I’ve done both.
After driving LHD trucks in the army for 7 years I came back to the UK.
I had a lot of trouble keeping off kerbs for the first several hours driving of driving RHD trucks.
!0 years later I started driving for Murfitts. I had a proper truck there, RHD 
Occasionally I had to drive a LHD for a week, the first couple hours back in a LHD were a bit 
I jumped in (after doing checks tacho etc) and off I went. Flamin’ Nora, that lampost nearly took my ear off . Get closer to the kerb you fool, look how close that sign is to my mirror, Get closer to the kerb you fool, and so on 
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Once onto the slip road n heading for Dover it wasn’t a problem, although I tended to drift out a bit. Off the ferry in France, heading for Italy, no problem. Then I got to the 1st peage, they tend to be a snug fit and lining up between those big upturned concrete boats wasn’t easy. I managed it without a scrape, but many didn’t. In Italy we had the TelePass, which is like a Dart Tag only quicker, well it was once I’d really got used to driving a left ■■■■■■ again. The first few times I had to take it steady, they don’t give you much room. Once I’d got it, it was back to going through at about 50-60kmh (foot hovering over the brake pedal as you enter the peage )
I did some cab hopping for a few months there. By the end of that, I was quite comfortable driving either L or RHD, however I’d lost my touch for reversing, on either side, it almost always took a shunt more than it should have 
I drive a proper, RHD truck, with Millar Int’ and I’m quite happy with it, even though I do most of my driving in Europe. I prefer a RHD in Europe against a LHD in the UK any day. A lot more of our junctions, especially roundabouts, are set-up really badly for being able to see into the junction from a LHD truck.
Happy new year everyone, re LHD.
I have driven LHD for much of my 30 years on the road and mostly in Europe, the thought of ever having to drive RHD again fills me with terror. The better half hates letting me play in her BMW, says I keep trying to drive down the ditch, dunno what she means !!! the swapping sides between uk and european roads has become second nature, and yes Simon, the peage’s do seem very narrow when you first meet one but 50/60 kmh on the approach, I tried that once, my tag bleeped but a fault meant the barrier didnt raise, woops too late, it went for a ride in a horizontal plane, Sig Belusconi lookalike was not amused, but his arms did make a wonderful imitation of a windmill at full speed, Its memories like that that remind me why i still enjoy this job, (sometimes)
better get going, supposed to be in Leighton Buzzard for 7
limeyphil:
i blame the government.
we won the war. so european vehicles should be right hand drive.
Well, if that was to decide, I would be rather afraid, that we would all have to drive cars like Волга, ГÐЗ, Победа*, Лада and such. Or no, come back. We should all use Ikarus buses to get to our jobs in state owned farms 
*) Yes, I know, these cars are based on American and British technology, but they are made by Soviets
Pat Hasler:
Europe and America did it for revengeMost of Africa, Asia, Australia, NZ drive on the left (the correct way). Driving on the left orriginates from horse mounted knights of old who’s right had was considered their sword hand, riders would keep left when meeting another rider travelling in the other direction, they would raise their right hand to their head to show the were not holding a sword or weapon of any type … in other words a ‘Salute’ this in turn carried n untill cars appeared on the roads and thats is how driving on the peft came about.
It was not only horse mounted knights. Usualy they were carrying their swords on the left side, so passing each other from left would stop hitting each other with them.
Santa:
Nonetheless, the power of the right has been growing steadily. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, it brutally suppressed the latter’s keep-left rights, and much the same happened in Czechoslovakia in 1939. The last holdouts in mainland Europe, the Swedes, finally switched to the right in 1967 because most of the countries they sold Saabs and Volvos to were righties and they got tired of having to make different versions for domestic use and export.
The last in our area was Iceland, year or two after the Swedes. But in 2007 Samoa switched from right to left.
pete 359:
Sure I read somewhere, that Sweden? Changed overnight
Well, overnight is a peace of cake. There were some even more fun events. I know one example: after Poland regained its independence in 1918, former German and Russian partitions were driving on the right, while Austro-Hungarian partition was driving on the left. They were arguing over that for a bit, they decided to unificate the traffic to the right in 1922, but there was still problem in Kraków: to rebuild a tram infractructure was an expensive task for newly reborn country just after the Great War (it’s not easy, you know, see Edinburgh for more 
), so in Kraków while cars were riding on the right, trams were going on the left for next 3 years, until they finally completed the infrastructure reconstruction.
Now, that had to be fun: busy town, horse cars, automobiles and in between all that tramways going wrong direction!
Well If we ever change over, I reckon we should do Trucks n buses one weekend n any cars left change over the next weekend