Over the last couple of decades, I’ve had the opportunity to be part of the International Forum for Heavy Vehicle Transport and Technology (HVTT). The most recent symposium, HVTT18 in Quebec, offered a good reminder of the value in stepping outside our own day-to-day issues and seeing where things are heading internationally in research, technical development, and policy.

Although New Zealand is small and geographically distant from many of the countries represented, the symposium helped put things into perspective. There were areas of clear overlap in the challenges we face, but also some key differences in how they’re being managed.

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