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at the road transport industry on telly, radio, papers and even t’interweb Following a CV Show hiatus, Commercial Motor’s regular column on the weird and wonderful world of trucks in the mass media, CV Burp, is back!
There is a lot that we have missed when it comes to trucks on film.
First up were two former Formula One world champions, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, testing their driving prowess against the young chap who presents the BBC’s coverage and former team boss Eddie Jordan in a “reversing round traffic cones in a MercedesBenz Actros” challenge.
Once the quartet had got past the “oh, aren’t trucks hard to drive” shock, unsurprisingly the two men who are paid millions of pounds a year by McLaren to drive an engine with fiberglass and wheels attached absolutely thrashed the pair who are paid significantly less to talk rubbish about racing. Still, nice advert for the Actros on the Beeb.
But what the BBC gives with one hand it takes away with the other... Its premier half-hour of misery, Eastenders, is doing its best to perpetuate the myth that trucks are hulking great lumps of doom.
Apparently, and CV Burp had to Google this after Mrs CV Burp told us she watched it while I did the washing up, Max Branning and daughter Abi slammed their car into the back of an articulated lorry. He must have been on his mobile.
According to gossip rag the Daily Mail, the pair were involved in the accident as they headed off to attend the wedding of his ex-wife Tanya and her new boyfriend Greg. Sounds absolutely thrilling. Yawn. I thought the East End of London was full of dole scroungers, muggers and muppets pretending that we care about having the Olympics.
Sadly the pair avoided death following their brush with an unspecified and unliveried vehicle, and in true soap style were well enough to step back into the Square for a quick argument and for some old battleaxe to yell: “Get out’a ma pub!” Sadly no-one told the pair to “Get out’a ma tail-lift.”