HAULR APP

29/09/2026

2.39 m. That's the clearance under the Tinwald rail bridge in Ashburton, and KiwiRail says it gets hit about 13 times a year 😬

In January a campervan lost its roof there, about a month after repairs and a new impact beam went in.

Know your height before you go, not when you get there.

Source: , 28 Aug 2025; RNZ/LDR, Jan 2026.

28/09/2026

What category is my load? 📏

Find your width and read across. That gives you your category and the minimum number of pilots, by day and at night.

• 2.55–3.1 m: Cat 1, no pilot needed*
• 3.1–3.7 m: Cat 1, 1 pilot (by day, only over 40 km/h)
• 3.7–4.5 m: Cat 2, 1 pilot by day, 2 at night
• 4.5–5 m: Cat 3, 2 pilots
• 5–11 m: Cat 4A, 3 pilots, purple lights
• Over 11 m: Cat 4B, 3 pilots, plus a route engineering check

*Unless the load crosses the centre-line.

Long or overhanging? Over 25 m long, or any overhang over 7 m, puts you in Cat 2 or higher, even if you're narrow.

Pilot numbers are minimums. Your permit rules. Save this for your crew 👇

Source: VDAM Rule 2016, Schedule 6; cl 6.33–6.35, 6.46.
Always follow road conditions, follow permit conditions. This is not legal advice.

28/09/2026

Planning oversize moves around Labour weekend next month? Save this post.

When overdimension loads must NOT travel, Fri 23 – Mon 26 Oct:

CAT 1
• Fri + Mon: no travel in city areas 7–9am & 4–6pm
• Sat + Sun: no travel 10am–1pm & 4–7pm

CAT 2
• Fri: city areas 7–9am & 4–6pm
• Sat: 10am–1pm & 4–7pm
• Sun: 10am–1pm, then nothing from 4pm
• Mon (Labour Day): no travel at all

CAT 3
• Fri: in city areas not 6:30–9am or after 4pm; outside city areas not after 6pm
• Sat: in city areas 5am–12pm only; outside city areas 5am–12pm & 4–6pm only
• Sun + Mon: no travel

CAT 4
• Fri: before 6:30am only (Zone 3 can also travel 9am–4pm)
• Sat, Sun, Mon: no travel

⚠️ HAWKE'S BAY STARTS EARLY ON THURSDAY:
Fri 23 Oct is Hawke's Bay's anniversary holiday, so restrictions there start on Thursday 22 Oct:
• Cat 2: no travel from 4pm Thursday until midnight Friday
• Cat 3 in Napier/Hastings & all Cat 4: no travel from 6:30am Thursday until midnight Friday
• Cat 3 elsewhere in Hawke's Bay: no travel Friday (check your permit for Thursday)
• From Saturday, the Labour weekend rules above apply

All categories also can't travel when traffic is unusually heavy.

Summary of the VDAM Rule 2016 (cl 6.20–6.27, Schedules 9 & 10). Your permit may add conditions, so check it.

27/09/2026

5:00am is a sleep in for drivers some days... or the time they're getting home from an overnight load.

Pre-start check. Signs up. Lights tested. Radio check with the truck.

By the time most people are having their first coffee, drivers have already had 3...

What time does your day start? 👇

27/09/2026

Most drivers think I'm there to slow them down.

I'm actually there to stop you meeting 5 metres of house on a blind corner.

When you see a pilot vehicle coming, here's all I need from you:
👉 Slow down early
👉 Pull as far left as it's safe to
👉 Stop if you need to, and wait for the load.

(It's the law, by the way: not making way for a pilot vehicle is a $150 fine.)

That's it. Small part of your day, and everyone gets home.

What's the one thing you've never understood about pilot vehicles? Ask me anything below 👇

25/09/2026

Drivers will often assume the load pilot is in charge & fully responsible for what happens on the road. But unless a different on-road supervisor’s been named, that’s backwards - by law, the responsibility falls back on the driver.

That doesn’t mean the road’s yours, though. OD loads don’t own the road - it’s a team effort out there, even when it doesn’t feel like it with oncoming traffic bearing down on you.

That’s why this needs to be a conversation before the load moves - not assumed, not left to whoever speaks up first on the day. Every load’s case by case, and pilot roles can shift depending on the job. But if the on-road supervisor role hasn’t been discussed, it’s on the driver by default.

Our checklist puts that conversation in front of your operator pre-trip - signage, lighting, who’s responsible for what. And it saves straight to your profile, so if anything happens out there, you’ve got a clear record everyone knew where they stood before the wheels turned.

Prepped beats sorry, every time.

📲 Get on the HAULR waitlist with over 300+ drivers. Comment “HAULR” we will personally send you the waitlist link.

21/09/2026

The job HAULR was built to support.

When telling people about the app, we’ve had the conversation of it being very niche.

That is the point. The core of HAULR & our plans after launching are niche, niche to support OD operators.

The next thing is to support truck drivers around New Zealand. Which all parts of HAULR does.

The exciting part that isn’t niche, is anyone can jump on HAULR once launched. You don’t have to be a load pilot, a truck driver - it’s here to support road working crews waiting to see when that 9 metre wide house is coming through.

Support motorhome users that the height of their motorhome is a bit too high & get caught out around the country. It happens. Tinwald Bridge. Ashburton - too many times.

So while HAULR is niche for where we are from in the industry, it’s here to support more than our OD operators.

We are close, we are excited.

Comment “HAULR” to join over 300+ drivers already on the wait list.

19/09/2026

Entered our giveaway? Tag away 🤳🏼

HAULR GIVE AWAY 📲 HAULR JERSEY + FUEL GIFT CARD

We’re giving away to 1 HAULR jersey + $100 fuel voucher as we lead up to the launch of our app.

HOW TO ENTER:
✅ Follow + like this post
✅ Tag a mate below (tag as many times for extra entries.)
✅ Get on our wait list via the link in our bio for an additional entry.

Drawn 7PM Sunday 27th September.

18/09/2026

HAULR GIVE AWAY 📲 HAULR JERSEY + FUEL GIFT CARD

We’re giving away to 1 HAULR jersey + $100 fuel voucher as we lead up to the launch of our app.

HOW TO ENTER:
✅ Follow + like this post
✅ Tag a mate below (tag as many times for extra entries.)
✅ Get on our wait list via the link in our bio for an additional entry.

Drawn 7PM Sunday 27th September.