Bridge ShieldBridge ShieldUpload your permits once. Bridge Shield reads every bridge restriction, plans a route that avoids anything you can't legally cross, flags what needs a pilot, and keeps the record to prove it.
Not a demo. Bridge Shield runs on real NZTA and district council permits — the exact PDFs your business already has on file — checked against real multi-region routes before it ever reached a live customer.
A single vehicle can operate under a dozen different permits, one per region, each with its own bridge list, speed limits, and expiry date. Cross the wrong one and you're looking at fines, bridge damage, or worse — and if it ever gets questioned, "we were pretty sure it was fine" isn't an answer. Bridge Shield reads the actual permit documents and turns them into a route you can trust, every time.
Four steps, the same every time — no manual bridge-checking, no relying on memory.
PDF in, structured bridge data out — coordinates, speed limits, lane position, expiry.
Enter a start and end point. The route is checked against every permit the vehicle holds.
Any Do Not Cross bridge is routed around automatically. Pilot-required bridges are flagged plainly.
Every restriction is on record, tied to its source permit — ready if it's ever questioned.
Every route decision traces straight back to the permit that caused it.
Real screenshots from a live trip -- not mockups.
The route is checked against every restriction before the driver leaves the yard -- every bridge crossed shows here.
Approaching a restricted bridge, the driver gets the exact speed and position required -- in advance, not a guess.
Every bridge on the route, colour-coded by restriction -- plus a one-tap exportable record to prove it.
Shortest route crossed a Do Not Cross bridge. Bridge Shield found a legal alternative via SH1 and SH26 automatically — no manual detour planning.
A bridge requiring a pilot vehicle was on the fastest route. Flagged clearly before departure, with a pilot-free alternative offered where one existed.
A trip crossing three separate council permits was checked against all of them at once — no bridge missed because it fell outside a single permit's area.
A planned route kept choosing a path straight through Hamilton's CBD instead of the Waikato Expressway — even with "Favour State Highways / Expressways" switched on. The cause: OpenStreetMap's own map data still tags Hamilton's old Anglesea/Collingwood/Ulster Street route as State Highway 1, a designation that moved to the expressway years ago but never got cleaned up in the underlying data. Bridge Shield's router now weighs a real motorway more heavily than a road that merely used to carry a highway's name, so the actual bypass wins — exactly the kind of local quirk that's easy to miss relying on memory or a generic map app.
One route plan, but it means something different depending on which seat you're in.
Bridge Shield didn't start as a software idea. It started on the side of the road, flipping through a stack of paper permits to work out if the bridge up ahead was actually still safe to cross — with a loaded crane sitting behind the cab and no easy way to check.
That's not a hypothetical. It's how heavy transport actually runs for a lot of operators in New Zealand right now: multiple regional permits per vehicle, bridges that change restrictions without warning, and a driver who has to make the call on the spot with whatever paperwork happens to be in the cab. Bridge Shield exists so that call is never a guess again.
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Chat on WhatsAppBridge Shield assists route planning based on the permits you provide — it doesn't replace your permit obligations, your council or NZTA conditions, or a driver's own judgement on the day.