Giti Tyres Big Test

GITI Tyres Big Test: Fresh Produce
Fresh produce is the Big Test theme this month – and it’s of equal relevance to the cargo and the new truck doing the work.
FAW is New Zealand’s newest heavy-duty truck brand. The acronym is short for First Automotive Works – which explains the prominent number one on the company logo framed by the wings of a hawk.
And like the majority of new brands appearing in the automotive industry over recent years, the manufacturing source is The People’s Republic of China.
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...
GITI Tyres Big Test - Triple Duty
Transporter, tanker or tipper. Innovative design ideas and wide-ranging versatility have the new Earthworx Scania R 620 set-up for triple-duty efficiency.
The 10-week-old 6x4 Scania christened Swede As mainly works as a tractor unit shifting construction machinery around Northland. It’s teamed with a new MTC Equipment 3-axle gooseneck low loader working for the Ruakaka-based Earthworx and Roadtec companies of Hans and Tania Garton.
Earthworx Civil Construction was e...