Last week I took my HGV test and passed first time, after the disappointment of my test being cancelled in early Jan when I did the training it was a huge relief. I had been for 5 days training with a company in Devizes called WTTL Ltd straight after New Year, it was really intensive and by the last day I was really feeling ready only to have the test cancelled as there was snow at the test centre. The next available date was 27th Jan three weeks later! Not ideal but it all came back to me in the morning practice, I passed with only 4 driver faults which I was very happy with as I was convinced I'd failed when two traffic lights changed at the last minute and I had to slam on the brakes.
Another very important reason to pass was we had just had an offer accepted on an HGV lorry that we were to pick up two days later so at least I was able to drive it!
The New Lorry
Now I know its not the colour of choice but in all other ways its great for us, it has a really good size living and at 14ton can take our 4 horses and all the gear. We have been busy giving it a good clean up and of course the first job was to get that 'thing' off the sides! It needs some more jobs doing on it then we are taking it to Carl's training at the end of the month to test drive everything before we stay away at competitions. Lets hope we can afford a re-spray at some stage, but in the meantime I'm ready for the jokes!
