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Maintenance work is scheduled to take place on State Highway 1 (SH1) from Manukau to Drury this Sunday 9 June between 9pm and 5am. During this closure, maintenance activities will be carried out in combination with the Papakura to Drury Project.

While the closure is in place there will be a signposted detour via Redoubt Road and Great South Road to the SH1 Drury southbound on-ramp. This detour will add approximately 15 minutes to people’s journeys, so please plan ahead and allow extra time.

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Mangamuka Gorge, the ‘infamous’ section of State Highway 1 in Northland, is expected to reopen by Christmas after a closure that has lasted over two years. This crucial road link was severely damaged by a series of 15 slips during a major storm in August 2022, just a year after it had reopened following a previous year-long closure.

Efforts to repair the 13-kilometre road had been underway for less than six months when another storm in April 2023 triggered an additional 20 slips, causing further delays and escalating c...

The big story this week is Finance Minister Nicola Willis' first budget. 



In her speech to parliament, she first highlighted the significant fiscal challenges New Zealand faces.


The current economic downturn started earlier, is deeper and will last longer than previously acknowledged. Unemployment is expected to peak towards the end of 2024 beginning of 2025. The Government revenue is 18.5 billion lower than expected.



To address this the Government has chosen to manage spending and aims to return New Z...

It’s been another big week, with our webinar about the Terms of Trade on Wednesday and yesterday’s Budget which made some big commitments to roading which will have a big impact on the road freight sector, and for NZ Inc.

It’s great to hear that the Budget has confirmed increased funding for big roading and infrastructure projects.

Roads in New Zealand have been desperately under-funded for decades so new investment in highways, including national and regional roads of significance, is desperately needed.

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With winter arriving, Auckland Transport (AT) is on the final stretch of its biggest annual road maintenance programme in seven years. 

Each year AT carries out work at hundreds of sites across Auckland’s growing 7500km road network. The bulk of this work is done over the summer season during the warm and dry weather conditions needed for road resurfacing. 

“We put in extra effort and resources this summer season to catch up on a growing backlog of road maintenance, which has been exacerbated by reduced...

CAL Isuzu, the country’s largest Isuzu Truck retailer and most recent winner of the annual Grandmaster awards, has announced two new appointments which see staff promoted into Dealer Principal roles. 

Jared Keenan (pictured right), Group Sales Manager and CAL Isuzu Auckland Branch Manager, will take the added responsibility of Dealer Principal for the dealership. 

At the CAL Hamilton site, Alex Boles (pictured left) will be promoted from Branch Manager to Dealer Principal.