with great sadness i bought a copy of the last mag yesterday
i have to say i was disappointed with the contents,a thin last edition with no highlights of its past except a small picure of a euro test line up
the mag is a great loss but i`m afraid it went out with a wimper instead of a bang
jon
last edition not out yet i thought
Last edition was out on the 20th of August Hitch.
jon boy 100:
with great sadness i bought a copy of the last mag yesterday
i have to say i was disappointed with the contents,a thin last edition with no highlights of its past except a small picure of a euro test line up
the mag is a great loss but i`m afraid it went out with a wimper instead of a bang
jon
It is now public knowlege that the final issue was heavily cut. The publishers did not want to glorify its closure. 36 pages of tributes were removed and a 2005 calender wallchart. This is why the magazine is so thin. A story about this appeared in last week’s Press Gazette.
I think this is desperately sad and an undignified end to a fantastic magazine.
spot-on:
jon boy 100:
with great sadness i bought a copy of the last mag yesterday
i have to say i was disappointed with the contents,a thin last edition with no highlights of its past except a small picure of a euro test line up
the mag is a great loss but i`m afraid it went out with a wimper instead of a bang
jon
I think this is desperately sad and an undignified end to a fantastic magazine.
here,here
i thought it had been cut by the powers that be 
shame on them
jon
I’m just back from the newsagents and the fact i was picking TRUCK from the shelf for the last time was made even sadder by the thickness of it. 
i bought my copy last night and was also saddened by the content, not a grand finale by any means. where were all the memoirs of past exploits? the superb supertruck editions bought out around xmas most years in the seventies and eighties? i`d have paid a lot more for a final bumper issue… but £2.30 for 66 pages
I bought a copy must be a couple of weeks ago?, and didn’t look at the date ,before it was reported on Trucknet that it was closing, after reading this I looked out for "Bumper Final Issue.Found August issue in another newsagent flicked through it thinking i’ve read this before ,and realised I had in the bumper final issue which mentioned very little of it being the final issue.
A sad end definitely not much of a tribute to all the hard work put in by all the staff .
regards derek
Derek,- the issue you bought a few weeks ago must have been August 2004, as the very last issue only came out the middle of last week. - To be absolutely sure you (and anyone else reading this !)have bought the correct final, never to be repeated, last ever, potential future collector’s item,( 
) it has ’ September 2004 ’ at the top, and the words ‘Is it the end of the line ?’ at the bottom, on the front cover.
How ironic, eh ? - (the end of the line refers to an article inside, though, about Railfreight.) 
So long truck…dont this tell you that the whole deal is going down the pan…truck driving is a sinking ship and its a sad loss when we lose a voice.
Bully
someone PLEASE mail me a copy of the last one?
Allison Pell
Box 351
Minto
North Dakota 58261
USA
Please?
It’s in the post Alison
Many thanks mate. I owe you a pint or 3 when I get back.
Thanks Deesider,back to the newsagents!.regards derek
Of course, it looks like Reed is splitting the different things that Truck covered across the 3 other publications they own: Truck & Driver, Commercial Motor, and the other one. On top of that, each of these are weeklies, so now you’ll need to buy 12 magazines to get all the stuff you got in one!!
T&D isn’t a weekly, it’s monthly.