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I too qualified for my Class 1 through 'grandfather rights' having driven all manner of types (including military) as part of my job (testing experimental vehicles). Did runs to Southern Italy at 44 tonnes long before it was 'legal'.
Worst truck I drove was a Guy Big J (I realise that there were worse vehicles, but I was mainly driving new and prototype models).
Best fun was 6x4 8V92 rigid truck and drawbar trailer at 36 tonnes GTW testing anti-lock brakes on skid pans (with system active and disabled), closely followed by driving through narrow Italian streets with a Jake Brake on an 8V-92T with a fractured exhaust downpipe - alarming the young senoritas (or whatever they call them in Cosenza.
Disc brake testing from Berchtesgarten down the Obersaltzbergstrasse and Rossfeldstrasse was exciting too.
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