Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand

There has been a bit of discussion in recent weeks about the place of cameras in truck cabs.
What I'm talking about here are driver-facing cameras, rather than those facing forward – pointed at the road ahead.
Unions have voiced concerns and have claimed that these cameras are leading to drivers quitting the industry. The argument is that having a camera pointed at the driver is invasive and leads to a perception that the driver is being watched at all times.
The reality is that the two types of cameras – events-based, triggered when a critical event like hard-braking is engaged…..and sleep detection cameras that sound an alarm if they detect a driv...

Last year the New Zealand Intermodal Transport Safety Group (NZITSG) was formed to address the significant safety issues associated with the interface between road transport and the other modes associated with import and export freight.
The NZITSG, with secretarial support from RTF, is tasked with establishing and maintaining best practice safety and compliance standards for road transport operators loading, handling and delivering intermodal freight.
"As announced at the Group's formation, the first major project was to improve the safety of sideloader operations," says NZITSG chair Murray Young.
"A number of companies willingly shared internal procedures and policy ...

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...

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...

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...