Today, Social Development and Employment Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Transport and Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Michael Wood joined the Road Transport Forum to launch a traineeship dedicated to the road transport industry - Te ara ki tua Road to success. "On the back of research that we conducted last year, trucking operators clearly identified a shortage of drivers being a problem for their businesses," Road Transport Forum (RTF) chief executive Nick Leggett says. "We believe in industry solving its own problems where possible, so we decided the time was right for a dedicated truck driver traineeship, run by the RTF for the industry we represent.