Apart from spells when I haven’t been to the UK for a while to buy them (though you could get Trucking in Sweden) I usually purchase both mags every month.
But I can’t help feeling lately that I’m paying twice for the same stories!
The last few months have been particularly bad with both mags running stories about the same trucks or companies.And now I see that Trucking next month is running a story on the same truck and company that was featured in this months’s T&D!
It seems a case of two mags chasing too few stories.
I did put forward a mate of mine who does regular Greece to perhaps be featured in a LDD type article,but no one seems interested.In days gone by,LDD was the most eagerly awaited bit of Truck magazine I read,there were LDD stories from all over the place from Hungarocamion to Willi-Betz to middle east stories.
It’s getting to the point now where I’ll only buy one or the other.
But which one?
It’s getting to the point now where I’ll only buy one or the other.
But which one?
It does really depend on your taste, I think that they do have a different style of writing…, esecialy on the reviews of trucks etc where T&D tend to write from a drivers point of view, whereas Trucking seems far more technical and focuses on the operators needs
I suppose if is really a True 50/50 choice for you and you want something to swing the balance… then watch the advertising banners and look at the forum sponsors and see which of the 2 magazines help us give you this space to ask this question…
Fair enough Rikki,I must admit I do tend to favour T&D,like you say they are more driver orientated.After all,I’m not really interested in torque curves and the like.
But I’d still like to see more LDD type stories (take note Mr Young!)
Sometimes pick up Truck and Driver, like the cartoons in the back page
I get fed up reading about X companys new truck and X companys special paint job, like fleet focus as its interesting to see what diffrent companys are like to work for and also what they are payed etc.
I do like the stories from the old fellas who in my mind were the real truckers, those who where first driving to the middle east and those sort of places, seem to remember a good story abut Ralph Davis drivers who were running to a place near the China border that was an interesting story.
Use to buy a mag now and then when I was a kid I think it was called Headlight or something similar, I blame that mag for putting me where I am now think it packed up sometime ago now.
i perfer truck and t&d to trucking
i only buy the latter if it has something interesting in
but they are still cheap and good value compared to car mags etc
jon
Imo, “Truck” is a pile of zebidee and tells the stories from a manufacturer point of view which is no interest to me.
I enjoy “T&D” but everything that’s posted on these forums appears in it apart from Shobba and Fleet Focus. I’ve noticed it seems to be getting thinner though . I feel that they should “up” the Fleet Focus to 2, maybe 3 reports a month as it would take years to get round them otherwise. The company featured in this months mag with the yellow motors I’ve never even heard of . I enjoyed the story about the trucks running for hundreds of miles on frozen lakes to the diamond mines and also the one last month about the marble mines in Italy up and down 1:4 hills and hairpins with a 15+ tonne lump of marble on the back .
As has been said, “Trucking” is more from an operator p.o.v., but it’s still interesting to read the stories. The mag is a lot fatter too but on closer inspection that’s probably because the last quarter is filled with back-load ads .
I agree that they are both chasing the same stories and I was angry to see that they’d both featured the Uncle Sams circus which wasn’t particularly interesting anyway.
rob are you seriously say you never heard of jack richards and have never seen his motors anywhere hes one of the biggest fleet on the country for flipps sake
T & D and Truck are the only ones I buy. I don’t buy them every month and when I do it is usually because something on the cover has caught my eye, such as the FH16 feature in Truck recently.
From when I was about 8 years old onwards, often feeling very annoyed at my long wait to be 21 and having to go to school instead of with my dad it was Long Distance Diaries that kept my spirits up, I’ve still got a stash of the old truck mags in my wardrobe from about 1993 onwards, I never bought every single one, only if something interested me but I cant remeber the last time I read a decent LDD. Even the journey to Afghanistan in ‘Truck’ seemed to be wrote in a sort of comical riddle style that spoiled the atmosphere of the intepid journey for me. LDD were definetly my favourite parts, I still remember well the stories of John Mann and Breda Transport going to Morocco.
I also remember the story about Ralf Davis that Suffolk Reeferboy is refering to, wasn’t it to Tashkent in Uzbekistan? And what about the Asia Tom stories? I wonder if that guy is still doing that?
When did ‘Trucking’ change its name from ‘Trucking International’ ■■?
being a tight person…it comes from me mothers side and got it from her uncle who was a scottish hill farmer, but married to a second cousin who hated the things, said they belonged in wales…anyway as i was saying…when in the services go to the magazine rack and browse through the truck mags and that way you get to read them all for nowt, and keep up with whats happening.but dont say i told you, cos i`ll get into trouble, just like me uncle billy who is on me dads side but got married to a hillbilly in kentucky and had to flee the country cos her brothers were after him, any road he settled in carmarthen but wondered why there were so many people in the fields with their trousers round their ankles late at night…but there i go waffling on again…now where was i ■■
have a nice day
. I feel that they should “up” the Fleet Focus to 2, maybe 3 reports a month as it would take years to get round them otherwise. The company featured in this months mag with the yellow motors I’ve never even heard of 
. I enjoyed the story about the trucks running for hundreds of miles on frozen lakes 
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