How did you get to be a lorry driver?

I used to be a minicab driver in Ramsgate and on my night off on my way back from the pub I used to see all the trucks coming off of the inbound Sally Line ferry and driving up through the town. They had things like “Daily service to Rome” and “UK-Greece-UK” and “Bucharest Express” written on the trailers and I thought “I could do that”.