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GITI Tyres Big Test; Southern Star
The brightest three-pointed star in the Clutha Valley Transport (CVT) fleet makes South Otago its home, but it gets the chance to shine across a big chunk of the Mainland.
The 8x4 Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3258L/52 configured as a 9-axle livestock unit went on the road in August 2024. When we caught up with the truck during the last days of the unusually mild autumn, it had already been hard at work clocking up 65,000km in about nine months.
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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...
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