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A guide for agricultural vehicles and their safe and legal use on New Zealand roads.

Applies to these vehicles:

• Agricultural tractors (including implements which are transported on tractors such as front-end loaders and mowers mounted on a three-point linkage).
• Agricultural trailers (including loader wagons, ploughs and rakes with their own road wheels). 
• Self-drive agricultural machines (including combines, forage and grape harvesters, pea and corn harvesters, telescopic handlers, log harvesting equipment).

Topics include:

• Vehicle registration and licensing
• Road user charges (RUC)
• Key vehicle safety issues such as being a slow, large vehicle with projecting parts, towing connections and lighting
• Warrants and certificates of fitness (WoF/ CoF)
• Driver licensing
• Transport service licence (TSL)
• Work time and logbook requirements
• Fatigue management.