November 1986, I was 22. By mid 1987 I was already an experienced continental driver 
Yeah, I was lucky
Since 1975 and I have had the US CDL A since 2002.
Dan ze Man:
Shandy123:
Dan ze Man:
3 years.
Cant find a job tho.Surrey class 2 is better paid and no nights out.
2k down the drain.
Maybe you need to ā ā ā ā up a tramping job for a while, to get experience and see where the work is?
I just googled āsurrey hauliersā
thx for the idea.
Im starting new job next year. Water engineer. no more driving for some time for me.
Well thatās a definite 2k down the drain, literally.!!
bobbya:
Dan ze Man:
Shandy123:
Dan ze Man:
3 years.
Cant find a job tho.Surrey class 2 is better paid and no nights out.
2k down the drain.
Maybe you need to ā ā ā ā up a tramping job for a while, to get experience and see where the work is?
I just googled āsurrey hauliersā
thx for the idea.
Im starting new job next year. Water engineer. no more driving for some time for me.
Well thatās a definite 2k down the drain, literally.!!
1975 for meā¦company trained up there own driversā¦7 days under L plates ā¦test on 8th dayā¦Been out the game for 15 yearsā¦at 63 no going back.
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Seems to me like thereās a lot on here that donāt drive anymore,lucky buggers.
Past first time on January 1994 in a Ford cargo (sleeper) [emoji16][emoji16] with a little 25-30ft flat trailerā¦
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bobbya:
Seems to me like thereās a lot on here that donāt drive anymore,lucky buggers.
Thatās me mate! I have a cushy 37.5 hrs job driving a van these days with max 7 - 8 dropsā¦ and do two HGV
days per month on the agency just to keep my hand in and top up my crap wages! Lol 
Class 1 from 97 but had driven buses previously passing my PSV Class 1 āAll Typesā in 81. Only drive hgv part time now or as relief as I have other interests.
I started driving artics in 1986, I was on a āyoung driverās schemeā at the company I worked for, however nearly three years into the āschemeā a traffic copper on the M6 and the magistrates at Newcastle under Lyme took a dim view of it as it wasnāt an āofficialā scheme and banned me from driving for a month and gave me a good telling off. I turned 21 in 1989 on a Sunday and passed my class one on the Wednesday, which wasnāt as good as it appears on paper as I had almost three years experience by then! The Traffic Commissioner requested my presence at an interview because of my disregard for procedures and I had to promise to be a good boy before he would allow me to have a provisional licence.
In 2008 at the age of 40 I took my class one again, this time in Canada. It was a bit different to the first test, instead of a Ford D series and a single axle 28ft trailer, I had a Kenworth T800 and a 53ft trailer, the result was the same though and I surrendered my British class one and was issued with my Canadian class one.
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I had mine before the licence was inventedā¦ha ha and got given my licences as they came aboutā¦will have to check the dates but i got the little red bookā¦brown bookā¦the black bookā¦dont know what order till i check, but i`ve had over 53 years breaking my back with the poxy thingsā¦2 axlesā¦3 axlesā¦springsā¦air suspensionā¦spread axles, 4 in linesā¦27ft single axles.to 15m tilts.to 33 ft primrose tandemsā¦seen many changes in my times thoughā¦enjoyed most of them.
20 years and 23 days with my class 1.
You guys make me feel young
In 3 weeks I go back to university and feel old again. My HGV entitlement is older than most of my peers