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- EROAD and RTA Announce Closer Business Relationship
- 16/12/2011
- EROAD and the New Zealand Road Transport Association (RTANZ) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a Business Relationship Agreement. more
- EROAD Launches First Mobile RUC Application
- 03/08/2011
- EROAD has developed an innovative mobile RUC application that allows clients to manage and purchase RUC for their vehicles using most web-enabled mobile devices. Mobile RUC has been specifically designed for mobile users to enable EROAD clients to experience easy navigation and an improved user experience. EROAD’s mobile RUC application can be used on Android, iPhone and Blackberry phones and tablets. more
- EROAD gets a VIP visitor
- 29/07/2011
- The Labour leader the Hon Phil Goff visited the EROAD offices to get a better understanding of how systems like EROAD’s can help solve some of the challenges facing the transport industry in New Zealand and internationally. more
- EROAD and Kiwirail work together to improve productivity and safety
- 25/07/2011
- EROAD has won a major tender to supply KiwiRail with an advanced GPS Fleet Management System for their fleet of light and heavy commercial vehicles. more
- EROAD Launches Service Module to Lower Maintenance Costs
- 23/06/2011
- Repairs and maintenance are a significant component of transport business expenses representing upwards of 10% of vehicle operating costs. more
- TR and EROAD working to make trucking easier
- 15/02/2011
- A Heads of Agreement has been signed between TR Group and EROAD to work together in providing and developing Eruc options for the industry. more
- Navman Wireless partners with EROAD to provide electronic RUC
- 15/02/2011
- Navman Wireless, New Zealand’s leading vehicle tracking and telematics provider, has partnered with EROAD to provide transport industry customers with electronic road user charge (ERUC) functionality. more
- iCOS LiVE and EROAD Launch Ehubo Integrated Online Vehicle and Transport Management System
- 07/01/2011
- iCOS and EROAD have launched an Ehubo powered transport management system that provides an unprecedented combination of services to transport operators, with the best and most extensive set of business tools available. more
- EROAD Chairman appointed CEO Ports of Auckland
- 23/12/2010
- EROAD’s chairman, Tony Gibson, has been appointed Chief Executive of Ports of Auckland Ltd. Mr Gibson will continue in his role as chairman of EROAD’s Board of Directors. more
- Eruc Turns One Today
- 03/09/2010
- New Zealand technology company EROAD is delighted to announce its innovative electronic road user charging (Eruc) service turns one today. more
- EROAD Appoints Independent Chairman
- 01/09/2010
- Technology company EROAD has appointed independent director Tony Gibson as chairman of its Board of Directors. more
- EROAD Welcomes RUC Reforms
- 08/07/2010
- EROAD supports the Government’s latest moves to simplify and modernise the road user charges (RUC) system, saying proposed changes mean that it makes more financial sense than ever for truckies to switch to electronic RUC. The proposed changes will: more
- EROAD Top Performer At Swedish Eruc Trials
- 02/07/2010
- EROAD was the top performer in the Swedish Eruc trials, achieving 99.6% worstcase charging accuracy and 100% charging compliance. In addition EROAD demonstrated full interoperability and 100% compliance with the proposed Swedish and European Electronic Tolling Service charging interfaces. more
- EROAD Wins Two Hi-Tech Awards
- 10/05/2010
- EROAD has won two Hi-Tech Awards, which recognise excellence by New Zealand's producers of high-technology products, services and software solutions. EROAD won both the HIFX Innovative Service Product Award and the Dell Innovative Hardware Award. more
- EROAD and Vodafone make trucking easier
- 24/03/2010
- Anyone with a truck knows all about the hassles associated with managing the requirement to pay road user charges. The dreaded mechanical hubodometer is inaccurate and prone to sudden failure, always at the most inconvenient time and place, while the paper-based RUC regime is now well past its use-by date. more
- Ehubo Approved
- 23/02/2010
- The New Zealand Government has approved EROAD’s innovative Ehubo and Tubo devices as the first official electronic distance recorders under the Road User Charges Amendment Regulations. This means that EROAD customers will no longer have to fit mechanical hubodometers to their trucks and trailers. The Ehubo approval also enables the use of electronic RUC Licences, removing the need for EROAD customers to display paper RUC licences. more
- Electronic Distance Recorders Approved
- 04/12/2009
- The New Zealand Government has amended the Road User Charges Regulations to allow for the use of Electronic Distance Recorders and the electronic display of RUC Licences. The amended regulations allow the Ministry of Transport to approve EROAD’s innovative eHubo product as a recognised Electronic Distance Recorder, and also provide for EROAD’s electronic licence display to be recognised as an official RUC Licence. The RUC Amendment Regulations come into force on 1 January 2010. more
- Eruc trial in Sweden
- 25/11/2009
- New Zealand technology company EROAD has begun road trials in Sweden of its electronic Road User Charge (Eruc) platform. The trials are being conducted as part of ARENA, a Swedish R&D project investigating the area of road user charging. The trial will evaluate how different equipment for the collection of distance based road user charges for heavy vehicles perform in practice in order to evaluate and verify the ARENA concept's viability and attractiveness. more
- EROAD launches export drive
- 05/10/2009
- New Zealand technology company EROAD has launched an export drive based on the sale of its fully wireless electronic Road User Charge (Eruc) platform. more
- Two world firsts for Wellington: Ehubo and Hino hybrid truck demonstration
- 03/06/2009
- EROAD has organised with HINO NZ to provide a demonstration in Wellington of its Ehubo, the world's first secure electronic hubodometer, using HINO's new hybrid, the world's first production diesel/electric hybrid light truck. more
- Eruc Launch
- 06/05/2009
- CEO Steven Newman says that EROAD has received approval from the NZTA to launch its online Eruc service. Details around the RUC Agency are still being finalised but EROAD expects the system to go live in the next couple of months. more
- NZTA Statement on EROAD Eruc Trial
- 29/04/2009
- In an interview with Truck & Driver, reported in the May 2009 Issue, NZTA Policy Manager, Delaney Myers, has stated that a commercial trial of EROAD's online RUC service is expected to begin shortly. The Eruc trial will allow EROAD to offer its innovative electronic Road User Charge (RUC) Management System to HV customers. more
- Electronic Solution to RUC Evasion
- 21/04/2009
- A more accurate, secure and fairer electronic road user charge (Eruc) system - rather than a backwards move to additional fuels taxes - is the best way to tackle the problem of truck drivers evading paying their way, says technology company EROAD. more
- EROAD joins Eruc trial in Sweden
- 11/12/2008
- New Zealand technology company EROAD is to deploy its eHubo product in a government sponsored field trial to develop an electronic Road User Charge (Eruc) system for Heavy Vehicles (HVs) in Sweden. Participation in the Swedish Eruc trials will demonstrate the EROAD technology to a global audience with the potential for substantial export sales, says EROAD CEO Steven Newman. New Zealand is ideally placed to develop a local high technology sector based on road pricing and related services. An Eruc industry would create highly skilled jobs, generate significant export revenues, and contribute to productivity growth, he said. more
- Ehubo trials are now underway
- 08/08/2008
- Extensive field trials of the Ehubo, the world's first secure hubodometer product, are now underway, with 100 Units currently being trialled in major HV fleets throughout New Zealand. more