willie_mac:
Josh your uncle must drive very slow if all the nice trucks pass you !!!
Slow?!?! thats a under statement haha!
Poverty 
I had a rich Aunt. One day I played a game of hide and seek with my brothers and sisters. I hid in a wardrobe and in a bid to make myself invisible I pushed my way through loads of fur coats until I found myself standing on the hard shoulder of a motorway. A lorry with ‘Astran’ pulled up and a big Rabbit holding a tea pot opened the door and said get in. And here I am still trying to find my…
My ol’ man (RIP Dad) was an artic driver all his days from moving abnormal loads to bulkers to class2 with HIAB’s and thats where the interest started as a boy. Got my class 1 in the army at 19 and been driving in the real world for 6 and a half years now. Love driving, love trucks but there defo needs to be changes to make it just that bit better and we all know what they are eh■■?
Dad is still a driver but from the age of 3 i was in that lorry every chance i got. Never missed a weekend trip,a half term and quite often spent all 6 weeks of the summer holidays with him. So it was bound to happen. Grandad, uncles and cousins are drivers also, got to be in the blood. Started working on the lorries when i was 14 doing school holidays and saturdays etc.
Went and did my apprenticeship and qualified as a fitter, then did my test at 21 and the rest is history as they say. Now i get to ride around in some of the ultimate big boys toys!
it was written
its all i have ever wanted to do, i have always wanted to see the world through my windscreen
David H:
I had a rich Aunt. One day I played a game of hide and seek with my brothers and sisters. I hid in a wardrobe and in a bid to make myself invisible I pushed my way through loads of fur coats until I found myself standing on the hard shoulder of a motorway. A lorry with ‘Astran’ pulled up and a big Rabbit holding a tea pot opened the door and said get in. And here I am still trying to find my…
Don’t you just hate it when that happens. 
i suppose you’re driving a narnia, looking for alice in wonderland
I’m not smart enough to get a proper job ! 
As a 10 - 15 year old i used to cycle from home to the A1 at Wetherby and watch the trucks coming through with firms like Gibbs / Prestons / Robsons Atkinsons / ERF’s etc pulling through the roundabout. I was hooked and once i had the cash i took my licence and have enjoyed since them. Anything i can drive i will tried allsorts of jobs - as i only do it partime then i dont have to rely on the cash to fund the normal life.
Would not be without the thrill of driving at big one and backing into what seems to be impossible spaces.
Always wanted to, better than driving a desk by a million miles!‘:D’‘:D’
Always wanted to know what made the truck hiss when it came to a stop. so i took my tests just to find out… how dissapointing…
On a serious note the company i worked for offerd to put me through my training and i thought why not. So a few months later with class 1 up my sleeve i never looked back… well i try not to . only forwards through the windscreen.
I started off by unloading them - by hand and then by forklift.
Was working nights as a yard shunter for National Carriers back in the 70s and after doing a year of reversing anything from a little rigid to an artic with a forty foot trailer with a single rear axle (nightmare 
), I decided I wanted days.
The only thing they could offer me was to go to their own training school at Peterborough and get a car licence so I could drive the 7.5s on the road.
Went - passed my first test, not in a car, but in a 7.5
Afte quite a few years of driving 7.5s and starting to get bored, I decided to go for my then, HGV class 1 in 1988.
I then spent the majority of the next 16 years on rigids as the job suited me - got home every night, own account job, steady number, if slightly low basic, but plenty of o/t etc
I wanted to make loads of money, somethings gone wrong… 
My uncle got me into it really.I remember going with him when iwas 15.He hauled cattle which was a ■■■■■■ job but i loved it.I left school at 16 did my apprenticeship as an agricultural mechanic then ended up at british aerospace for 15 years easy money but couldnt face going in one day so booked myself on a cat c course and passed.Loved every minute of it and then this year took my c+e and passed but never used it.Sadly my young family commitments took over and i am now a taxi driver which is ok but i wish i could get back into lorry driving one day maybe one day
It says ERF not RAF:
This did it for me !!!
uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qodnx4hmeDo
Smokey and the bandit did it for me.
Drivings been in the family for years, dad was HGV and PSV, grandad got into it when he was conscripted during the war and carried on when he was demobbed.