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It only takes one road trip to remind me that even the bad guys are good in their own ways. I lost count of the trucks we followed at over 100km/h as we headed away for a long weekend on the motorbikes this week. But even these guys see a clear stretch of road ahead [...]

I am pleased to announce that CCS Innovation in Logistics has been contracted to extend the EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) Energising Business programme to the transport industry. This means that if you run a transport fleet and spend less than 300,000 per depot per year on fuel, there is a good chance that [...]

Were you pretty happy with your first ORS rating? You should have been as 95% of operators rated a 4 or 5 star. The second ratings are being processed at the moment and the word is that that number is starting to slide. The reason is not that you have let standards slip, more that [...]

A ride I went back to my roots this month and spent 22 hours in a truck – non stop, except for the obligatory pie (sorry log book) stops. Thanks to the Chilean ash cloud I was stranded in Auckland and, wanting to get home sooner rather than later, I called a customer and begged [...]

The CVIU’s new Top Cop Gwynne Pennell unveiled a new approach to commercial vehicle policing at the RTA seminar in St Arnaud in May. She is intending to use data to plan where and when to deploy the energy and resources of CVIU; the biggest risks will attract the most resources in terms of time [...]

It all seems to be e-this and e-that at the moment. The industry opinion seems divided as to whether this is good and natural progress following the wider trend to reduce time and space consuming paperwork, or whether it is in fact an infringement of privacy. The RUC bill is out and many have a [...]

I was fortunate enough to have booked my annual motorbike trip for the week following the latest Canterbury Earthquake. Time spent on the road away from the day to day operation is a good time to think and regroup, and, this year, to get away from the shaking. We cover about 5,500kms in a week [...]

Customers continue to get more demanding and recently I have seen evidence that the buyers of transport may well be avid readers of this column and putting the pressure on you to become proactive in seeking out efficiencies. The time is getting closer when you can’t afford not to investigate the hidden benefits of your [...]

It’s been a funny old year. And its only the 4th of February. Storms, floods, Earthquake aftershocks. Then two serious truck crashes on the Kaikoura coast, and the passing of Peter Goodwin, our RTA Region 4 anchor man. Our best wishes to everyone involved in the follow ups of each. Yet 2011 is shaping up [...]

When eRUC was still just a speck on the horizon, it sounded like a pretty small thing. Now that it is becoming a real possibility for your business, it seems to be looming like a large hairy monster. Last year, eRUC was a nifty new option for dealing with RUC. Now, after all the drafting [...]