Truck & Lorry Driving Experiences

They say if you can drive a normal car you can drive a big, hulking truck! You'll need to be a minimum of 5ft to be able to see over the steering wheel and reach the pedals.<

Some of our truck driving suppliers do ask that you have a standard car driver's licence, whilst others don't need you to have one. The best thing to do is to find the truck driving venue that's nearest to you and check their requirements in the 'Suitable For' tab under 'More Info'. If you need any assistance, email, chat or call us on 01959 578100.

If the operator doesn't require you to have a driving licence, you can be as young as 12 years old. Please see each supplier page for full details on age limits for truck driving.

All experiences take place on private, off road land - hence no need for an LGV licence. You might be driving on a coned-out circuit at a former airfield, or you could be taking the truck out at an off road driver training centre. In all cases there will be plenty of truck driver manoeuvres and challenges for you to try.

The amount of time spent behind the wheel varies from venue to venue. Some offer a driver briefing, others do all the safety talk and training whilst you're in the lorry. During an experience that lasts around an hour overall, you might be driving for around 15 minutes.

Yes. A qualified instructor will be up front in the cab with you whilst you drive. Because driving a lorry is actually quite different to driving your average car, (did you know lorries often have 16 gears and you can start off in second?,) they'll be able to give you all the advice and pointers to get you truckin'

These are proper articulated lorries. That's to say full-sized cabs with a curtain or solid-sided trailer hooked up behind. We have everything from 489bhp Renault Magnum's with 45ft supercar transporter attached, to the long-nosed American trucks like the Peterbilt 379 or the Kenworth.

You need to be a pretty skilled driver to reverse a 55ft trailer into a loading bay, which is why specific driving licences are needed to be able to drive a lorry on the public roads. Cruising on the motorway in an articulated truck is great too. They have all mod cons onboard, with aircon, hydraulic seat, driver aids and all sorts, so whilst you're eating up the miles on the motorway, you'll be properly comfortable.

Nothing really! In the UK and Europe these terms are interchangeable. A Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) is the same thing as a Large Goods Vehicles (LGV) - that's to say any vehicle over 3.5tonnes, from box vans and tippers, to refrigerated trucks and articulated lorries. HGV and LGV are not classes of licences. Licences to drive trucks go from C1 for a a truck under 7.5 tonnes, to the C+E licence which is the most comprehensive and allows you to drive trucks of all sizes, up to a lorry with a single or double trailer, i.e. a proper artic!

Yes! Some of them are curtain-sided trucks like you see pounding the motorways every day. Some cabs are hooked up to solid-sided trailers that serve as car transporters, just like the ones you'd see parked up at big motorsport events. Whatever the set up and how ever they are used, they are proper Kings of the Road.

No. The normal tasks for a heavy goods vehicle driver are to load, secure, transport, unload, deliver and collect goods. On these sessions you won't be doing any of that, but you will be practicing the sort of tricky manoeuvres truckers perform every shift, including reversing into a loading bay, going round roundabouts and dealing with junctions. You could try a bit of slaloming (trucks actually handle corners pretty well!) and have a go at accelerating along a straight too, so you experience the sensation of move up the gears. You might even learn how to hook and unhook your trailer!

Probably. In fact, this is what loads of our customers say when they tell us how their truck driving experience went. And if you do actually want to go for your C class truck licence, the operators that run as driver training schools will be only too pleased to explain what the training involves.

Some sessions are run as part of the programme of supercar driving days at a race track, others are provided by professional truck driver schools as a taster experience for those who just want to 'have a go'. In all cases, a professional and experienced instructor will be in the cab with you for the duration of your truck driving experience.

High! The elevated viewpoint from your cab is pretty cool. You seem really, really high up compared to the driving position in your standard car. It's quite roomy and comfy in there too. Some even have onboard sleeping cabins and all the mod cons you could ever need to be an international truck driver on multi-day missions.

With several different truck driving experience centres around the UK, there should be a venue near to you. We currently offer truck driving at places like:

• Devon
• Dorset
• Cornwall
• Essex
• Lincolnshire
• Cheshire
• Scotland
• South Wales
• Leicestershire
• Surrey
• Yorkshire
• Oxfordshire
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Wigan
• Warwickshire