Truckfest even bigger and better!
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• Commercial Motor Truckfest is getting bigger by the week, as more firms and individuals enter the myriad events which will take place over the Sunday and Monday of the May Bank Holiday weekend (May 4/5).
Just to show that some truckers' interests go further than their vehicles, one of the team of three members of the quaintly-named Whoopee Hollow sky divers who will be dropping into Truckfest on
both days is an fiGN/ dri
Mick Adams works for 1.1 Rogers, whose vehicles v be on the stand of Confine Cargo Carriers of Felixstc
Something noisier than diving will be provided b■ members of the British Tractor Pullers Associatioi who will be giving demonstrations in the mai arena. Their massive, hig tuned vehicles (see pictur with power outputs excee 750kW are probably the r powerful competition vehi( seen in Britain.
For those who favour finesse over fury, Volvo running its fascinating '"Fruckfest Springboard" competition. This is a gia "egg-and-spoon" race, in which contestants compet■ using Volvo tractive units
Further details on everything going on at Commercial Motor Truckft from Live Promotions, Ti Millstone, St Thomas's RI Spalding, Lincolnshire, ph( 0775 68661.