As you may seen most of the DVV road transport titles have been sold , this forum has died since the move to the new platform, I stepped back from TruckNet a good few years ago but as the founder it has always been important to me… myself and Lucy are trying to make a decision. Can we resurrect it? this platform doesnt work- and to be honest we dont have the cash to move all the content to a more useable platform- so I think I am asking how many of you would be willing to start from scratch.. It would be under the same rules we always run it back in the day Harsh but I always believed fair- think we are willing to give it a go- but two things maybe be the block w,hether the new owners will let it go and most importantly whether you guys are willing to start again- I know we will be losing a huge amount from a clean sheet start up- all that content you have put in over the years - but if we are to save TruckNet and keep it running I dont see any other way- your thoughts before we make any decision we want to be guided by you the users
How about a small subscription and take the whole show, of course if the new owners allow it.
It is the vast store of archival content on these threads that have kept me going since TN2 restarted.
I often spend hours delving into threads to find content posted by past experts - and I mean experts. Fortunately, I started making a habit some years ago of cutting-and-pasting vital info onto Word docs, which I still have. The data base will be a massive loss to future transport historians. Many of the contributors of just twenty years ago have died and their stories and pictures will be gone forever. I can see your dilemma and god knows what I’d do in your place! But it would be the electronic equivalent of ERF/MAN dumping all the archives in a skip (which they more or less did).
Sorry to sound so downbeat but I suspect that if you crank TN back up as a chat ‘venue’, without its stored culture and references, you’ll just end up with RDC waiting-room gossip and little else - and with a very small group of regulars.
Good luck, whatever you decide. Nothing can take away from the fact that TNUK has been a great place to share transport pictures and stories over the years.
Ro
How many regulars contribute currently, how many would return if the format was easier to navigate?
What would it cost to aquire the database and host it?
One of my core values when I started it- was that TruckNet UK woiud always be free to the user and that is one thing I would carry forward
Its not the database its converting it back to PHpBB thats with huge database is simply unfordable
That was a similar value to another forum, of which I am a member, but when the owner suddenly became life-threateningly ill, he realised upon his death the forum would go with him.
Reluctantly, he introduced a tiered subscription, with the entry sub costing less than a cup of coffee a month.
Admittedly, it was a bigger forum.
Happy to continue this conversation per PM, if you think it may help.
It would be nice to bring it back to it’s former glory, but we lost quite some valuable members over the years in the “Oldtimer” section unfortunately.
If switching to yet another platform means that all those very informative posts, and the craic (the Saviem thread is a good example), are going to end up in the bin, I’d rather leave it as it is.
If you can save the database, the move to another platform is do-able . My forum moved from vBulletin software to xenforo. The software is very easy to use, in fact my own forum uses it. I’m not trying to poach any members as it’s a well established pet forum so it’s a completely different genre of forum. Have a look and see what the members think of the layout and look of the forum. 
In fact, I’m sure xenforo advisers helped with the transfer if memory serves me right.
Would be good to revive the forum/return it to its roots. I’d warn that asking for a subscription could put off a lot of casual users who just like to check in for a view of what’s going on. Many expect ‘almost’ everything on the net to be ‘free’.
As long as you don’t use vBulletin software, it’s easy to hack as I found out! 
Reverting back to more traditional forum format would be great, but taking all the archive content would be a godsend. How unafordable is it? Are we talking hundreds? Thousands? Tens of thousands?