Hello all,
I’ve been drifting around the forums for a few months now, but I have only now registered. I’m 18, from Portsmouth and have just passed my Cat C second time round on the 5th. I’m now working towards my CPC Module 4 and hope to have that done by Christmas.
I’ve been into motors since a young age and then went for my car license shortly after turning 17. I spent 2 years at college finding that I could never do a job stuck in an office. After seeing numerous drawbars from a training company trundle by every day I decided to take the leap and get my Cat C.
When I finally started driving the 18T Mercedes Atego I found that it came quite naturally to me (however I put the mirror in the hedge twice in as many minutes) and was driving mainly without instruction on the third day. I took my test on the 6th day, screwed up the reverse, then 5 minutes in to the test went in a bus lane a few minutes before the restriction ended which caused me a major on traffic signs, so I failed with 1 major and 6 minors.
Second test rolled around 3 weeks later, it started snowing heavily in the early morning so I had my first snow driving experience in the dark, in a truck, on my test day, so that was rather daunting (all in a day’s work for a professional driver, but I found it quite nerve wracking). I took my test a few hours later, nailed the reverse, and returned to Guildford with a massive 13 minor faults. It is however a pass, and I am happy with the result!
Hoping to settle in around here and get to know everyone. 
