NZTD News

Kenworth dialled up some new number designation numbers for its display at the 2025 Brisbane Truck Show which opened yesterday.

Regarded as the largest heavy commercial vehicle expo in the Southern Hemisphere – the biennial show is expected to attract more than 40,000 attendees during its run through till Sunday at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Kenworth press briefing on Thursday morning revealed five model updates – the 15-litre Cummins-powered T620 and T620 SAR duo along with 13-litre PACCA...

This week James Smith, NRC GM of Policy & Advocacy and I appeared at the Transport & Infrastructure Select Committee to discuss our submission on ‘Time of Use Charging’.

Time of use charging is jargon for congestion charging, where vehicles are charged a fee to use a transport network or enter a cordoned area at peak times. It is designed to ease congestion by driving behavioural changes where people opt to use public transport or take the discretionary trip at a different time of day.

Congestion needs to be tack...

In the face of global economic uncertainty and unprecedented trade volatility, I know that Transporting New Zealand needs to be delivering for our members, and the wider industry.

If we can move freight smarter, and more efficiently, then our industry, and our members, can play a key role in the productivity of the nation.

The key to unlocking that opportunity is our policy and advocacy work.

While there’s a lot more to do, from our work over the last 12 months we are starting to see a shift in how regulato...

A landmark $3 billion privately funded development in Otago is set to create New Zealand’s largest inland port, boosting the export capacity of the country’s primary industries and future-proofing South Island freight logistics for the next century.

Dunedin’s seaport is NZ’s sixth largest by export volumes and provides critical access to sea freight for Otago and Southland’s forestry, dairy and aquaculture sectors. Capacity constraints at Port Chalmers have threatened to impact the region's economic growth, with a sear...

Health, safety and wellbeing are big concerns for the road freight industry, a major survey of the sector has found.

The 2025 National Road Freight Industry Survey of 194 industry participants across 128 road freight businesses was run 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 represents the most extensive industry snapshot in more than a decade.

A total of 78 per cent of respondents in the...

IVECO is taking part in the Tour d’Europe 2025 - an initiative involving the entire European automotive value chain, with over 20 partners - aimed at raising awareness about the role of renewable fuels in achieving climate neutrality by 2050, as outlined in the European Green Deal.

IVECO joins the Tour- which began last March in Madrid - with its new S-Way LNG truck powered by biomethane. The company is actively demonstrating that renewable gas effectively reduces CO₂ emissions and offers a concrete, scalable solution ...