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GITI Tyres Big Test - Heavy Metal

The six tall chimney stacks at the old Meremere Power Station which were roughly a half-way landmark during the Hamilton-Auckland journeys of my childhood have long gone.

But appropriately there is a pair of tall metal stacks awaiting us in the grounds of the former coal-fired power station on the morning of this month’s New Zealand Truck & Driver Giti Tyres Big Test.

They belong to the new Nikau Contractors Kenworth T909 heavy haul unit, built to a custom specification and rat...

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