I’ve bought this thing on and off from about 1984 when I was actually interested in trucks.
Nowadays I only buy it if I’m doing something like waiting for a truck service or summet,.and only for the big crossword (and word search puzzle that my Dad does when I pass it on), as it normally takes me well over an hour to complete. , so puts the time in…plus I COULD win 25 notes, but unlikely.
I’m flying off tomorrow so I thought… boring flight, T&D crossword put a couple of hours in, job sorted.
NO crossword in this edition !! , and to add insult to injury it’s a special edition on becoming an owner driver,.and filled out with trucking in Australia dog crap…4 ■■■■ quid down the Gary Glitter. …
Does anybody else think this mag is past it’s sell by date, and overpriced.and not as good as the ‘‘Shobba’s Trucking types’’ days
That’s better I’ve had a moan for the day , off to buy a Sun crossword book. …and to (before someone says it) get a life.
Some of the articles on owner drivers are absolute bull ,who wants to read about some ZB that leases a unit to pull some others trailer parks in a rented space in some others yard ,then it moves on to who blows the tyres ,some body else wash’s it a 3rd bloke changes the oil ect ect ect it goes on and on what a load of crap .
A bit like the newspapers, months of pages about Brexit, then Notre Dame goes up in flames so 10 plus pages of that then the eco-warriors. No doubt the unusual Easter weather will be the next big feature in the papers next week.
Very little to read if those subjects don’t appeal to you.
If there was something decent to read in the press I wouldn’t be wasting my time writing this garbage.
Did have a complete set from number one once upon a time but haven’t bought it for around 30+ years, since Pat Kennett passed away really. Won’t bother getting it now, it wont fit our Parrot cage anyway.
windrush:
Did have a complete set from number one once upon a time but haven’t bought it for around 30+ years, since Pat Kennett passed away really. Won’t bother getting it now, it wont fit our Parrot cage anyway.
Pete.
I reckon I’ll have the first edition along with 100s of others on the loft, …I’ll bequeath them to my kids.
Update…found a 2002 edition with a blank crossword for the flight.
Truck mags aren’t relevant to my job (how often do you see features on class 2 chilled/frozen multi drop?). I haven’t bought a classic truck mag in about 12 months and a “modern” one in a lot longer. They’re so predictable too, £4 odd for a few adverts and a centre spread of another Scania covered in fairy lights, no thank you.
I also son’t need to read “truck on trial” articles anymore as my firm buy nothing but Mercedes Ategos.
Muckaway:
Truck mags aren’t relevant to my job (how often do you see features on class 2 chilled/frozen multi drop?). I haven’t bought a classic truck mag in about 12 months and a “modern” one in a lot longer. They’re so predictable too, £4 odd for a few adverts and a centre spread of another Scania covered in fairy lights, no thank you.
I also son’t need to read “truck on trial” articles anymore as my firm buy nothing but Mercedes Ategos.
The same applies to the passenger transport magazines.
I haven’t read a trucking magazine for years now, even though up until the start of this year I had a monthly column in one! I got over the thrill of having something published a long time ago. I did flick through T&D and Trucking the last time I was in the UK and there was nothing to excite me enough to buy them in either, T&D hasn’t changed much really, it’s always been about the blinged up lorry and the content has never been intended to satisfy the lorry nerd (me) but Trucking has gone downhill in a big way, despite it being a competitor in my TRUCK mag days, I always found it a good read when Richard Simpson was at the helm.
As for the classic magazines, half the lorries in them are newer than the old crap I had when I first started driving, so I don’t see them as classics or vintage, so they’re of no interest to me either.
It’s such a shame as I really looked forward to TRUCK magazine hitting the shelves as a kid, I’ve still got a few old copies from the 70s and they’re as interesting now as they were when they were published.
waddy640:
A bit like the newspapers, months of pages about Brexit, then Notre Dame goes up in flames so 10 plus pages of that then the eco-warriors. No doubt the unusual Easter weather will be the next big feature in the papers next week.
Very little to read if those subjects don’t appeal to you.
If there was something decent to read in the press I wouldn’t be wasting my time writing this garbage.
Happy Easter everyone.
Try a rather nifty publication called -The Week,absolutely superb format,gathering everything in all the worlds top newspapers and plenty more besides.Trust me,it’s awesome.
t&d is just flogging a dead horse now for the past good few years.
i might peek for 30 secs from a newstand to remind myself its just now boring,but thats it…whereas…stacksandcracks never seems to get old or fail to keep my attention somehow…
T&D was getting a bit better since Dougie took over and this month is a total revamp. Decent amount of old and new items and more input from drivers, whether you consider that good or bad is up to you.
Trucking Int though, jeez!
I used to like the truck v truck reviews but nowadays they don’t give a definitive verdict; It’s as if they don’t want to upset a manufacturer.
I also think that what the drivers say is made up. I’ve never heard tipper drivers speak in the terms quoted in the magazines.
I think that all specialist magazines have the same problem. When I started taking an interest in computers, back in the 80s, the mags were full of useful informative stuff, with a floppy disk stuck on the front with a free game, or even something useful like the original Norton Recovery disk.
As time went on they became repetitive and reviews were often a regurgitated version of the manufacturers own publicity. The free disks became full of cut down programs that you had to buy if you wanted them to work and they just got boring. I still bought the odd one if I saw something that looked interesting, but that was it.
Truck magazines have the same problem; there just isn’t enough new stuff to fill the pages. Celeb mags can manage by printing the endless stream of drivel about what some second-string actress has for breakfast, but rucks don’t really change much these days and anything you can think of has probably been written about already anyway. They don’t even have the endless stream of new legislation that we used to get 20 years ago.
Harry Monk:
I used to love the Long Distance Diaries when I was starting out, I don’t know if T&D still do these?
hell yeah first thing I used to read .Sometimes have a rye smile about how the “centre page” company was all shiny motors and great money, great ,family company(usually the adams family)
and you knew the drivers were on a “mars bar and a can o coke a day” worked 23 hrs a day and had to polish the motor before they finally were allowed to go home for a night , the phone rang before their clothes were out o the washing machine…hehe.
Harry Monk:
I used to love the Long Distance Diaries when I was starting out, I don’t know if T&D still do these?
hell yeah first thing I used to read .Sometimes have a rye smile about how the “centre page” company was all shiny motors and great money, great ,family company(usually the adams family)
and you knew the drivers were on a “mars bar and a can o coke a day” worked 23 hrs a day and had to polish the motor before they finally were allowed to go home for a night , the phone rang before their clothes were out o the washing machine…hehe.
^^^^^^^^
+1
they were the dogs doodahs.
i lapped them up even after the reality of doing the same job myself turned out somewhat differently to what id read.
, so puts the time in…plus I COULD win 25 notes, but unlikely.
, and to add insult to injury it’s a special edition on becoming an owner driver,.and filled out with trucking in Australia dog crap…4 ■■■■ quid down the Gary Glitter. 
, off to buy a Sun crossword book. 