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THE HALL OF FAME
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There are bad truas, good trucks — and a few truly great trucks. As part of CM's centenary year celebrations we open the great debate: Which was the greatest truck of them all?
It shouldn't have escaped your notice that this is Commercial Motor's centenary year. We've planned a feast of features looking back at the past 100 years, and even a few chancing a look at the next 100.We hope you're enjoying the weekly snippets taken from back if issues of CM, but they're just the beginning. .4 . Wherever possible, the subjects of our i irsie popular operator profiles will be looking at companies that are at least as old as 119..4 we are. Our actual centenary issue, on 17 March, will even include an update on a company that beats us by a year.
We don't expect there are many centenarians still behind the wheel but we're looking for Britain's oldest working truck and van drivers.
We've already identified some who are working beyond their state pension age; if you'd like to nominate yourself or someone you know, please let us know.
Elsewhere in this issue, you can find out where to see Britain's best historic commercial vehicles, in museums and on the road.
One recurring theme over the past 100 years has been the concept truck. From the practical to the downright ludicrous, designers have regularly presented us with their own ideas of the future. We'll be looking back to see which of them actually became reality.
The structure of the commercial vehicle manufacturing industry over the century has more twists and turns than the Cheltenham ring road, but we'll try to unravel the story and make sense of it all.That's assuming we can work it out for ourselves.
What do you hate?
Readers of George Orwell's classic 1984 will have heard of Room 101, which contains whatever is your own personal hell. We'll be offering readers the chance to nominate "RDC 101".., the thing you hate most in road transport.
We'll also be taking a look at how Commercial Motor's roadstests have evolved, reliving some of the high — and the low— points.
But the celebrations kick off with a series looking for the UK's most significant V. Over the next five months, 20 vehicles will be nominated by a panel comprising industry experts, fleet owners and managers and transport journalists.
Each will have the opportunity to present the case for his choices; at the end of the series you'll be invited to vote for your favourites — and to let us know which vehicles you think we missed. •