Thread: NZ towing laws and practices are making my head hurt, help!!??

I asked local mechanic how do boat trailers without brakes get certified in the first place when they clearly are going to be above 750kg when the boats on them.

His answer was that when they are certified they are are unladen and thus under 750kg therefore no problem. It's only a problem once you put a boat on them!

While most utes have a max tow rating of 3500kg in most cases you will be that close to the GVM limit that you can only take a cut lunch in the passenger seat.

What erks me is no one seems to care about the weight issue but dont' you dare drive down the road without your silly prop flag on! ffs