Agricultural vehicles guide

A guide for the safe and legal use of tractors, agricultural trailers and agricultural machines on New Zealand’s roads

Print version: Agricultural vehicles guide (PDF, 731 KB, 58 pages)

1. What vehicles and topics are included?

Vehicles included:

• 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, telescopic handlers).

Vehicles not included:

• Trucks even if they are used for agricultural purposes (including ground spreaders and agricultural aviation loaders). These are treated just like other trucks that are used on the road.
• All terrain vehicles (ATVs).

Topics covered:

• 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 law.
• Fatigue management.

The guide applies to vehicles driven on a road – namely streets and highways, and also any place the public has access to, including bridges, beaches, riverbeds, car parks, reserve lands, wharves and road shoulders. More detail can be found in section 10: Definitions.

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Last updated: 30 July 2008