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New Sun 10 Oct 10 09:09 
 Lady lorry driver - Stuu
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1318484/Rita-Oakes-daughter-UK-s-female-long-distance-lorry-driver-recalls-adventures-road.html

Nice little story.
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New Sun 10 Oct 10 09:38 
 Lady lorry driver - Berisford
Nottingham Palais eh.........................


.......................happy days, though from 20 years later.
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New Sun 10 Oct 10 14:00 
 Lady lorry driver - Mike Hannon
The lorry in the first pic is a Bedford TK. Not too heavy on the steering one would hope.
Around 1960, probably earlier, I certainly recall a woman driver working for a firm at Launceston in Cornwall called Glover & Uglow. She drove a Leyland Octopus 8-wheeler. Now that was a man's job.
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New Sun 10 Oct 10 14:25 
 Lady lorry driver - Iffy
...Leyland Octopus 8-wheeler...

Wonder why they called it an octopus? :)

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New Sun 10 Oct 10 17:02 
 Lady lorry driver - Notdoctorchris
What a lovely and exciting tale.
I got out of the secure and well-paid life of medicine fairly recently as my mental health was in a nose-dive and the job was pure drudgery. The unpredictable and itinerant lifestyle of this lady really appeals, though I realise it was a very hard life.
The new woman in my life would appreciate this tale, I must show her. She's tried everything in her time but hasn't driven for 4 or 5 years (car licence only, not HGV, but she's done boxing so would have coped with those old wagons).
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New Sun 10 Oct 10 23:40 
 Lady lorry driver - Dave_
So I'm not the first to take my daughter to work with me then...
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New Mon 11 Oct 10 05:03 
 Lady lorry driver - Pat
I think it's a lovely story and well done to her.

Pat
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New Mon 11 Oct 10 10:06 
 Lady lorry driver - Mike Hannon
>...Leyland Octopus 8-wheeler...

Wonder why they called it an octopus? :)<

Well, I felt I had to put it in...
There was also a Bison, a Beaver, a Hippo and a Buffalo. Only the Octopus was self-explanatory. :-)

I spent all my early years riding in the cabs of my father's lorries - including an Octopus - and all I ever wanted to do was be a lorry driver too. He wouldn't hear of it.
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New Tue 12 Oct 10 12:19 
 Lady lorry driver - Chris S
Lady lorry driver? I wouldn't leave my car anywhere near her when she's parking!
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