GITI Tyres Big Test: Modern Marvel 

With major HEB Construction projects rampingup across the country, the company’s Heavy Haulage division has recently acquired some new muscle so it can deliver big machinery to the right place at the right time.

One of the newcomers is Nightcrawler, a Volvo FH16 700 6x4 tractor unit which is purpose-built to 180t heavy haul specification.

The Volvo works throughout New Zealand driven by Whakatane’s Rex Stephens, who has already clocked up 24,000km while shifting cr...

GITI Tyres Big Test: Freedom Highway

Very few New Zealand main routes demand as much from a truck and a driver as State Highway 2 between Napier and Gisborne.

The 215km run includes narrow gorges and tight corners, ever-changing gradients, and a wide variety of surface quality – all of which were taken into consideration by Freedom Transport’s Samreet (Sam) Virdi when he needed a new truck for a double-shifted Palmerston North to Gisborne grocery run.

Sam wanted his drivers – and himself for the occasions when he’s behind the...

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.

The detail of the model designation...