18 year old lgv drivers

ROG:
Article from a very recent edition of an advanced driving magazine…

‘It was a disturbing fact that soldiers were nearly three times more likely to be involved in an RTA than their civilian counterparts’

Sounds like the ones given the driving jobs just are’nt cut out for it ROG.It’s the way in the modern day army like everywhere else career truck drivers are born not trained.The office bods look on our job as some type of reward scheme given to those who’ve excelled at something else and then wonder why they are’nt any good at it.My Grandad was driving a team of horses and a wagon at that age and went on to steam powered Fodens.My dad was driving Diamond T tank transporters at 18.I was given one of these to try at 18 off road and made a good enough job of it for them to pay for my class 2 to drive them on the road starting when I’d just had my 21’st birthday.
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