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TRANSPORT OPERATORS carrying dangerous goods may have recently noticed far more stringent checks on their documentation from Cook Strait ferry companies and the Police. Unfortunately, this is a result of increased poor practice from some operators within our industry....and it has to stop.
Ferry operators and those who represent them have both privately (to the Road Transport Forum) and publicly voiced their concern over a growing trend for some transport operators to carry undeclared or incorrectly-labelled dangerous goods onto ferries. Such concerns are taken extremely seriously.
While RTF knows that the majority of transporters work extremely hard to make sure that docum...

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You may have heard of the term "a social licence to operate." It refers to the level of acceptance that the local community and the general public have for your organisation and how you go about your business.
Every business is subject to this kind scrutiny and those that ignore public views and demands can quickly go out of business.
Due to the very nature of road transport, and the fact that we use public roads every day, our social licence to operate has an even higher bar than for most industries… and we are very visible to the general public.
The public rightly expect our businesses to not only be sources of wealth creation and employment, but also to play...

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Two new categories will highlight this year's New Zealand Road Transport Industry Awards Gala Dinner, to be held following the Road Transport Forum Conference, on Wednesday September 25 at Wairakei Resort, near Taupo.
The new awards are the Teletrac Navman Outstanding Contribution by a Woman in the Road Transport Industry Award and the EROAD Young Driver of the Year (under 35) Award. These two categories replace the Industry Innovation Award and the Training Award that were presented over recent years.
The new categories join the existing VTNZ Supreme Contribution to Road Transport Award and the EROAD Outstanding Contribution to Health and Safety Award and provide the indu...

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The 2019 RTF Conference, which is being held at the Wairakei Resort near Taupo on September 24 and 25, will have Central Focus as its theme.
"We believe that now is the correct time to focus on the issues and topics that are of central concern to our livelihoods and the wellbeing of those we employ and do business with," says RTF chief executive Nick Leggett.
"There are many challenges we currently face that are central to the industry's future success – from workforce shortages to increased health and safety compliance and, of course, safety out there on the road."
Leggett says that the Forum, along with Region 2 and CARTA – who are running the conferenc...

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In the wake of the tragedy that unfolded in Christchurch on March 15 there has never been a better time to address the issue of cultural diversity in our society and within our industry.
Every day New Zealand becomes a more culturally diverse nation. The last census that we have results of – way back in 2013 – showed that NZ's population is made up of significantly large ethnic groups from all around the world.
Seventy-four percent of people in 2013 identified as European, 14.9% as Māori, 11.8% as Asian, 7.4% as Pacific peoples and 1.2% as Middle-Eastern, Latin American and African.
In Auckland, our most multi-ethnic region, 59.3% identify as European, 23....

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