot of great developments lately and overall it shows that people are thinking about making things easier, rather than…

Good Medicine Often Makes You Shudder

The appointment of economist Cam Bagrie to the Board of Transporting New Zealand got this response from Dave McCoid of NZ Trucking.

Onwards and upwards!

Our new Board met this week and very quickly got into action, appointing economist Cam Bagrie as Independent Director and Chair.

It’s roads, Jim, but not as we know them

Better roads mean happier, and safer, citizens. But sometimes councils seem to have a slightly different agenda.

Freight companies battling on despite tougher economy

When the going gets rough, trucking firms get smarter.