Truck & Driver July 2019^5
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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
98
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