GITI Tyres Big Test
      MERCEDES-BENZ AROCS 1835 4x4   Story Brian Cowan Photos Gerald Shacklock

GITI Tyres Big Test - Super Spreader

Traditionally, the Mercedes-Benz Arocs has been aimed more at the European ‘vocational’ market – construction, mining, concrete mixing and the like.

But in its latest, fifth-generation guise the model’s scope has been broadened. It now has variants that cover roles as diverse as urban delivery through to the most brutal of off-road work. As a corollary, that has left the heavier Actros to be aimed more at the higher-power, long-distan...

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