Truckfest breaks new ground
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COMMERCIAL MO TC Truckfest — the trucking festh at Peterborough .'s East of Et land Showground — is breaki records already, over a month fore it opens on May 4.
The organisers report that in 1,000 trucks are already ewe% for the two-day event, wh takes place on the Sunday a Monday of the May bank hi day weekend.
Entries for Truckfest do t close until April 21, and hope is that hundreds more tries will have been received that date, for everything At driving competitions through I Eminox Custom competition, I Bandag Fleet Competition a the Shell Supertruck (hailer.
Trophy to Commerc Motor's Best-Kept Worki Truck competition.
Away from the trucks wh visitors bring themselves, there a host of competitions wh manufacturers and other In sponsors are bringing to event. Among these attracth are:
• The Mercedes-Benz `Tru. out' — a repeat of last yea successful trucks-based equivaL of the television game It's Knockout.
• The American craze for gia tyred pick-up trucks read British soil for the first tin with the earthmover-tyred Sur Monster which will be giv, demonstrations on both days.
• Volvo is organising a tn equivalent of an egg-and-spc rate, with entry decided throu a simple competition which u be running in Comnaerc Motor over the next few wed • Commercial Motor will launching a competition in wh a lucky reader will go away proud owner of one of the m unusual vehicles seen recently the show scene — a very spei vehicle from one of the ma manufacturers, prepared by of Britain's top specialist vehi companies. Details of this tom' tition, and the prize, will be 4 nounced next week.
• Displays will include those the Royal Artillery motorcy display team and the R Arrows.
Details can be obtained fr the organisers, Live Promotio on 0775 68661.