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Lifetime Achievement Award

You’re more likely to find John Tennant in the garage or driving a truck than you are in an office. With a whole life spent in the family business, he’s as passionate about his work as ever

Stock ‘n' Roll

We travelled to Portsoy to meet the team from Bert Christie Haulage, who run four immaculate Daf XFs on livestock transport

Mind Over Matter!

While it may not have been possible to have a truck show this year, the Breaker Breaker team came up with an innovative solution – a huge convoy!

The Nik of time

The big Renault Range T-High continues to impress drivers with its blend of space, style and performance

Taxing times

It is absolutely crucial that any business, however small, keeps good records for tax purposes. The consequences of failing to keep records can be significant.

Six days on the road

The long-awaited new Iveco is finally here in right-hand drive form! In true T&D fashion, we put the first one in the UK to work for a full week

Treemendous

When DA Garnham needed a new truck for timber haulage it resulted in this superb Dutch-influenced Volvo FH 540

Hero of haulage

After running two hugely successful charity truck shows, not even the Covid-19 shutdown could stop Paul Salkeld doing his best to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Support

Young Driver Award

With her father diagnosed with cancer and the survival of his haulage business potentially on the line, Holly Histed swapped hairdressing for the highway and has never looked back

Champion of Drivers

Driving and operating trucks is a minefield of law and compliance and it’s getting more difficult all the time to make sure you don’t fall foul of the authorities

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

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

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?

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

Zeal the deal

Part II. Paul continues his adventures from last month as a passenger in a Scania R730 livestock truck crossing New Zealand

The light fantastic

A pair of brand new artic combos were designed in-house at Davidson’s Animal feeds, with input and feedback from the drivers

Testing Times

The famous Bedfordshire test site built by General Motors celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. We take a look back at the history and evolution of the facility

Rebel Yellow

Manual gearbox trucks are getting rarer all the time, so we jumped at the chance to do some work in this 19-plate R500 to find out what it’s like

In for the long haul

Our Irishman in Oz’s interest was sparked when he spied the distinctive Scanias of De Campo, a company he tracks down to Pemberton in Western Australia

Numbers game

Let’s take a look back over the history of the Foden 4000

Home Comfort

Tridems have been big news in the tipper business for a while now. Daf has just refreshed its offering, with the XF Comfort Cab now available on a British-built RHD eight wheeler chassis. We took one for a drive

European adventures

Graham was back in Europe delivering cars after coming back from furlough. We find him in south west Germany on the banks of the Rhine, where he was looking forward to the week ahead

Big Cat diary

This long serving Cat powered Foden 4455 has provided 22 years of reliable service over 1.5 million miles, and it’s still in great shape today

Anglo Italian

This Scania 143 is originally from Italy and was bought and customised for the British and European show circuit