28/07/2026
HAULR APP
What we’ve been working on 📱🛠️
10 months ago I started contacting every council in New Zealand. One by one. 68 of them.
I asked for one thing: their bridge restriction data. Weight limits. Height clearances. The information that keeps trucks safe and bridges standing.
Most people don't know this, but there is no central database of bridge restrictions in New Zealand. None. The data sits in 68 separate council systems. Some publish it online. Most don't. Drivers have had no way to check every bridge on their route without calling around or relying on word of mouth.
So we’ve built the dataset ourselves. From scratch. This is also a job we have not taken lightly. We also did not want to launch a platform that only had certain regions to launch it faster, it had to cover as much ground far and wide as we could.
Every bridge in our system goes through a verification process:
1. Data requested directly from the council's roading or infrastructure team or using public information posted.
2. Cross-referenced against Waka Kotahi / NZTA records
3. Checked against LINZ and KiwiRail data
4. Validated against OpenStreetMap infrastructure mapping
5. Formatted, geo-located, and loaded into our system
This is not a crowdsourced app. This is not drivers guessing clearance heights.
We now hold over 2000+ bridge restriction records. We've built a council portal where our RCA data partners can log in, review their data, and update it anytime a restriction changes.
This is what the last 10 months has looked like. Thousands of emails. Hundreds of spreadsheets. Hours of processing.
The information we as founders have wanted when we’re on the roads. Between us, we have almost 2 decades in the transport industry. We have been on the sites, on the side of roads listening to the complaints and what drivers have picked apart of what they wish existed.
We complained too - until we decided enough was enough last year.
HAULR launches soon. The first comprehensive bridge restriction tool in New Zealand. Built from the cab, not from a boardroom.
More to come.
