Scania 113m 310 P cab F120 YWT for me and was more than happy with it for my first motor 
Ford 4D, 1960. Then 2 promoted to a 2 stroke Commer.
The first drive for me was as a child on the farm, we had a Thames 4D cattle truck & I used to drive that around the yard. We used to have a firm delivering cattle feed, they used Commer TS3s & then a new Bedford S type, we had a drive of 3/4 of a mile, if I met them at the bottom of the drive the drivers would let me drive up to the yard. I loved it.
Once I passed my HGV using a little Bedford TK artic (almost like an ex brewery truck) the first drive for me was a GUY artic for Transhield running to Marks & Spencer stores in sandbach & Crewe. I’d passed my test, called in Alfred Marks agency to sign in on my way home & they phoned me to do the Transhield run that night. I was well chuffed.
I was driving a trnsit at the time ut got a job driving a Bedford KM, I was well pleased to be given almost a new truck considering I’d ony had my licence a few days.
Next was a Leyland Comet, Leyland Bison then a Volvo F86 that was a nice lorry, almost like driving a car compared to the Bedford & the Leylands I’d driven before.
BB
Don’t laugh and i know a few will call me a big fat liar but…
A GMC CCKW353 (Jimmy) Pretty much like this.
My first truck was a 7.5t leyland daf which i drove for london carierrs out of heywood on mulit drop work. Then i moved up to a 17t leyland daf then on to class 1 with a daf 95
My first truck
after switching jobs and getting my class one i got put onto a17 tonner (working my way up to an artic was what the office said)
before getting an artic at Russel Davies i abandoned ship and went onto tilts driving this 2 yr old 113
that brings back memories AA , i learnt to drive one of those gmc 6x6 trucks round the quarry in 1959 . we had 3 with perkins p6 engine with limespreader bodies & 1 original petrol engined winch lorry . the petrol one went like stink , cheers , rigsby
My first lorry that i drove after i passed my test was a Leyland Roadtrain day cab tractor unit.
It had a ten speed crash box, and i think a rolls royce engine.I can still remember the reg no (TNV 652W) It was that bad !!.
At the time i was working as a Shunter / driver for Schmitz Cargobull - Co durham, and we used the Truck to take New fridge trailers for Weight testing, and Road Testing.
Afterwards the Leyland was scrapped in favour of a newer Volvo FL10.
After i left Schmitz, my next truck was a Renault G290 4X2 Tractor unit,(Trailer Repairs- Birkenhead). ( I thought it was the dogs danglies - at the time), it could do 60 mph all day preferably downhill, but to me it was the first truck that i spent all week away, and at 23, i knew no better.
I stayed with the same firm until 2003, and had a succesion of renault tractors including (H798 LOK - Renault R310), (R958 DMB - Renault Premium 385), and finally (P832 RWR - Renault 385 Turboliner).
Happy times fondly remembered .
Cheers
Phil.
Time to bump this one up for any newer members.
past my test on monday morning (feb 1980 aged 21) in the afternoon was asked to take a seddon atki 400 artic and tipping trailer to derwenthaugh cokeworks and load with coke. was cr###ing myself as both were only six month old. vehicle had rr 265 and fuller box totally different to the dodge commando i passed my test on.
mick
M.A.N 16.232 with column change and an electric rocker switch splitter, had the vertical dash (flat), anybody else who drove one will know what i mean, quite a spacious cab back then, (1978)
If you’re counting 7.5 tonners, then, it was a Leyland Daf 45 for royal mail,
then my first heavy was a Scania 93, 17 tonner for PTS at Ipswich,
closely followed by my first artic, an MAN 22.403 for Goodways at Felixstowe! 
I started out at the age of 19 driving a H reg Leyland Roadrunner for a local guy who only had 3 trucks…i loved it…it had the factory sleeper cab and was fitted with a 20 ft flatbed body…i ended up with a brand new N reg Iveco Cargo…i will always be grateful to him for giving me the start…i am still good friends with him to this day…it gave me loads of experience and set me on the way to a life on the road…my first artic unit was a G reg Daf 2500…i was really lucky here as well because i was working in the office for this firm and the guy who owned it also had a coal business…which was sold off and the guy who was in charge came into the office with me…the daf was sitting in the yard because they couldn’t get anybody to drive it(it was a bit of a shed lol)…i had just passed my class 1 and asked if i could have it…that was replaced after about 6 months with a J reg ERF E10 which i absolutely loved(twin splitter as well)…i thought i was the dogs danglies when i got that truck… 
A well-clapped-out Bedford TK with Scammell coupling, belonging to Croan for Kippers (First job after de-mob from army).
Rove the back end out trying to find crawler coming up out of Appleby overloaded with herring, It got towed into Brough cafe and that was (happily) the last I saw of the heap of junk!
TMS:
A well-clapped-out Bedford TK with Scammell coupling, belonging to Croan for Kippers (First job after de-mob from army).Rove the back end out trying to find crawler coming up out of Appleby overloaded with herring, It got towed into Brough cafe and that was (happily) the last I saw of the heap of junk!
What happened to the herring TMS,or weren’t yer bothered?
Hah! Another driver bobtailed to Sayers and took the trailer on to Chappies in Melton Mowbray.
Put my notice in on return much to the consternation of Robert Croan so he presented me with a brand new Leyland Comet with 5th wheel - so all well in the end.
They loved young single “go anywhere any time” lads there. Roughest job ever!
Other drivers used to say that the Croan for Kippers headboard should read Croan for Crashes as according to legend, there wasn’t a roundabout on the old A1 that hadn’t been mounted by a Croan’s lorry with the driver sound asleep at the wheel.
I’ll put forward my late grandfathers’ first lorry; Bedford O type for Bernard T. Frost running coal hay and straw out Witney Station (and carrying bits of burnt out Whitley bombers that had crashed near his house 
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1976 D700 shunting in Fords Dagenham for RJB Neale, then d900 and after moving to Barking yard wow aec mandator also j plate erf and then the Mighty Marathron covering Penzance to Wick , oh also 1 trip to Rotterdam
I see we have some new members,so lets bump this one again.
Cheers Dave.
N110 JCV me first truck well i shared it nights for an owner driver for langdons who drove it days ! was young dumm and full of c** but after a few pints over a game of pool in the local railway club he gave me a break and i havnt looked back since only done six months (good times) with him until the air drier blow up in spain and the 4 grand bill to fix it made langdons finish him off but they took me on bless um !!! pic isnt very good but when i saw it coming i had to try and take it local guy bought it off langdons but havnt seen it about for a year or two !!
