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New Zealand Transport Agency Raises Light Trailer Towing Speed to 90km/hr

NZ Transport Agency (formerly known as Land Transport NZ and LTSA) announced that from February 27th 2005, the light trailer open road towing speed has been raised from 80km/hr to 90km/hr.

They have however decreased the discretionary excess speed allowance from 10km/hr to 5km/hr.

Click here to see exact details of this change which are set out on the NZ Transport Agency website. See questions under the heading "Carrying loads and towing " about half way down the page.

Click here to see The Road User Rule itself. The new 90 km/h speed limit is set out in section 5.4 "Speed limits for vehicles towing other vehicles".