Mr Warwick Kenneth Wilshier, To be a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the road freight industry. 

Mr Warwick Wilshier has been a log truck operator for more than 44 years, and has substantially increased the safety standards of log transport nationally through governance and advocacy. 

Mr Wilshier began as a one truck operator in 1982, and became one of New Zealand’s largest log truck fleet owners with more than 150 vehicles. In 1985 he joined the New Zealand Road Transport Association Region 2 and was appointed the Region 2 representative on the Road Transport Forum in 2018. He was a founding member of the New Zealand Log Transport Safety Council in 1996, established to address the safety of log trucks operating on New Zealand highways. He advocated for the increase of log truck trailer lengths to 22 metres, allowing for lower loads and significantly increasing the safety of the vehicles. He led the development of new vehicle designs and driver education. At the conclusion of his 25 years as Chair of the Council in 2025, log truck rollovers had reduced from 2.4 per million kilometres to 0.3. He was appointed Chair of the Road Transport Forum, and was Chair of I Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand from 2021 to 2024. Mr Wilshier was inducted into the New Zealand Road Transport Hall of Fame in 2022.