Truckin' Life Hand Book. 1982/83
Johnson, M.B. (Ed.) (1982) Truckin' Life Hand Book. 1982/83. Clayfield, Qld: Overdrive Publications.
[ISBN] ISSN 0155-9648
Review:
I've always had a soft spot for big trucks and the technology of long-distance transport rigs. Maybe it goes with the territory of the sort of country music I enjoy; maybe it's the past miles I've put in on long distance work-related journeys.
It's now the middle of 2020 and due to pandemic lockdowns the state of the media has changed considerably. In Australia, previously, there has been a few consumer and trade magazines and newspaper formats devoted to commercial transport, logistics, and freight industries. Just this month one of those titles I regularly sought out, Big Rigs has been closed and its website shut down.
Truckin' Life was one of the first magazine titles devoted to the Australian Trucking and Transport Industries that I knew of. It's glossy colour format magazine has been distributed through newsagents, convenience stores, and fuel stops for many years. I seem to recall I got my copy of the Hand Book from a remote provincial town some distance from our major cities. It was heavily discounted and probably New Old Stock when I bought it: it has probably spent at least thirty years rolling around in the back of whatever car I was driving at the time since its purchase.
So my copy of Truckin' Life Hand Book. 1982/83 is not in very good condition. That's a pity, because it offers a valuable insight into the Australian Trucking Industry at that time in history; and I doubt that there are many copies kicking around in libraries. It has been an inspirational and informative source for me over the years, for anything from tying truckies' knots to tyre maintenance tips to understanding legislation and how that differs between states in our ferderation of states. And the photos of the trucks are first rate.
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Besides Truckin' Life and Big Rigs, I have also been scanning through copies of Owner Driver (magazine) and Diesel (online).
Johnson, M.B. (Ed.) (1982) Truckin' Life Hand Book. 1982/83. Clayfield, Qld: Overdrive Publications..
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