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MITO marks a new era in industry training
Automotive and transport training provider MITO is being welcomed as a business division of new national education provider Te Pūkenga. It follows the Government’s new training…
Ping pong balls lose dangerous goods classification
A decision by the United Nations means that ping pong balls are no longer to be classified as dangerous goods reports the UK-based Freight Transport Association…
“Look, Mum, no hands!”
As part of a Daimler educational initiative, two German youngsters had the autobahn ride of their lives in a prototype Mercedes-Benz Actros 6x4 tractor which has…
Gothenburg Electric Volvo Bus provides some Christmas cheer
Passengers using the fully Electric Volvo buses in the collaborative ElectriCity project in the Swedish city of Gothenburg got a little bit more Christmas cheer than…
Retired truckie wins $10.7 million, buys new jandals
A retired truck driver from Pukekohe has received the gift of a lifetime after winning $10.7 million on a Lotto Powerball ticket given to him by…
NQN:Migrating salmon hitch a truck ride
Drought in California has seen millions of juvenile Chinook salmon hitching a ride to the Pacific Ocean in tankers rather than swimming through depleted rivers and…
Win one of three copies of McCashin’s book
DIESELtalk has three copies of The McCashin's Story: How Craft Beer Got Started in New Zealand, to giveaway. The book tells the remarkable small business success…
NQN: Truck load of nappies triggers nuclear alarm
Hazmat specialists in Austria were recently concerned with a high radioactive reading from a waste truck entering a refuse facility. An unusually high Geiger counter reading…
NQN: Bus passengers ask for nothing
Stand down, Santa - greed is over and Christmas presents are so last year, according to the good folk who travel on long distance buses in…