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Been driving over 31 years. Don't think I've ever driven less than 18,000 to 21,000 miles per year, every year since passing my test
how long have you been driving for?
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Got my licence on September 1971 and been driving ever since, mostly domestic/pleasure but was an ADI for a couple of years in the early 80s (an advanced driving test for that) and have done some mini cabbing too.
I really enjoy driving (as did my dad, got his first licence driving fire engines during the blitz) and I grew up in the days when there were far far fewer cars - a lazy Sunday afternoon drive to the country did not mean getting stuck in jams and crawling in tailbacks on overcrowded and generally uncourtious roads.
Best driving experience was driving a WV cameraman from Delhi to Kathmandu in 1975 - four days, crazy driving, magnificent scenery and once in the mountains, rough narrow roads with death fall edges
Fun days....
I really enjoy driving (as did my dad, got his first licence driving fire engines during the blitz) and I grew up in the days when there were far far fewer cars - a lazy Sunday afternoon drive to the country did not mean getting stuck in jams and crawling in tailbacks on overcrowded and generally uncourtious roads.
Best driving experience was driving a WV cameraman from Delhi to Kathmandu in 1975 - four days, crazy driving, magnificent scenery and once in the mountains, rough narrow roads with death fall edges
Fun days....
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im only 33, i was 2 when you passed lol
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that mustve been some driveGot my licence on September 1971 and been driving ever since, mostly domestic/pleasure but was an ADI for a couple of years in the early 80s (an advanced driving test for that) and have done some mini cabbing too.
I really enjoy driving (as did my dad, got his first licence driving fire engines during the blitz) and I grew up in the days when there were far far fewer cars - a lazy Sunday afternoon drive to the country did not mean getting stuck in jams and crawling in tailbacks on overcrowded and generally uncourtious roads.
Best driving experience was driving a WV cameraman from Delhi to Kathmandu in 1975 - four days, crazy driving, magnificent scenery and once in the mountains, rough narrow roads with death fall edges
Not as much as the guy who drove it to Delhi from Southampton
The trip was to sell it in Nepal, and the owner had had enough of driving so let me as I wanted a lift to Nepal and had an international driving permit. In India in those days imported vehicles attracted 200% tax on its estimated value if not exported with the driver/owner
, whereas in Nepal nobody cared. Sell it in Kat to get a plane ticket to UK and spending money; the good ol' hippy trail Yes driving in Saudi is not fun, you never know which way they are going to drive at you.
Their road designs are strange, based on American formats but with Saudi oddities. Like a 120kph dual carriageway built from opposite directions but miss aligned by almost a lane when they met, so there was a correcting bodge just 20ft long.
Or a 3lane each way motorway, where you can come off the slip road on to it, into the fast lane, but then can exit in less than 400yards later off the slow lane.
I went there in 1996 When the house we had went down from the £60,000 we bought it for, to £28,000. Probably one of my better moves in life, without going to Saudi we'd certainly have been struggling economically till 2013.
Their road designs are strange, based on American formats but with Saudi oddities. Like a 120kph dual carriageway built from opposite directions but miss aligned by almost a lane when they met, so there was a correcting bodge just 20ft long.
Or a 3lane each way motorway, where you can come off the slip road on to it, into the fast lane, but then can exit in less than 400yards later off the slow lane.
I went there in 1996 When the house we had went down from the £60,000 we bought it for, to £28,000. Probably one of my better moves in life, without going to Saudi we'd certainly have been struggling economically till 2013.
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age 11 had my first field bike, passed my bike test at 17 and car at 18, so bike 44 years, or 38 years depending on whether with a licence or not, and car 37 years.
now i'm depressed! where did all that time go? no wonder i ache im an old ba###rd, thanks this was an irresponsible thread to start.
now i'm depressed! where did all that time go? no wonder i ache im an old ba###rd, thanks this was an irresponsible thread to start.
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Passed car test in 2001
Lorry test in 2008
Bike test in 2009
Lorry test in 2008
Bike test in 2009
Land Raver
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Now I feel very old!
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sorry mate lol
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37 years on cars, 14 years on HGV's and 13 years on the buses. Still tempted to sit the bike test to get the full house!
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What you should've asked is who's been legally driving for the least number of years.lets see whos been driving for the longest...
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i passed first time after 4 lessons ,the instructor said there was a spare test coming up and i may as well take it as part of learning ,he werent too happy when i passed, that was a month after my 17th birthday in 1981, but been driving tractors and landies on the road for a good few years prior as part of work on the farm,thats 37 years i think
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29 years on bike and car (legally) and just over 6 months on class 2.
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is class 2 a hgv licence?
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Yes
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cool, how much does it cost to get one of those licenses?
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