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New Zealand’s road freight industry is painting a gloomy picture for business, with only a minority expecting their financial situation to improve over the coming year.

The results are contained in the 2025 National Road Freight Industry Survey, a major survey of 194 respondents across 128 road freight businesses, conducted in March this year by Research NZ on behalf of advocacy group Transporting New Zealand.

The survey was also promoted by the New Zealand Heavy Haulage Association and Groundspread NZ and repres...

It’s nice when a plan comes together.

There’s recently been a number of announcements by the Government about roading projects that are just finished, underway or planned for the near future.

Some of these include:

- The epic resealing of the 119 lane kilometres between Tirau and Waiouru.

- The early opening of the off-ramp on the Pāpāmoa East Interchange in Tauranga.

- NZTA endorsing Tauriko West Road of National Significance for the western Bay of Plenty.

- Plans for the Northland Expres...

The 2025 Brisbane Truck Show is set to showcase Isuzu's all-new model line-up, with a strong emphasis on safety, driver well-being, and state-of-the-art technology. This new range embodies Isuzu’s evolved ‘SEE’ engineering approach, focusing on Safety, Economy, and Environment. Isuzu has broken down its overarching safety philosophy into three pillars: Foundational safety (improving driving ergonomics and comfort), Active safety (preventing accidents), and Passive safety (protecting occupants and pedestrians during accidents...

Isuzu Trucks' top performing dealerships across New Zealand have been recognised, with the winners of the coveted Grandmasters dealership awards announced. The Isuzu Trucks Grandmasters dealership awards recognise more than just sales performance, with service, customer satisfaction, facility standards, administration performance and technical training all given important weighting in the judging process.

As a result, a Grandmasters accolade truly recognises the best of the very best across every facet of the dealershi...

Community consultation has concluded, results have been analysed, and decisions have been made on speed limits for 49 state highway corridors, with most locations set to return to their previous higher speed limits.

On 29 January 2025, the Minister of Transport confirmed that 38 sections of state highway were subject to speed limit auto-reversal under the Setting of Speed Limits Rule 2024, with a further 49 sections open to community consultation to confirm whether there was public support to retain current lower speed...

Late April and early May will see maintenance works underway on State Highway 2 between Masterton and Carterton.

Roxanne Hilliard, Wellington Transport Alliance Manager, says contractors will complete a range of maintenance tasks. 

“They will fix safety barriers – we have four recent barrier strikes that need to be fixed. It is critical damaged barriers are fixed as they are instrumental in preventing head on collisions.”

“They will also be doing road marking, signage replacement and carrying out water...