You are the driver

Appearances are important. How you drive, your speed, your cornering, courtesy to other road users, in short your professionalism, speaks volumes about the company you work for. The way your vehicle is presented is another consideration – it doesn’t have to be the...

Running for the ferry

How many times have I written about the pressure put onto truck drivers to meet the Picton – Wellington ferry when the loading has delayed its departure? Then here I am, leaving Nelson wondering if l have left myself enough time to get to the Picton ferry. My first...

The escape routes are being closed

It has just been announced that publishing of ORS ratings to the public has been pushed out until next year. Within a week of this, we heard that ACC are to publish a Fleet safety rating for each fleet based on your claims history. This is not the same as the ORS, it...

The Driver Shortage: an alternative option

It is less time consuming (and cheaper) to keep an existing customer than to get a new one. With the driver shortage well upon us, the same thinking can be translated to Drivers. Now is not the time to be losing drivers, because the effort required to attract a...

History vs technology

Am I the only one that looks at the stories from the past in the back of Truck Journal with a sense of regret that those times are gone? Certainly the work was hard, but the sense of team work born of hard manual labour required to get the job done and a focus on...