Evening all, well the title says it all, why do we all keep" tuning in", (night, and day), For me…its you, my fellow contributors, whose experiences and knowledge far exceed my own! and are a delight to read about!! It is a real window on the , (Global), world, and I would not be without it for the world!!!
What are your reasons, and feelings, please let us all know. Cheerio for now.
Saviem, there s probably a wealth of reasons old times relived, boredom, a chance to argue, my point v yours who knows. No mention of Bollinger tonight, have you graduated to Veuve Cliquot. bon nuit mon ami . Crow.
I like tuning in for the old time lorries, some good old motors from years ago. 
I enjoy the crack, the fun of it all, especially when you know all about the person and he is talking crap. I can be anyone I like on here and frequently am
Wheel Nut:
I can be anyone I like on here and frequently am
And we’ve seen the pictures to prove it 
I started out on this site on this forum, looking at the old lorry pictures and reading the posts that accompanied them. I found the site after doing a google search for lorry pictures and I was soon hooked.
It became a useful source of info prior to my move to Canada and from speaking to people about that I made a few, what are now, very good friends 
This particular forum is my favourite by far, I love the threads like the Gardner one, some of the contributors to that thread are very knowledgeable, some not so much I have learned a lot from some of the contributors to this forum 
There’s also the Astran thread and of course Bubbleman’s fantastic scrapbook memories, there is so much to see that I’m not going to ponce around here anymore, I’ve going to play on the forum
Tell her it’s something to do with work.
I have been a lorry addict ever since I can remember.Brought up with a lorry driving dad in an isolated place.One mile to the nearest neighbour until we moved that mile into the village where I still live.Before I started school at five years old.I used to watch the lorries coming and going.So joining Trucknet was a natural thing to do with like minded people,who have varying opinions and experiences,but all with a connection to the haulage industry.
Trucknet is a way of keeping in the loop regarding the haulage industry,and I find it interesting hearing about other drivers experiences in the world of lorries.So for the last 3 years + I’ve been a Trucknet addict.
Cheers Dave.
I’m the same as Dave I used too go with my dad from an early age so thats what I really wanted to do when I left school. The trouble was that You used to be 21. When I eventually got my HGV I was like a dog with 2 tails ! But now I cant drive for medical reasons so this site is really good. Theres banter and facts and some good people on here . Tony
Hiya…just having a chat with like minded people.learning all the time. ive been into lorries since
the early 50,s when i was 3years old. rode with my uncles and later with drivers from the same street.
only yesterday i read that maudsley made a majestic (twin steer) i,ve never know about that untill yesterday.
theres one or two things that don,t always add up in my mine but thats humans.me been one of them.
in my book why watch c…p like east enders or coronation st when you chat about real things in life.
i must admit truck net come second to the olympics and paraha olympics but they,ve gone now for a while.
keep on chatting lads.and posting photo,s.thanks to all.
John
Well I must admit its a lifeline for me.
Moved to Florida 21 years ago this week, still in transport but found very few people who have the knowledge, or interest in trucks/lorries such as many members on here.
As Saviem said, himself included there are a lot of people on here who have walked the walk, and are prepared to share their past and present experience. Truck Net members represent all aspects of the transport industry, fitters, drivers, managers you name the job people on here are involved one way or another.
I have seen a few lorries on here I drove back in the U.K. three in fact, that’s an incredible feeling. I have met members who I have become friends with.
We all have our fovourite forums and threads, and all credit must be given to those who work so hard to keep them interesting, and therefore addictive.
I do my best to check in at least once a day, almost afraid to miss something. I love the banter some prominent members dish out, but having said that not yet been on the receiving end of it. No newmercman, that’s not an invitation to take the p… .
Plus you learn something new regularly.
Regards to all.
My wife bought me a computer around the time the smoking ban came in and now she says it keeps me out of the pub and I find it very interesting as well as a mine of information as although I drove for a living all my working life I did not have to much interest or time ( or knowledge ) to be looking at sites like this so it as taken over from reading as one of my past times and I never seem to have time to watch the idiot box which is far better for me besides I am told it keeps me out of trouble 
There is some fantastic threads especially about old wagons and times when the job was a pleasure to go to work as I am sure I would not be able to work in the conditions which the drivers of today have to endue as I would still be doing time for not having patience and a quick temper with the jobsworth’s and idiots who have a degree but no common sense .
cheers Johnnie
I browse it once a day for a while, then I wont visit for weeks.
Out of all, this subsection is more in line with what I want to read. Cant be doing with the main everyday forum.
It reflects what I call the golden days of road transport, that period from just after the war through to the mid 1990’s. The industry using ex WD vehicles right up to the advent of the super trucks. When rules were not so tight, health and safety was common sense, dodgy nights out, no mobile phones. remembering your first trip into europe and clearing customs at every border, fiddling tanksheins,Standing at Dover wondering what the heck you were doing. Then, realizing a few months later that it is YOU telling someone else how to do this and that, how to get to somewhere and where to get your T forms done.
Our generation always think that we had the best years of this game, it may not be true of course, and it is true that overall a lot has improved for the driver over the years, but we still like to think we had it the best:)
So I love reading some of the tales, some tall some short . I like to remember how I remembered it, and can do so through this part of the forum. Ah! the good old days when a 290 was an absolute beast, when the clutch on yer Foden or Atkinson Borderer nearly broke your leg to push down, sleeping on a blow up matress across the engine cover with a set of home made curtains hanging on a piece of ‘Swish’ curtain rail nailed around the inside of the ERF. And a candle on the dashboard to keep the windscreen frost free on the inside. Bits of rag strips hanging from the mirrors to keep them clean. Oh, and other drivers you could actually hold a conversation with 
Ah the good old days!
Hi, twoninety88,
Keep going with that post , you’ve nearly convinced me. A lot of what you said is so true, being able to talk to other drivers, having the time to talk to other drivers, the comradeship, helping each other . all that was the best.
How many times have you cursed when a rope won’t go over because of the wind ,when you can’t get a hitch undone because it’s frozen, snotty despatch clerks still in short trousers. All that and yes we would go back for more!
Threads like this show us the different sides to transport, from the humdrum of parcel deliveries in city centres to the rivetting ( I’m not being sarcastic) stories of european and middle east runs. And even the lowly despatch clerks have contributed.And people like Bewick (Dennis) with his seemingly endless supply of photo’s and stories of life both sides of the desk, and the ex-pats who went across the pond to try their hand and making a living out of it.
Nearly all of us when we look at Trucknet must think ,if only a little bit , I was or am a part of that.
Cheers Bassman
I originally found TNET by Googling one of Dads’ old lorry registrations and it came back with a post by Windrush, who’d driven it after Smiths sold it.
It still surprises me when pictures of fleets and lorries I remember from my childhood that I’d forgotten about.
It’s a cross between a social club and a lorry magazine whic I find appealing.
Bassman:
How many times have you cursed when a rope won’t go over because of the wind ,when you can’t get a hitch undone because it’s frozen, snotty despatch clerks still in short trousers. All that and yes we would go back for more!
Avonmouth docks, autumn 1975, struggling with a sheet on a flat after loading timber products. The sheet was an old TOR line sheet about 80 x 80 feet, or so it seemed. The guvnor came by a few of them as he was too tight to buy proper sheets.I got peed off with fighting it and hoisted it into the dock where it sank like a stone, I ran just a fly sheet over the top and came home with that
A week later doing the same only this time with a half decent tarpaulin, when I saw another driver having trouble in the wind. I grabbed hold of the end of the sheet when he bellowed at me in his lovely welsh accent, ‘when I want help from a f***ing englishman, that will be the day I stop driving’
Halcyon days
My views echo just about all the above ; Lorry mad, used to go with my grandad, was looking for one of his old lorries on line when this site came up. And the pictures, stories and information is invaluable… Plus i’ve made a few good friends too…
And some of the Banter is hilarious too. Not that i get involved, i just sit back and laugh
I think that I was looking for some information on Berkshire haulage companies and Google came up with this site! Keep looking in most days and enjoy the factual stuff from folk like Berwick, Larry Dunbar and others who did the job, also the ‘fiction writer’s’ such as Carryfast etc, and wish that I still had a truck to drive but alas those days ended prematurely. 
Never mind, they cant erase my memories!
Pete.
For me Trucknet is a great place to tune in,relax and keep abreast of my passion…Trucks! The old time section is my favoutite…some great nostalgic stories,pics etc and great characters sharing their lifetime experiences…good and bad. I do like the mix,banter,opinions,arguments(Heated Debates!)and contributions from the old timers,ex pats,drivers,owners,mechanics,youngsters. I do like hearing the international contributors…both ex pats & our continental friends who bring a worldwide flavour to the forum. I’d miss it dearly if it was gone…
Not sure why think its maybe being permanent nights out & back never get any crack these days, so look in here now & then, although can get frustrating now & then reading some of the crap. It can get addictive when there is something you want to follow. Never bother much with the pro forum been on here since 2006 & its seems the same questions or rants comes up week after week.