No sweat (or not)
Extreme weather, the climate crisis and El Niño … it’s climate change 101.
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February 25, 2024
A brainstorm in a teacup – creativity to go
The 2023 Trucking Toward a Better Future competition closes next Wednesday, 15 November 2023. There’s still time to get your entries in! Lindsay Wood…
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November 10, 2023
Where there’s less smoke there’s more fire…
With less than two weeks left to enter the 2023 Trucking Toward a Better Future competition, Lindsay Wood offers more inspirational thinking.
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November 3, 2023
Unders, overs, and speed control
“Yay!” I thought when I heard the announcement of Auckland trialling point to point average-speed cameras. “About time!” And it got me thinking about…
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October 27, 2023
Sledgehammers and nuts. Will the real problem please stand up?
“If I had an hour to solve a problem,” Albert Einstein famously said, “I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking…
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October 20, 2023
Joining big dots: the power of an idea whose time has come
If you remember Coming up with ideas one glance and one joke at a time (at https://www.nztrucking.co.nz/trucking-towards-a-better-future/) you’ll…
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October 13, 2023
Zen and the art of trucking towards a better future
Have you read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? No? You’re far from alone, even though it became a classic the moment it was published in…
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October 6, 2023
PAST COMPETITIONS
Cheese on the move!
This could be about supermarket logistics, or the rise of vegetarianism – or the connection between cheese, the Hindenburg airship disaster, and the…
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March 18, 2022
Making complicated things simple
Googling “Truck Driving Back Pain” I got 36,600,000 hits (truckers’ sore knees got 7,000,000). I doubt the sore back stats will surprise readers, and…
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March 11, 2022
Trucking towards nuclear physics
You might think I’m crazy enough to suggest the heavy transport sector should model itself on US submarines and adopt nuclear power, but even I’m not…
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February 25, 2022
Lessons from packing for a plane trip
In 2019 I was booked on an evening flight out of Hamburg, and had just checked in when the airport was put into lockdown – an unexploded WWII bomb…
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February 18, 2022
Little ideas with big, multiplier effects
Last time I waxed lyrical about the shape of a can of beans and this time it’s lamp posts. Both common as dirt, both pretty low-tech, and both with…
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February 11, 2022
Coming up with ideas one glance and one joke at a time
A few weeks ago, my newest grandson, Wyn, was born. Along with the joy of having this delightful wee man in the family, he has often illustrated…
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February 4, 2022