Truck & Driver UK – July 2019

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UP FRONT

14 Truckscene

All your truck community news.

Best story wins a model truck!

18 Contact

Letters to the T&D editor, plus the

best from Facebook and Twitter

20 Reviewed & rated

Products – including Marty Mone’s

second album – websites, podcasts

22 Snapshot

Readers’ pictures – get £10 per pic

or £50 for the best image of all

FEATURES

6 Editor’s Choice

A Daf XF 90th Anniversary Edition

with The Greatest Showman theme

26 Brotherhood

of MAN

In Weardale, a Humble trio of

brothers run green MAN tippers

32 Six education

T&D’s guide to the cost of a used

Euro 6 truck from the big seven

36 Brit exit

Background to the sad demise of

the British truck manufacturers

52 Poetry in motion

A Scottish haulier named Burns

and its stunning R580 Topline...

58 Going out in style

The story behind a superb Foden

Alpha and an amazing ERF ECX

64 High Time

Truckers’ Test: drivers give their

verdict on a Renault Range T High

68 Straight or eight?

Chris Good’s straight-six S

goes head to head with a V8 S

76 Cool Hand Luke

Luke Garrett scooped the 2018

BTRC Division 2 title. We speak to

him prior to the 2019 campaign

82 Swan song

Retro Truck: both owner-driver

Les Baston and his 1980 Seddon

Atkinson 400 are calling it a day

88 Team T&D

Driver-contributor update includes

Part 2 of Paul O’s Aussie adventure

REGULARS

24 From the

Sharp End

Why, asks Alex Saville, are climate

activists favoured by government?

35 Next month

Features to look forward to in T&D!

46 Food to go

This month Luke cooks up a

selection of tasty pasta dishes

50 Scenes from

the road

Our regular pictorial reflection of

trucking life on the black-top

94 Classified ads

Our ad listings include training,

parts, return loads, accessories,

services and insurance

98 The Blunt End

There’s a spooky (but hilarious!)

tale behind the slow, sad death of

The Punch Bowl on the A

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