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Dispatch, March 14

March 14, 2025

|In News

|By Bill O'Byrne

The Friday Blog: Cook Strait, the Desert Road and NZTA!

HPMV permitting how-to videos!

Books for the mind!

Big gains on the roads!

Rollover prevention courses for Auckland and Whangarei!

The Friday Funny, and the Friday Quiz!

Plus: So much more!

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North Island rollover prevention courses in May

Good work on the Desert Road

Carden Shaft Park Brake Survey for NZTA

Dispatch, March 7

Refining the points around Marsden Point

Auckland congestion costing freight companies and customers millions

National Freight Survey is Live!

Dispatch, February 28

Transporting New Zealand Briefing to Incoming Minister 2025

Dispatch, February 21

Biketranz delivers Kiwi legends safely

Dispatch, February 14

Tell us what you think about the industry – the National Road Freight Survey

Including safety redundancy by design and cab clutter

Dispatch, February 7

Dispatch, January 31, 2025

Progress on changes to training

Work starts on reversing blanket speed limits

Dispatch, January 24

Dispatch, January 17

Decisions need to be backed by data

NZTA looking at electric truck driving exemptions

Dispatch, January 10

A happy New Year to everyone!

Some of the highs and lows of 2024

Road freight sector welcomes Cook Strait ferry certainty

Making a better case for road tolls

Dispatch, December 6

Dispatch, November 29

Dispatch, November 22

Transporting New Zealand welcomes moves to reduce NZTA’s $786 million temporary traffic management spend

Dispatch, November 15

Good Medicine Often Makes You Shudder

Onwards and upwards!

Economist Cam Bagrie appointed chairman of the board for Transporting New Zealand

Dispatch, October 24

Dispatch, October 18

Trucking operators support Government’s targeted actions on road safety

Dispatch, October 11

New faces, top awards for freight sector

Dispatch, October 4

Transporting New Zealand opposes tolling on Manawatū Tararua Highway

Dispatch, September 27

Transporting New Zealand calls for additional measures to support the Low Emissions Heavy Vehicle Fund

Road freight transport sector concerned at workforce gap for transport projects

Road freight transport sector supports call for industry-led approach to vocational training

North Island Seminar Awards

Dispatch, September 13

Nominations for the Transporting New Zealand Endowment Committee 2024

2024 Board nominees

Trucker Appreciation Food Stop at Remutaka Hilltop Thursday 19 September 2024

Dispatch, September 6

Dispatch, August 30, 2024

Universal Road User Charges needed to future-proof transport funding

Dispatch, August 23, 2024

Dispatch August 16, 2024

Road freight sector facing barriers in efforts to decarbonise

MBIE warns transport operators about compliance with employment standards

Transporting New Zealand supports moves to free up traffic at key times

Dispatch, August 9, 2024

Positioning of registration plates

Dispatch, August 2, 2024

Dispatch, July 27, 2024

Coalition of transport groups calls for re-think on Thorndon Quay raised pedestrian crossings plan

Dispatch, July 19, 2024

Winter driving advice

Dispatch, July 12, 2024

North Island Seminar, Napier

Dispatch, July, 5 2024

Rollover Prevention Workshops

Dispatch, June 27, 2024

Cost pressures on trucking firms continue to rise

Ferry grounding demonstrates importance of a resilient Cook Strait connection

Dispatch, June 21 2024

Port of Auckland profit drive will hit businesses and consumers

Rethink on health and safety welcomed

Dispatch, June 7 2024

Dispatch, May 31, 2024

Updating your Terms of Carriage

Roading investment welcomed amid tough times for industry

Dispatch, May 24, 2024

Dispatch, May 17, 2024

Robbing Peter to pay Paul?

Dispatch newsletter, May 10,2024

Dispatch newsletter, May 3, 2024

Cheers to many fewer grape harvest spills

Dispatch newsletter April 19 , 2024

Investment in Northland infrastructure vital for growth, say industry leaders

Dispatch newsletter April 12, 2024

Update on Waka Kotahi issuing invoices for unpaid RUC using high speed weigh-in-motion

Competition essential for the Cook Strait connection

Infrastructure fast-track essential for transport projects

Dispatch March 1, 2024

Dispatch February 9, 2024

2024/25 Energy Levies Proposal

Seeking solutions for problems and challenges

Low emission trucks need a boost as well

Government right to hold KiwiRail to account on Interislander cost blowout

Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Transport

Road freight group welcomes incoming Minister of Transport

IRTENZ conference is coming up fast!

Maritime New Zealand on the draft Approved Code of Practice for loading and discharging cargo at ports and on ships

Rising fuel costs a risk to falling inflation figures

Transporting New Zealand cautiously optimistic about election result

Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024

Rethink on speed limits welcomed

Roading resilience must be the top transport priority

AGMs to discuss constitutional changes

Summit Programme

Industry sideloader project endorsed by WorkSafe

Transporting New Zealand launches Diversity Toolbox for road freight businesses

The Diversity Toolbox Goes Live

Transporting New Zealand supports Government changes to the roadside drug testing regime

Draft Land Transport GPS won’t deliver a resilient roading network

Last chance to register for tomorrow’s Employing Migrant Drivers webinar

Political parties heed Transporting New Zealand’s call to commit to roading

Conference at the edge of “A Changing World”

National Freight Forum for the logistics sector

Aotearoa New Zealand’s surface freight task – road and rail

Call for political parties to commit to transport priorities

Transporting New Zealand interim Chief Executive

Transporting New Zealand opposes cutting fuel tax subsidy

Transporting New Zealand CEO shifts to Infrastructure New Zealand

REMINDER: Auckland Flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle Business Financial Support

Stock Effluent Disposal Site Network Project

Auckland Flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle Business Financial Support

Transporting New Zealand’s Green Compact: Our decarbonisation framework.

Cyclone Gabrielle Recovery: Useful Information

Proposed change to streamline Transporting New Zealand

HWR’s safety campaign calls out dangerous choices on the road

Message from National Manager Police Commercial Vehicle Safety Team – Focus on Enforcement

Another great example of those closest to the risk leading the management of that risk

Heavy vehicle inspection trial booking system a hit with users in Porirua (Story from VTNZ)

Transport sector ‘encouraged’ but not convinced by promise to revisit extension of transport support package

Safety Alert Trunnion Repairs

Government must extend fuel rebate in a recession

Certainty needed now on fuel discount extension

Sharp spike in costs may hurt transport operators and consumers, industry body warns

ACC Advisory – recovery at work

Era of ‘sugar candy economics’ has ended, Bagrie warns conference

More change inevitable for road transport sector, conference told

Trucking Industry faces ongoing COVID-19 wellbeing challenges

Road and Rail Report

The road ahead for transport

Millions in new charges for rail freight users

COVID-19 VACCINATION AND TESTING

Interisland ferry shortage causing freight headaches

Transmission Gully opening delayed thanks to Covid-19 outbreak

‘Challenging few weeks’ ahead for NZ supply chain

One in 10 turned away from Auckland boundary

Covid-19: Truck lobby claims it was ‘blindsided’ over Auckland testing

Truckers blindsided by Bloomfield’s ‘advice’ on border tests

COVID-19: Truckies hoping Auckland police checkpoints aren’t as chaotic as earlier this year

Seat belt re-webbing services

Major truck driver shortage being addressed

Access addenda for road closures in Taranaki and Manawatu

Where are the worst highways in New Zealand?

Cost Index

Trucking industry desperately short of drivers

Driver behaviour targeted to reduce New Zealand road toll

Surge of container trucks expected after ship diverts to Northport

Why State Highway 1 between Auckland and Whangarei could be clogged with trucks from Friday

Truck convoys picking up Auckland cargo unloaded in Whangarei

How can trucking ditch fossil fuels?

Cost Index

Safety, cost concerns after Christmas cargo ship diverted from Auckland to Northport

Auckland port delays see big freight ship diverted to Northport

Import costs soar as global supply chain buckles under strain

Looming global container shortage a threat to NZ trade

Concerns over drug-driving as trucking industry worried about cannabis legalisation

Fears nation’s economy at risk due to Auckland Harbour Bridge transport disruption

Truckers demand billion dollar spend to fix ‘dilapidated’ roads

Nick Leggett speaks about current issues

Truckies want fast lanes in and out of Auckland to keep supply chains in tact

Government accused of ignoring dangerous Napier to Taupo highway

‘Waiting on the world’ for infrastructure workers

Legal cannabis could lead to higher premiums, says truckers’ group

Deluge of potential apprentices seeking free trades training

Tag animals before they get on trucks

Transmission Gully. Forgotten Highway?

National call for halt to latest petrol tax

Concerns Transmission Gully could be delayed by two years

Call for ‘stalled’ road safety projects to be brought forward as New Zealand moves out of coronavirus lockdown

Electrified Timaru to Christchurch rail system pushed by Greens

Third U-turn gives firms green light to chip away at backlog of imported goods

Businesses urge clarity on lockdown

Comment – Free up freight to keep the economy moving

Shortage of shipping containers could hurt exports

Truckies exempt from lockdown

Coronavirus: Essential industries to carry on

Truckies promise to deliver the goods

Truckers call on Govt to provide more clarity on what’s an essential delivery

One for the road – Ian ‘Belly’ McQueen

Covid-19: Builders worried impact will continue all year

One for the road – Ange Butler

Research into work-related deaths involving vehicles overdue, say advocates

One for the road

Lobbyists on infrastructure spend

North Island rollover prevention courses in May

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