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robroy:
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 [zb] 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’’ daysThat’s better I’ve had a moan for the day
, off to buy a Sun crossword book.
You are right you need to get a life
Is the other half that bad company, or were you going on your own just saying like
Everyone to there own but I know it can be boring on your own well so iv heard
Just saying like
dieseldog999:
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+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.
I think one of the problems which T&D faces is the fact that we don’t do all of those long European trips any more like we did in the 1980s. The job just isn’t interesting any more.
I mean, how animated can you get about a trip from Corby to Thurrock?
I’ve not read T&D for years and stopped buying it when they started filling all of the blank space between the adverts with reviews of Waylon Jennings albums and Vauxhall Movano vans.
nightline:
robroy:
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.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 !!
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’’ daysThat’s better I’ve had a moan for the day
You are right you need to get a life
Is the other half that bad company, or were you going on your own just saying like
Everyone to there own but I know it can be boring on your own well so iv heard
Just saying like
Aye that’s about right bud, on me jack, no mates tbh, and never any success with women, .despite me looking the biz in my polyester slacks, v.neck, shirt and tie, topped off with a beige crimplene safari jacket.
Can’t understand it, women today just don’t want to hear about Eaton twin splitters 
, so it’s crosswords and suduko every time for me. 
Hey…just thought, you could accompany me next time, we could be new bezzie mates. 
Harry Monk:
dieseldog999:
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+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.I think one of the problems which T&D faces is the fact that we don’t do all of those long European trips any more like we did in the 1980s. The job just isn’t interesting any more.
I mean, how animated can you get about a trip from Corby to Thurrock?
I’ve not read T&D for years and stopped buying it when they started filling all of the blank space between the adverts with reviews of Waylon Jennings albums and Vauxhall Movano vans.
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your quite correct there.
the euro work has gone.
theres little cameradrie left due to laptops,dvds,in cab comforts.
the uk is completely truck unfriendly for parking ect.
years ago factories worked 8-5 so if you couldnt get tipped or loaded you went down the docks,or local truckie area,found a playmate,then went to the pub to find some more local playmates.
getting bladdered and waking up in some tarts hose trying to imagine where you are in relatio to where you remember parking up was an optional hazzard.
nowadays its tosco and stobrats type of isotracked to death,dont think for yourself,just work to suit the risk assessment work for all the newer breed of snowflakes which makes the job as interesting as another episode of stobart tv.
( nigel has 1 delivery to make in nottingham,he is leaving crick with only 8 hours driving time left and he has to take a break). theres a 15 min delay on the m1 ad things are looking a bit dicey sofar with the planner having dropped his coffee over the keyboard.
all the rdc staff including the gateman,forkies,and the office staff are really pleased to see him and all come out to wave him goodbye and to video him going out the gate in case he runs ver any of the eddie spotters,but what will he do when he gets back to the yard and finds someone has ■■■■ in the front seat of his car becaise he is a prick.
thats about as interesting as it gets on the telly,so what chance has a magazine got nowadays.
theres not a great deal of specialist trucking left nowadays to write about.
if you wanted to do the middle east or europe years ago,you could always blag a job and go and try it.
dd999, were you the scriptwriter for that load of tosh…
Or…since he has what appears to be a lot of inside knowledge 
Beau Nydel:
Or…since he has what appears to be a lot of inside knowledge
now that would be funny if it turned out to be true… c’mon dd999 own up.
perish the thought…apart from stobrats dont run out of northern ireland.( the green lorries would upset half of the locals)
ive seen about 15 mins of 1 episode,and about 4 or 5 mins f another 2 episodes…i never saw the rest as they were just too pathetic and painful to watch.
i saw more happy goods in staff in that 25 mins than ive seen in about 40 years of driving.
its hard to believe some of the pathetic snowflakes that go through the motions of driving nowadays with what you read in here.
even ice road truckies was ok fr most of the first season,it went ■■■■ up (literaly) when they had to invent ice road lisa to be doing the same job,so how hard can it be?
im expecting the next season to be ice road red indian african american ( insert your own not pc and uncensored equivelant name here) ex nam vet in a wheelchair…sad.innit??
glad to hear it dd. I don’t watch any that you mentioned but I think the aussie one’s aren’t too bad…
ringfur:
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m.a.n rules:
glad to hear it dd. I don’t watch any that you mentioned but I think the aussie one’s aren’t too bad…
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+1 there,the oz one is the most interesting i would think…stobarts efforts are just for the anoraks and spotters to cream their jeans at without leaving the safety of their own bedrooms.
Harry Monk:
dieseldog999:
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+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.I think one of the problems which T&D faces is the fact that we don’t do all of those long European trips any more like we did in the 1980s. The job just isn’t interesting any more.
I mean, how animated can you get about a trip from Corby to Thurrock?
I’ve not read T&D for years and stopped buying it when they started filling all of the blank space between the adverts with reviews of Waylon Jennings albums and Vauxhall Movano vans.
The mag I worked on didn’t do LDDs as such, because they were a Truck / Truck & Driver thing.
Apart from the difficulties of finding an interesting enough run now, you also have to find a writer who is prepared to spend several days getting the story together, and a driver who is happy to have him along for the ride, and get in the way and cause delays taking pics etc.
You then have the petty-minded reader who will go thought the whole story trying to find evidence that the driver might have gone over his hours, or broken a speed limit by 0.5 km/h.
The last (and best) one I commissioned involved Astran driver Chris Hooper, who let slip that he kept a diary for every trip. I said to him, just write done what you felt/thought at the time as well as what you did, and take a photograph of anything and everything you see that catches your eye on the way. He got his wife to key his diary into her computer on his return, and we turned it into a couple of articles, which went down really well with the readers.
He reckoned the fee for the stories was nearly as good as the profit from the trip, too!
Sadly, the magazine I worked for was sold to a company which specialised in what they called ‘managed decline’. This meant slashing the editorial budget so the quality of the magazine fell. In the intervals between the budget being cut and the readers deciding that the mag was no longer worth buying, they increased their profits. Then the readership declined and the advertisers noticed that no one was buying the magazine, so the revenues dropped. As soon as that happened they sold it to another publisher for a very good price, as it was ‘so profitable’.
Glad I walked away when I did.
dieseldog999:
Harry Monk:
dieseldog999:
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+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.I think one of the problems which T&D faces is the fact that we don’t do all of those long European trips any more like we did in the 1980s. The job just isn’t interesting any more.
I mean, how animated can you get about a trip from Corby to Thurrock?
I’ve not read T&D for years and stopped buying it when they started filling all of the blank space between the adverts with reviews of Waylon Jennings albums and Vauxhall Movano vans.
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getting bladdered and waking up in some tarts hose
Nothing wrong with a bit of CD’ing DD, so they tell me…
You saw more of that bloody Stobbie telly tosh than i could stomach, Jesus wept it was just painful.
Juddian:
You saw more of that bloody Stobbie telly tosh than i could stomach, Jesus wept it was just painful.
I did quite enjoy watching that Fiona talking about a big creamy mess inside her back doors. 
Harry Monk:
Juddian:
You saw more of that bloody Stobbie telly tosh than i could stomach, Jesus wept it was just painful.I did quite enjoy watching that Fiona talking about a big creamy mess inside her back doors.
Ye Gods, i’ll have nightmares tonight 
and i haven’t a clue what sort of person (have to be careful these days of mixed genders and though police) Fiona is 
m.a.n rules:
https://images.app.goo.gl/crfMtWxQb1yTYZ378there you go juddian that’s Fiona…
Gutted! Not the video I saw of her err playing the oboe! The one she desperately attempted to get banned.
the maoster:
m.a.n rules:
https://images.app.goo.gl/crfMtWxQb1yTYZ378there you go juddian that’s Fiona…
Gutted! Not the video I saw of her err playing the oboe! The one she desperately attempted to get banned.
I give in with you maoster….
Very good