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From 1 March, Scania will officially welcome the Power Solutions operations of South Pacific Diesel Systems (SPDS) into Scania New Zealand. This marks an important milestone for our business, strengthening our national capability and customer support across the marine and industrial engine sectors. 

“This transition allows us to strengthen customer relationships, invest further in our people and infrastructure, and continue raising the bar in service quality and operational excellence,” says Victor Carvalho, Manag...

The Drug Detection Agency (TDDA), New Zealand’s largest workplace drug testing provider has launched its Q4 Imperans Report, a quarterly workplace drug trends report. The report empowers New Zealand employers to engage in proactive workplace risk management. It provides them with an analysis of drug and alcohol usage trends, combining results from across the country. 

In Q4, 4.01% of screens conducted by TDDA indicated the presence of drugs (Q3: 3.75%).

Cannabis remains the most prevalent substance detected ...

This week Minister Chris Bishop, whose portfolios include Infrastructure, welcomed the release of the National Infrastructure Plan and tabled it in Parliament. 

We’ll need to spend some time developing and sharing a meaningful view, but at this stage I think the Plan will encourage more conversation that roads are just one kind of government-funded infrastructure key to New Ze...

 On Tuesday this week, the Minister Chris Bishop tabled the Infrastructure Commission’s much anticipated National Infrastructure Plan in Parliament, or NIP as it is known amongst Wellington types.

The NIP is bringing a much overdue adult conversation to infrastructure. And like adults do, it is telling us we need to pull our socks up and tuck our shirts in.

The spoonful of medicine delivered, without any sugar, was that we can’t afford anywhere near our full shopping list for infrastructure, we need to spend...

Mayor Wayne Brown says the release of the National Infrastructure Plan (the Plan) is another win for the agenda he has been pushing to fix Auckland’s infrastructure woes.

The Mayor has welcomed the Plan, which sets out how planning, funding and delivery of infrastructure can be improved over the next 30 years.

“To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they took some of the ideas out of my Manifesto. I could’ve written that advice myself. This Plan contains some hard truths for our infrastructure sector - and for ...

On the 26th of August 2024 three people were killed when a truck fitted with super single steer tyres that was travelling south on the southern motorway in Auckland experienced a blow out of the front right steer tyre that resulted in the truck crossing through the central median barriers and into the side of a van travelling in the northbound lane.

Coroner AJ Mills has made the following recommendations directed at the trucking industry and tyre service industry at large:

That all operators of heavy motor vehicl...