First driving job that I had,long before HGV licences came into being,as long as you had a car full licence you were allowed to drive all types of HGVs, well my first was on an old Commer 2 stroke loading brewers grains from the whiskey distilleries up Scotland and loading sawdust from saw mills up and down the country using a wide mouthed aluminium shovel(bl--dy hard work) all for £3 aload,when coming up the hill at night thro Selkirk you would think that the wagon was a rocket starting up, the sparks would fly out of the exhaustin a mass of light, twice I was pulled up by the police in Selkirk to inform me that I had fire on board especially when she was pumping exhaust smoke out as well, talk about a firework display--those were the days,gone but not forgotten.
