Someone wants to be a Truckie !

Three Yokohama trucks lined up

Hello from sunny Slovakia.
Hopefully I now have a new reader of my blog as I was talking to the WTCC driver, Alex Macdowall, and he has just started to apply for his LGV driving licence. One of his sponsors is the UK company ECM (Vehicle Delivery Service) Ltd and I guess he feels that it is important that he can drive a truck.

JAS Honda unloading last thursday

The process to apply for a licence in the UK involves tests in a classroom before you can even start driving a truck. The first part of the licence means that you can drive a truck, up to a maximum weight of 17.5 tonnes. Once this part of the test is complete, you can then move up to a fully articulated truck, such as the race trucks and trailers that we drive. The cost of all this is approximately 1600 Euros.







You can look at Alex,s sponsor by clicking on this link.
http://www.ecmvds.co.uk/english/index.htm 

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Good luck with your training and I hope your need for speed will not be lost when you have to drive a truck at a maximum of 90kmh. And do not drive over the plastic cones when you are driving your truck in the test.

All Inkl.com team cars

The paddock is very busy at the Slovakiaring as we have all of the WTCC and ETCC trucks, inside the paddock area. Some of us will be leaving on Monday and making the short trip to Hungaroring whilst other teams will stay in Slovakia, for a few days, to repair their race cars.

PB Racing truck unloading