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I learned 'on the job' - never had a moment's instruction in my life.
This is not a boast, merely fact. I started driving trucks in 1966. My job was as a test engineer for experimental vehicles. I had a log book (though I drove on trade plates). No motorway stuff either, all B roads (and some A roads on long 'field trips' - such as when we drove down to the bottom of Italy . . . ).
You just had to do it (like ceylon220). Reversing an artic or a drawbar trailer got easier the more times that you did it (trial and error). Never ever hit anything either (though I did get a fright after reversing a coach into a gap using the mirrors and found how close I ended up to the other coaches).
Mind you, I never had to sheet a load (we carried crates of concrete blocks that were 'battened' to stop them sliding).
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