First licence 1979 age 21 done in a 7.5 tonne lorry - 1 week residential course (cycled to work then drove 7.5s for a living)
Drove first CAR in 1982 !
Old HGV class 1 (now CE) 1988 (7 day course)
Advanced car 1997
Advanced LGV 1998
All passed first time
Car - 1976
Bike - 1978
FLT - 1978
Class1 - 1985
Still learning 
Drove first car at 10
Drove on roads at 13
Joy riding at 14 (also first experience of ■■■■■■■■■■)
Stole Police car at 15, made local news 
Unable to discuss 16th year
Passed car test at 17
Passed Class 1 at 21 (1991)
switchlogic:
To be fair though driving a truck isnt really that hard.
It is according to some on here.
Car - 1972, at just over 17
Class 1 - 1976, at just over 21
HIAB - 1981
PSV - 1996 (but only drove coaches in Territorial Army, never in Civvy Street)
Lorry Mounted Forklift - 2006
All passed first time.
Been truck driving since 1974, first two years in 7.5T.
HGV driving since 1976; being under 25 yrs old wasn’t a problem in those days!
Car 1991 truck 1996 [emoji22]
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the maoster:
Got my motorcycle, car, class 3, and class 1 licences within a four week period of my 17 th birthday. Never did a class 2.
At 17 ?
HGV 1 in 1979…didn’t have to bother with a VAN test in those days 
Motorcycle test around the late 70’s also,on BSA combination 
didn’t have to bother with a moped or other crap then either 
Car 1981
Class 1 (or C+E) 1995. Class 1 only took 6 weeks in total as you didn’t need to do a rigid first, this includes failing the first test.
Car - 1997
Motorbike - 2005
HGV Dock licence (C and C+E) - 2012
Cat C - May 2016
Cat C+E - Oct 2016
manski:
the maoster:
Got my motorcycle, car, class 3, and class 1 licences within a four week period of my 17 th birthday. Never did a class 2.At 17 ?
Yep. Military.
Car test October 97 3 weeks after my 17th, class 2 5 days after my 21st in September 01, and my class 1 a week before Christmas that year too
Passed my test for a car in 1960 at 17. There were no HGV licences then so when I got a job driving a lorry that was all I needed. When HGV’s were introduced, I got one with grandfather rights.
I was a TM in the early 80’s and we decided to put all 12 drivers through their Class 1. I just added my name to the list and after a day in the classroom and a couple in the cab, I passed. So did all the drivers.
Car: December 1980 (18)
Motorbike: December 1980 (18) full license
HGV,PSV, Class1: January 1981
Chauffeurs Diploma 1983/84
CPC national and International 2006/07
First fine for driving under age in Austria February 1981 (that time you needed to be 21 for Austria)
the maoster:
Got my motorcycle, car, class 3, and class 1 licences within a four week period of my 17 th birthday. Never did a class 2.
free of charge? Courtesy of the Queen? 
Car 1974 (18)
HGV Class 1 1978 (21)
Never took a test for driving a lorry, if you had proof you had driven a lorry for six months
Between 1969 and 1970 you could apply for a HGV license and they sent you a black book
Licence, still have the licence, still driving class one and just passed my yearly medical
and eye test, no glasses needed.
passed car test in1963…started driving a van , a bigger van, a rigid then artics…only ever took a test in a car…hgv licences wasnt on the menu, and when they came in, whatever you were driving, was the licence you got, and am still a HGV driver to day.
Santa:
Passed my test for a car in 1960 at 17. There were no HGV licences then so when I got a job driving a lorry that was all I needed. When HGV’s were introduced, I got one with grandfather rights.
Similar with me.
I passed my test driving a 12 ton armoured car in the army in 1962. That gave me a small red driving licence that covered everything. I took another test in 1967 in a tank giving me a group H.(That covers me for bulldozers).
I was a Chieftain driving instructor when I demobbed.
After leaving the military and applying for an HGV job, the guy interviewing me told me that HGV’s were large and dirty? No ■■■■ Sherlock! Told me I didn’t look up to the job!
Since then I have gained every class of HGV by grand father rights, never taken a class 1 test, is 74 too old to think about taking my class 1 ?
Bike 96
Car 2001
Class 2 — next week I hope