UK Based Trucks - Forum Needed

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Originally Posted by Grant Johnson

...So to be clear - you're suggesting DROPPING the "other 4wd tech" and combining into 4wheel overland tech - light, and then adding '4 Wheel Overland Tech - Heavy Vehicles'?

Looking at the thread numbers for Toyota and Land Rover, it does look like they're rather pointless, so combine them into 4wheel overland tech - light?

Any other thoughts, or does that do it?...

First, thanks for being receptive and please allow me to temporarily park the moderation aspect.

I am conscious that there are very many established users and I really wouldn't want to upset the apple-cart for no good reason. It would be good to hear the views of others before any changes.

That said, I do stand by my original assertion regarding the ease of retrieving information and confusion surrounding where to post.

To articulate the basic idea further: I personally think that technical / equipment / systems discussions for 4 wheel overlanding vehicles fall quite naturally into just two categories.

Category 1. Tech issues most relevant to larger / heavier vehicles where travellers sleep, cook and eat mainly in the vehicle. These vehicles generally have onboard heaters, cookers, fridges, fixed furniture and beds etc. Generally speaking, vehicles in this category would include larger vans and trucks.

Category 2. Tech issues most relevant to smaller / lighter vehicles where travellers sleep, cook and eat mainly outside of the vehicle. These vehicles often have portable cookers, coolboxes, no (or only emergency) interior sleeping arrangements - and often rely upon roof tents or similar instead. Generally speaking, vehicles in this category would include estate cars, smaller vans and AWD utility vehicles like Land Rovers, Land Cruisers etc.

Naturally, there is some crossover, but in general terms - equipment, systems and tech issues are divided most markedly along these lines.

As before, I personally think having too many sub-forums creates confusion regarding where best to post, and makes information retrieval cumbersome.

It would be productive to gain feedback from others but I think the HUBB's 4 wheels section would benefit from scrapping all four of the current 'tech' sub forums and creating two new sub forums along the lines described. Currently active threads could fairly easily be dropped into the appropriate new large/heavy or small/light sub-forum and older inactive threads could be amalgamated into a 'historical' or similarly named sub-forum which shouldn't be open to new threads being created.

I hope others have a think about this and offer up some suggestions.