Giti Tyres Big Test | Quality in the quarry
Giti Tyres Big Test: Quality in the quarry
Tom McGoverin leans back in the driver's seat and sighs happily: "Now this is what I call a top-class workplace."
We're midway through a circuit of the Isaac Construction quarry at McLeans Island, just northwest of Christchurch, and Tom is at the wheel of the first Iveco-Astra HHD9 dumptruck in New Zealand.
The first, but quite likely far from the last, because this tall-standing heavy-duty 8x6 is being promoted as a more comfortable and profitable alternati...
Giti Tyres Big Test | Quality in the quarry
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