Giti Tyres Big Test

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...
GITI Tyres Big Test - Smooth and Chilled
The first chance for most Kiwis to get up close to a new Kenworth K220 came just over two years ago, either at the 2023 Bombay Truck Show or a few months later at the Wheels at Wanaka launch event.
Fast forward into 2025 and the stylish new generation Kenworth cab-over is already a fairly familiar sight at work on Kiwi highways.
New Zealand Truck & Driver has set out to sample a range of the K220 variants – our first Giti Tyres Big Test experience coming in Septemb...