NZTD News

The star of the show in the April 2025 issue of New Zealand Truck & Driver is the new generation Western Star X-Series.

We visit sunny Hawke’s Bay for the Giti Tyres Big Test showcasing the Berkett Earthmovers Western Star 48X. It’s the first of the boldly-styled new X-Series models to go to work in a Kiwi fleet and is busy hauling rock and aggregate to around the Bay.

Our April Fleet Focus is on the busy city streets of Auckland with a visit to 104-year-old A.J. Tutill & Sons Carrier...

How policy can prevent the next tragedy. When a driver sent 45 Snapchat messages from behind the wheel of their truck before ploughing the 30-tonne truck and trailer unit into a stationery ute last year, the driver of the ute was killed. New Zealand vehicle safety and training experts AutoSense says the tragedy underscores the importance for businesses to have safeguards in place to protect their workforce from more preventable harm on our roads. 

The safety business has installed almost 6,000 AI-powered Guardian ...

Ford Trucks, the heavy commercial brand of Ford Otosan, and IVECO, the brand of Iveco Group N.V. that designs, manufactures and markets light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles, today announce the signing of a binding Joint Development Agreement (JDA) for the design and engineering of a new cabin for heavy-duty trucks.

This agreement follows the exclusive, non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) announced by the two companies on 14th March 2024, transforming it into an operational project. The JDA is a contrac...

The intersection of State Highway 2 (SH2) and Wainui Road in the Eastern Bay of Plenty will be made safer and more efficient for vehicles and freight with the construction of a new and long-awaited roundabout, says Transport Minister Chris Bishop.

“The current intersection of SH2 and Wainui Road is on a sweeping bend with limited visibility. There were nine crashes at this intersection between 2014 and 2023, three of them were injury crashes, one of which was serious. Construction of a roundabout here will make a real ...

The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) has announced formal speed reviews for 16 sections of state highways across the country. This comes in response to community feedback following the release of a list of locations where speed limits were set to automatically revert to higher, pre-2020 levels under the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2024.

The rule states that urban connectors with speed reductions since 1 January 2020 must return to their original, higher speed limits by 1 July 2025. Howev...

Polling shows strong positive public sentiment towards truck drivers, with more than seven times as many people surveyed having a positive perception of road freight drivers compared to those taking a negative view (52 per cent to 7 per cent).

The survey respondents noted truck drivers’ professionalism and skill, essential service and economic contribution, and hard work and long hours, as the leading three reasons for the results.

Public polling done by independent survey firm Research New Zealand, for road frei...