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FABULOUS FLOPS

IN TIME, some trucks become classics. Others don’t, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they were duds.

No, the real duds are those shockers that take on a heritage all their own. Remembered, you might say, for all the wrong reasons.

So now, with the pandemic providing a little too much time to think about the past rather than the present, and enough experience to recount the makes and models that have maintained a deservedly dark and critical crevice in this commentator’s cranium, here are a few carefully considered lesser lights from the commercial vehicle vault.

I must stress, however, these opinions are my own and I accept there may be those with an opposite view of these

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