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Heavy vehicle selection guide

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Category: Commercial drivers & operators , Guidance for specialists | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

This guide is designed to help you, as a heavy vehicle purchaser, choose the right vehicle to improve your business's efficiency, safety and - ultimately - profitability.

Land Transport Rule: Heavy Vehicles 2004

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Category: Heavy vehicles , Land transport rules | Audiences: General, Heavy vehicle operators

This rule sets out requirements and standards for heavy vehicle safety.

Bus lighting assessment and improvement options

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Category: Guidance for specialists | Audiences: Heavy vehicle operators, Road controlling authorities, Vehicle inspectors & inspecting organisations

This guidance outlines a standardised headlamp lighting performance assessment method, called the reference line method (RLM).

Commercial road transport toolkit for drivers and operators

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Category: Commercial drivers & operators , Guidance for specialists | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

This toolkit's 'infocards' contain important information for commercial road transport drivers and operators.

Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Dimensions and Mass 2002 (Revoked 1 February 2017)

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Category: Vehicle dimensions and mass , Land transport rules | Audiences: General, Heavy vehicle operators

(Revoked: 1 February 2017) (See Land Transport Rule: Vehicle Dimensions and Mass 2016) The rule covers requirements for dimension and mass limits to enable vehicles, in particular, heavy truck and trailer combinations, to be operated safely on New Ze…

Bus and coach safety brochures

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Category: Commercial drivers & operators , Guidance for specialists | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

The NZ Transport Agency and the New Zealand Bus and Coach Association have produced these brochures to assist bus or coach drivers and operators keep themselves and their passengers safe.

Alternative approved means of recording (electronic driver logbooks)

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Category: Corporate publications | Audiences: Heavy vehicle operators, Taxi drivers & operators

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency has the authority to approve an alternative means of recording matters (also known as electronic driver logbooks) relevant to monitoring work time.

Gross vehicle mass (GVM) policy position statement

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Category: Guidance for specialists | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

The NZ Transport Agency has removed the GVM policy statement while we review its implementation relating to new heavy vehicles.

Getting started: becoming a truck operator or operating a trucking business in New Zealand

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Category: Commercial drivers & operators , Guidance for specialists | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

This booklet is to help people wanting to start up a business as a truck operator or who intend running a business where trucks will be used.

R T W endorsements for special-type vehicles (Factsheet 40)

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Category: Occupational driving , Factsheets | Audience: Heavy vehicle operators

This factsheet advises when you need to have a rollers, tracks or wheels endorsement on your driver licence and provides information on how to get one.