Skip to main content

Truck Driving Experience

Nationwide Locations
REF: TRKOFF
Rated Based On 11 Reviews

• Drive a 480bhp DAF truck with trailer
• Short in vehicle briefing explaining the controls
• Manoeuvre a 55ft beast of a lorry
• Available at locations nationwide!
 
Easter Promo
 


What's Included

• Driver welcome and Registration
• Introduction and briefing from your truck driving instructor
• Short in vehicle briefing explaining the controls
• 10 minute session driving a 480bhp DAF XF truck and race car trailer
• A Truck Driving Experience Certificate
• Please allow 2 hours at the location
• Extended truck Driving Experiences follow the same format but provide approximately 20-25 minutes drive time

What Can I Expect

Realise a dream with this exhilarating lorry driving experience at your choice of venue! No need for a special LGV driving licence to drive one of these fab DAF lorries with automatic transmission - just climb aboard the cab, grab that Yorkie bar and get truckin'!

If you've seen the Stig's lorry driving cousin the Rig Stig on Top Gear, you'll know just how powerful these articulated lorries such as the DAF XF are.

The DAF XF was built in the UK at Leyland and offers a very large 480bhp and amazing torque worthy of the International Lorry of the Year in 2007. The tractors (the proper lorry driver's term for the cab bit!) will be towing a trailer used for transporting cars, so you'll be manoeuvring a 55ft beast of a lorry on this off-road circuit.

Climb into the cab-over-engine flat nosed tractor unit and you'll notice how comfy it is with air-suspended driver's seat, air conditioning, a sleeper berth and that elevated lorry driver's view of the road. The cab has a sort of wraparound console dashboard, so everything a long-distance trucker could need is to hand. So different to your usual car, just being in a truck is brilliant!

With a fully licensed lorry driver at your side, you'll be negotiating a course of cones and attempting a few reversing moves with your 'convoi exceptionnel' - and remember there's no rear view mirror in the cab, it all has to be done using the side mirrors on the lorry. Tricky.

Once you've mastered the art of driving a lorry why not try a tank driving activity, a truly crushing experience! You can also visit our main gift ideas section for more, truly memorable gift suggestions, or take a look at our gifts for men ideas, where there's a large selection of men's activities that are perfect for the action man in your life.

Availability

• Operating from March to November on selected weekday and weekend dates
• Weekday and anytime vouchers are available for extended truck drives

Location

  • Yorkshire  Elvington
  • Surrey  Dunsfold Park
  • Wigan  Three Sisters

Suitable For

• Minimum age is 17
• Minimum height is 5' 4" and maximum 6'5"
• Maximum weight of 18 stone
• Drivers must have a full, valid driving licence which must be shown on the day
• Please wear flat soled shoes/trainers. Crash helmets are not required

Spectators

• A maximum of two spectators may accompany you to the truck circuit and sit in the cab while you do your experience
• Additional spectators are not permitted to watch from a distance for safety reasons
• Any spectators under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult (other than the participant)

Anything Else

• Optional collision damage can be purchased on the day for £25
• There is no photography service at the truck circuit so feel free to bring your own photography equipment

Reviews

4 out of 5 stars

Average Rating: 4
Total Reviews: 11

Find out what other customers think of the experience

Reviews

  based on 11 reviews

Rating: 4 stars
Mrs Dawn Dunford
I really enjoyed the experience of driving the truck. The instructor was brilliant. Unfortunately, ...
Rating: 4 stars
Christine Saunders
Into the blue are top class and helped extended my voucher for me , the venue was great with 6th ge...
Rating: 4 stars
D J Simmonds
Excellent, Ian the instructor did a first class job explaining what was expected and how to drive t...
Rating: 4 stars
karen colley
I really enjoyed my experience but would have preferred a little longer driving time. The staff wer...
Rating: 4 stars
Robert Rich
I guess that I would have liked a little longer, but I suppose most customers would say that. The t...
Rating: 4 stars
Jenny Sprod
This was great fun. The reception staff were friendly and cheerful, and my instructor was very goo...
Rating: 4 stars
Frogpool46
Felt it was too short / not good value!! Twice around the short circuit would of been better. I wa...
Rating: 4 stars
marc
It was great, the instructor, Celia was great, and I will do something similar again. I found the ...
Rating: 4 stars
Shelagh Hogan
Hi, I really enjoyed the Truck Driving Experience Experience, it was great fun. The instructer Rock...
Rating: 4 stars
Nigel Sparkes
Truck Driving at Chobham Surrey Excellent day Staff are brilliant
Rating: 4 stars
Hilary DEVLIN
I was delighted to discover that I would be driving on a proper tarmac road; I had assumed I would...