No sweat (or not)

Extreme weather, the climate crisis and El Niño … it’s climate change 101.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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