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GITI Tyres Big Test
      Iveco S-Way 570 AS 6x4   Story Colin Smith Photos Gerald Shacklock

GITI Tyres Big Test - High Tech, Low Ride

An innovative Kiwi trailer design has found a European workmate in one of the first new generation Iveco S-Way models to go on the road in New Zealand. With its eye-catching blue, silver and white livery, Horotiu-based Hanes Transport is creating some interest on Kiwi highways with its new Iveco S-Way 570 6x4 towing a one-of-a-kind Hanes-TRT 3-axle widening forklift semi-trailer.

The 570-horsepower engine sits at the top of the new generation S-Way line-up which also in...

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