GITI Tyres Big Test
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GITI Tyres Big Test: Modern Marvel 

With major HEB Construction projects rampingup across the country, the company’s Heavy Haulage division has recently acquired some new muscle so it can deliver big machinery to the right place at the right time.

One of the newcomers is Nightcrawler, a Volvo FH16 700 6x4 tractor unit which is purpose-built to 180t heavy haul specification.

The Volvo works throughout New Zealand driven by Whakatane’s Rex Stephens, who has already clocked up 24,000km while shifting cr...

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