Truck & Driver Magazine - December 2020

In this issue

Our December issue is the “V8 Special” as we turn the spotlight on the engine synonymous with Scania. Not only that, we take an in depth look at just about every other V8 that came to the UK! The hardest thing about this issue was cramming in all the content. If you like awesome trucks, you’re gonna love this issue…

Editor’s Choice is GCS Johnson’s custom-built Scania 142 T-cab – you’ve never seen one anything like this!

We visit JM Paterson to find out why only a Scania V8 will do for heavy equipment moving work

There’s a massive 4500 word, ten page feature looking at every model of V8 truck that was sold in the UK courtesy of legendary truck historian Peter Davies!

Super-rare Mercedes-Benz Actros 2554 MP2 from Northern Ireland with special Michael Schumacher airbrushing

MAN’s TGX V8s – Allely’s run these on heavy haulage work. Bob Beech takes a look at the history of the engine and the trucks

Bedford TM V8. A superb “screaming Jimmy” two-stroke Detroit Diesel from Cornwall

Dodge Commando V8 – sweet little Perkins-powered 26-tonne tractor unit. Not all V8s were big and heavy!

Incredible Ivecos! Long Haul Commercial’s are Ireland’s Iveco experts and we look at three of their finest: a pair of TurboStars and a EuroStar

King of the Landfill – the story of McGovern’s custom-built air-cooled Magirus-Deutz V8 tractor units and their mint restored example

Renault Magnum Mack V8 rebuild. We check out a work in progress and discover more about the American-French Connection

NOT a V8! Paul O’ Callaghan charts the first part of a long haul to Italy in a Volvo FH 540

The Last Act

Merc’s V8 swansong, the 16-litre OM502 powered Actros is now incredibly rare, but we found one in Northern Ireland and what a beauty it is

9 mins

Baby Eight

When you think about V8-powered trucks you probably tend to visualise big, heavy-duty long haulers. Well here’s one that’s small, but also perfectly formed

6 mins

UK V8 trucks a history

Here’s a comprehensive rundown of everything that was fitted with a V8 and sold in the UK. Some… were more successful than others!

10+ mins

The I's have it!

Italy. Ireland. Iveco. What’s the connection? One man’s mission to preserve some of the rarest and most powerful trucks of the ‘80s and ‘90s

8 mins

Machine Heads

Their plant hire equipment is hugely diverse, but when it comes to the trucks that haul it, there’s only one that’ll do for JM Paterson – a Scania V8

7 mins

Le Grande Mack

If ever there was a truck that defined the 1990s, it has to be the towering Renault Magnum. There had never been anything like it before and to be honest, there’s never been anything quite like it since

10 mins

THE BIG MAN

MAN have produced some serious heavyweights over the years. We look back on them, and talk to a heavy haulage operator who knows the German V8 well

9 mins

King of the ‘fill

Processing waste for the City of London has always been a major operation. For many years McGovern’s ran specially-built bonneted Magirus-Deutz artics on landfill work, and this superb restored example pays tribute to those trucks

10+ mins

Stroker Ace

The two-stroke Detroit diesel engine was a huge success in America, but it failed in the UK when Bedford offered it in their new TM, with heavy fuel consumption one of the main criticisms. But what were they really like?

8 mins

Dublin up!

The first of a three-part series, Paul heads from Ireland to Bologna, Italy with a left-hooker Volvo FH 540 and a collection of maps

7 mins

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