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GITI Tyres Big Test - The Cattle Beast

The Tararua district provided dry cows and a rainy springtime morning for New Zealand Truck & Driver to try out the latest addition to the Beale Trucking fleet.

The 750hp Volvo FH 16 Globetrotter XL stock unit in the familiar red, black and silver livery of Beale Trucking is a work-in-progress for Regan and Toyah Beale’s Mangatainoka-based company.

Although the firm’s young driver Regan Taylor has been busy clocking up 10,000km in the Volvo across five weeks, t...

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