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GITI Tyres Big Test
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GITI Tyres Big Test; The heartbeat of the Horsepower

The three digits carried on the badges immediately raise high expectations. And it’s only a few minutes into our Big Test before the truck starts confirming its capability.

I’ve climbed into the passenger seat of a new Volvo FH16 780 for the first time near Rainbow Mountain to join Self Loader Logging day shift driver Andy Southgate from Taupo.

It’s early on a mid-December morning and Andy finds a gap in the State Highway 5 traffic to turn right. The bl...

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Aeolus Truck & Driver News

Final sealing to complete Desert Road rebuild
Travel through the centre of the North Island requires some advance planning at present as a series of overnight road closures are in place for State Highway 1 (SH1) Desert Road until Monday March ...

Toll or tax?

Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand

Toll or tax?
More Kiwis are going to be using toll roads, as the Coalition Government directs NZTA to consider tolling all new Roads of National Significance around the country, from Canterbury to Northland.

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Advantage Tyres Fleet Focus

Advantage Tyre Solutions Fleet Focus; Passing the Parcels
Mitch McLachlan followed his father into bricklaying,but he didn’t stay on the tools for very long.

Instead, he changed career direction into the transport industry in 1981 to drive a courier van...


Southpac Legends

Logging Legend – Bevan Satherley
Few names in New Zealand’s logging industry carry the same weight as Bevan Satherley.

As the owner of one of Hawke’s Bay’s most recognisable log transport operations, Satherley Logging, Bevan has...


Recently Registered

A slow start to 2026
The first release of new truck and trailer registration monthly data for 2026 confirms a slow start across the New Zealand market.

Both new truck and new trailer registration totals for January 2...


Double Coin Imaging Awards

Expertly Krafted Euro for Heikell Transport
The bold green and grey colour scheme of Heikell Transport (1993) Ltd has just hit the road on the company’s first modern Iveco full-size livestock unit.The new Iveco S-Way 570 8x4 is being driv...

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