You did not fail mate, you had deferred success, it took me three times to pass due to nerves.
Born on a dairy farm, driving tractors/trailers as a kid didn’t make it easier.
Driving artics, the brain has to compute about five things at the same time.
On a test day, the stress is horrible.
I now treat every road user and any type of vehicle as a spoilt child.
Expect the unexpected at any time.
Expect the toys to be thrown out the pram .
And grown adults turn in to five year olds .
See a removal van/ lorry parked by a house, expect porters to walk out in the road carrying a chest of drawers, their vision obscured due to the height.
Scaffolding lorry parked up, will some poles come out at you ?
Mud on the road on a bend, is a tractor around the corner stopped in the road so he can open the gate to get in his field ?
A BT van on the bend, they work in pairs, expect the other van is on the next bend.