The past 12 months have seen tractor and machine makers achieve new world records for the most wheat harvested in eight hours, and the largest number of hectares sprayed and even drilled in 24 hours. Tyre manufacturers have been quick to get in on the act. Trelleborg supplied the tyres for Massey Ferguson’s successful 5,000km Antartica2 return trip to the South Pole, and Alliance Tire Group (ATG) supported the world-record manure spreading event in the Ukraine last year fitting the French-made Brochard Constructeur spreader with its A380 tyres. ATG is back in the news again and a truck shod with its A390 HD 560/60R22.5 tyres recently negotiated 50m-wide gullies, ice fields, rocks, stone slabs, sand and extreme inclines driving to the 6,675m summit of the Ojos del Salado volcano in the Chilean Andes. The world’s highest volcano and the second-highest mountain in South America, in reaching the top both truck and tyres set a new world height record. The truck is due to arrive back in Germany before the end of this month, and will be exhibited at a number of trade shows and events.