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State Highway 29 at Hinuera (near Matamata) will be closed during the day for almost three weeks for road rehabilitation work.

From Wednesday 7 February until Monday 26 February 2024 the road will be closed between 6am and 6pm on weekdays, with traffic detoured north along SH27 and Hopkins Road. The detour is expected to add around 10 minutes to journeys along SH29. 

Closing the road means the work will be quicker and safer than if Stop/Go was in place says Roger Brady, System Manager at NZ Transport Agency ...

Lower North Island - There will be a closure on State Highway 53 from Tuesday next week as repairs begin on the Tauwharenikau Bridge. Local road detours will be available.

Repairs and closure planned for Tauwharenikau Bridge – State Highway 53 Wellington drivers need to plan ahead for night closures and resurfacing works planned for the urban motorway in February.

 Major road works planned for the Wellington urban motorway next month

Top of the South Island - There are two projects planned for State Hi...

Trevor Milton, the discredited founder and former CEO of electric truck startup Nikola, has been sentenced to four years in prison for securities fraud. The sentence, by Judge Edgardo Ramos in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, ends a multi-year tale that saw Nikola stock rise and then crash at epic proportions, with accusations of fraud and cancelled contracts.

In his ruling, Ramos said he would impose a sentence of 48 months on each count, served concurrently, and a fine of $1 million. Milton is expected to appeal...

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is reminding motorists about summer maintenance on the Auckland Harbour Bridge from now until early April.

‘The summer maintenance programme will focus on recoating parts of the bridge overarches and require lane restrictions to keep our teams safe while they carry out this important maintenance’.

The full schedule can be found on the NZTA website however, the work will include lane restrictions (North and South) between 10pm and 5am.

As this work is weather dependent,...

There were two big highlights in the last week, one for our industry and one for the country.

The industry one was presenting a bravery award to Hall’s driver Tony Cook in Christchurch.

I was joined with John Collins from EROAD, one of our key partners, in saying thanks, and bloody good job!

Tony put himself on the line to offer help and support after a nasty car accident near Ward, in November, and there’ll be an interview with Tony in February’s Transporting News magazine.

(Truckies are of...

The Government’s announcement that the Road User Charges (RUC) exemption for light electric vehicles and plug in hybrids will end in April is good news for the state of the roads. But it also highlights the challenges to zero emission truck uptake, says road freight peak body Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand.

Policy advisor Billy Clemens says the coalition Government had made the right call in ending the temporary RUC exemption for light EVs.

“The temporary RUC reduction was a helpful sweetener while ligh...