GITI Tyres Big Test
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GITI Tyres Big Test: Against the Wind

This truck is shaped by wind tunnel design and is often working fully loaded into the real world equivalent – a southerly blasting off Foveaux Strait and head-on into anything travelling on the final southern stretch of State Highway 1.

Two new Freightliner Cascadia 126 Day Cab 6x4s have recently been added to the Southland-based King’s Log Transport (KLT) fleet.

Their “chip liner” task is a simple and repetitive one – a 35km round trip, typically 10 times a day...

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