What the MPs said

Simeon Brown, National Party Transport Spokesperson

“It is critically important as we prepare our policies that we engage with the sector and that we listen to what your views are.

“We also want to make sure that our industry training is led by industry … and focus on putting industry back in the driving seat of industry training.

“The National Party wants to be focused on working with New Zealanders. We want to make sure our roads are better ,not slower, we want to make sure they're safer, we want to make sure the industry has the skills and the policy settings it needs, and, most importantly, we want to make sure we work with you, not against you.

“That's our commitment and we look forward to engaging with you over the coming weeks as we finalise our policies.”

Julie Anne Genter, Green Party Transport Spokesperson

“I worked closely with MTA when I was an associate minister and we were looking at our emissions reduction programme, so I do laud outcomes set out in this paper. I also think we have to be honest about what’s going to achieve the outcomes we want to get.

“It says in this document that the CCD has been part of the huge uptick we’ve seen in low-emissions vehicles that we have seen in the past two years. And that’s true.

“When I was associate minister we researched the most effective policies to get the outcomes we needed. We came to a combination of fueleconomy standards combined with a price incentive. It has worked even better than forecast and that’s really good.”

Simon Court, ACT Transport Spokesperson

“This is a very high-quality publication, and it’s worthy of any think tank to have put together a policy proposal which sets out all the things that MTA wants to set out to achieve. It’s high-quality information like this that produces the best policy.

“ACT is happy to collaborate with MTA when it comes to things like immigration policy. Not just a Green List where a minister gets to choose who gets on the list and who doesn’t, and how long they might have to wait for a permit.

“We would say that anybody who needs to bring someone into the country, like a panelbeater, should simply be able to register and if there’s a high demand for those permits, then paying a fee, is a much simpler way to do it than having to queue up for months or years to bring people into the country”.

Kiritapu Allan, Associate Transport Minister

“MTA’s priorities for the sector - safe cars, safe air, and safe roads are essentially what this Government wants for our transport system.

“We may use different words and have different ideas about how to get there, but the goal is essentially the same.

“The Clean Car Discount and Clean Car Standard are having a big impact. The number of lower emissions vehicles available to new Zealanders has increased and EVs now make up 20 percent of vehicles introduced to New Zealand every year.

“To rapidly adopt low-emission vehicles and improving EV charging structure across the country will be absolutely vital to ensure all New Zealanders can charge when they need, and I want to acknowledge that was one of the key findings in this very useful policy document.”

What you’re telling us

Every month we reply to members’ questions and comments drawn from conversations with the MTA team. Do you need advice or an answer on something? Radiator would love to hear from you. Email simon.bradwell@mta.org.nz.

“I loved your sustainability issue you did last year. I read the whole thing and got a few more things for our ‘ to do’ list.” Thanks, we are always on the lookout for what members are doing in the area of sustainability so we can share tips and strategies.

“There needs to be consistency between the WoF paperwork available for sites around New Zealand instead of different versions.”

MTA has had discussions over this and in the future these documents will most likely be online form of inspection-type documents. This would allow for live or semi-live transaction upload and download from the Waka Kotahi database, as well as reduce error and input time. There is a challenge with this format as it is costly to build and requires API’s into Waka Kotahi database, for both upload and download. Waka Kotahi has looked at being the producer and leader for this in the past, but has determined their role is better placed as providing the information required and letting each entity make up their own way of doing this.

“I talked to staff about changing their hours so they get more time off every third weekend, and it has made a big difference to the amount of work we get through in a week and they really look forward to a regular long weekend.”

It’s great when you can boost staff morale, we have heard of a few places trying varying hours with great results.

This is a huge topic at the moment, the fourday week is making real strides all across the world with many companies and even Governments trialling it, and all reporting huge successes. There is so much evidence showing that giving staff greater flexibility and time off boosts the productivity of the staff.

Studies have shown significant improvements in productivity and morale when employees are given the option to work according to their own schedule. Even if not allowing employees to set their hours, working with them to change their hours to work better for them is a great idea.

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