The trouble with Truck and Driver is that so many of the articles seem to have been written by someone called “Phil Spaceup”.
How many of us are in the market for a Vauxhall Astra van in any given month?
How many of us are interested in the latest CD by “Texas Tom and the Hillbillies”?
Etc etc etc
I on occasions buy the French mag ‘France Routes’ or ‘Les Routiers’ and despite struggling with some of the words,they’re foreign,the mags seem to be
well directed towards French driver interests.Great photography,quality paper and subjects of great interest is it worth 5 euros/£4.50 probably…now and again.
Limeyphil makes a good point regarding truck tests. They don’t say which is better anymore, just a namby pamby “well if this was…or if that was”…Is there a reason for this?
NathanB:
Limeyphil makes a good point regarding truck tests. They don’t say which is better anymore, just a namby pamby “well if this was…or if that was”…Is there a reason for this?
Because as is evident sometimes with the way the forum is run they are terrified of upsetting anyone, well, any business.
Yes, it’s like when they do reviews on transport companies from a drivers perspective, they are all wonderful to work for, even the ones who pay buttons and couldn’t run straight if they were on rails. 
Didn’t a mag criticize one of the last ERF models pre MAN and some toys got thrown?
Quoting Bob Beech here from Truck on Trial, Trucking mag:
“Given the choice we would probably go for the Volvo, but the Daf is a very good all rounder…If it was specced to match the FMX it might just get our vote.”
So we’re still none the wiser as to which 8w tipper is better then…
Haven’t read British truck mag’s for a while, although I do get a Dutch truck mag every month (Truckstar)…
i buy the odd mag
yes to Shobba
but as its been said the jobs less interesting than it was
difficult to do 12 LDDs now
given up reading truck magazines since im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year cant see the point
peewee:
given up reading truck magazines since im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year cant see the point
On that basis, I should never’ve bought that Titanic book last week as I wont be sailing on it…
No more shobba !
Hope they can find a decent replacement.
NathanB:
peewee:
given up reading truck magazines since im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year cant see the pointOn that basis, I should never’ve bought that Titanic book last week as I wont be sailing on it…
is that some ■■■■ poor attempt at humour?
peewee:
NathanB:
peewee:
given up reading truck magazines since im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year cant see the pointOn that basis, I should never’ve bought that Titanic book last week as I wont be sailing on it…
is that some ■■■■ poor attempt at humour?
No it is actually a pretty good attempt at humour 
I chuckled when I read it anyway 
Van tests are totally necessary in a magazine, if the vans aren’t being tested then everybody in the office would have to start hiring them when they need to move stuff about, they also save putting lots of miles on journo’s/tester’s personal vehicles 
Totally agree about the music reviews though, no point in them whatsoever
Testing is not what Trucking does, that was always done in TRUCK, CM and Motor Transport, they were comparitive tests and the testers were allowed to call a spade a spade, for instance I did a trans Euro Test between a Daf, MAN and Renault, the MAN won on points, but I thought the Daf was the better lorry, so it won and that’s exactly what went in the magazine. Jack Semple when Editor of TRUCK once incurred the wrath of IVECO by putting a shot of an IVECO 190-32 on the front cover with the strapline ‘NOISY’ and in the test he totally ripped it to shreds, all kinds of metaphoric 'sleeping with the fishes ’ threats came from Turin, they pulled their advertising and threatened legal action, but soon came cap in hand when they started launching the EuroTech as they wanted and needed the coverage, so in no way are the magazines beholden to the manufacturers
peewee:
NathanB:
peewee:
given up reading truck magazines since im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year cant see the pointOn that basis, I should never’ve bought that Titanic book last week as I wont be sailing on it…
is that some ■■■■ poor attempt at humour?
Why were you steering it?
turnip:
No more shobba !
Hope they can find a decent replacement.
Didn’t know that, is he not doing T&D cartoons any more?
Harry Monk:
turnip:
No more shobba !
Hope they can find a decent replacement.Didn’t know that, is he not doing T&D cartoons any more?
No apparently not. There’s going to be some sort of special in a coming edition of t&d then it’s all over.
peewee:
im not allowed a hgv licence till end of next year
why?
turnip:
No apparently not. There’s going to be some sort of special in a coming edition of t&d then it’s all over.
I wonder why, he’s been doing them for years. I’m sure they were in T&D back in the 80s.
Harry Monk:
turnip:
No apparently not. There’s going to be some sort of special in a coming edition of t&d then it’s all over.I wonder why, he’s been doing them for years. I’m sure they were in T&D back in the 80s.
They need the space for “spotlight on spotlights”…
He’s retiring ! There’s a piece in t&d. Says he’s been doing it for 20 years.
There will be a 16 page “classic” shobba in June issue ! Might be worth Avin a look.