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Justin’s Transport Minute – 12/04/2024

Last Sunday, a quiet afternoon resting with the family after a busy morning at the school fair, my phone lit up with TVNZ wanting comment on the closure of the immigration pathway for truck drivers.

What closure I asked?

Turns out that we, along with the rest of industry, were blind-sided by the Minister of Immigration announcing that the special immigration status for class 4 and 5 truck and bus drivers was revoked with immediate effect

Justin’s Transport Minute – 05/04/2024

Following on from the “Big Picture” issues that I ran through in the last Transport Minute, today I’d like to give a flavour of how the team at NRC are helping out our members at the grass roots level. It never ceases to amaze me the breadth of issues that our team helps members with on a daily basis, and I thought I’d run through some of these as it highlights the range of challenges we can assist with.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 22/03/2024

Another week where daily a new major transport story hits the headlines. So much is happening that you’ll have to forgive me – my column is probably more accurately called Justin’s Transport Five Minutes this week.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 15/03/2024

This week I’ve spent an energy boosting couple of days in Christchurch attending our hugely successful Teletrac Navman Technology, Maintenance and Safety Conference & Exhibition at Te Pae. With over 600 attendees including 130 students, 36 speakers, a strong contingent from Australia, and the media in tow – it was a fantastic event to be at.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 08/03/2024

Times up on the first hundred days of the coalition government comes today, so what’s the score card for the road transport industry?

Let’s do a quick survey of what’s across the line so far.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 23/02/2024

At midnight on Monday, a nine-week closure of the country’s main national highway arterial begins. This length of closure of a main arterial between two major centres would be unthinkable in any other modern economy, but here we are.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 16/02/2024

As I do the rounds with officials in Wellington, one refreshing new trend that is taking off is talking about productivity and efficiency. I’ve heard these two words more there in the first 6 weeks of the year than over the last 6 years.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 09/02/2024

Yesterday Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister of Transport Simeon Brown announced the end of the regional fuel tax in Auckland.

NRC welcomed this announcement

Justin’s Transport Minute – 02/02/2024

Welcome to the first Justin’s Transport Minute for 2024. While my holidays felt like they passed in one hot minute, spending time with my wife and three boys in the beautiful Bay of Islands did wonders for recharging the batteries. I hope you managed to get some precious down time with loved ones too.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 08/12/2023

This week at NRC we’ve made further ground preparing for the upcoming closure of State Highway 1 in the Brynderwyns. Paula Rogers our Northland Commercial Transport Specialist,

Justin’s Transport Minute – 03/11/2023

Today the country has been waiting for the announcement on the make up of our future government. Some seats may swing, the power-balance may shift a little between coalition partners, but the outcome is already clear – New Zealand has voted for change.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 13/10/2023

One of the great things I love about NRC is the passion our members have for the industry, and the people that work in it. A great example happened this week. Paula Rogers, one of our Commercial Transport Specialists received a call from a concerned member who could see an unsafe steel girder load being transported on the motorway.

Justin’s Transport Minute – 22/09/2023

Another busy week for NRC with plenty of exciting initiatives underway for our members. The team have been busy signing up lots of new members. It’s really pleasing

Justin’s Transport Minute – 15/09/2023

Yesterday I had the privilege of presenting at the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders (CBAFF) conference in Wellington, along with NRC board member Pamela Bonney.