Join the Territorial Army (The T.A)
Many skills required, HGV Drivers various are amongst them

The British Forces are in the process of restructuring, and I have no knowledge how it will effect the Territorial Army, but I suspect it may enlarge, and Transportation may well be high on the list of requirements.
Fully qualified drivers would be needed and I am sure that they would continue to be trained, as in the past, but perhaps in greater numbers, so if you want to serve your country, and learn to drive an HGV or LGV as some would like us to call it, why not consider the opportunity, essentially learn to drive an HGV free.

I have below some photographs of some Army Transports, Tracked vehicles and a 45 tonne Tank on its Tank Transporter, I think the shell size of this Tank is about 105/110mm which is about 25% bigger than those feared in WW2.

MY contact with the TA is very limited,, but have found from my experiences, that those involved in the TA are a happy bunch, helpful, working together, and nothing seems to much trouble when helping the general public. In a previous page I have mentioned that life in the forces can be stimulating, never to be forgotten, and its possible to do a lot of good.

You can apply for details at ( http://www.ta.mod.uk/general/enquiry.html ) so highlight this address (left click down and hold it, then drag over the text) and right click highlighted section, the select copy,,,, whenever you are ready you just need to right click in your browser address window, and select paste from the menu that drops down, simple,, Yes ! I could have put a link, but this teaches you a little more if you are new to the internet.

After the TA and Free driving Lessons for HGV what about driving a Tank,,, and then there is desert driving,,, I include a black and white photograph of a unique bus service in the desert of Iraq, but not when Sadam was around, this was about 1949 in the Iraq desert,, the name of this bus service was the Silver Bullet. It was an air conditioned cabin with a tractor unit as prime mover. It crossed the desert of Iraq between cities, on roads where an oil drum on odd occasions showed the newbe which way to go, the silver bullet driver was king. This photo was taken by an Royal Air force Photographer, who supplied me with the pic, credit to Sgt. Tony Woodward of 8MFPS, this was my unit also when in Germany (8mfps = 8th mobile field Photographic section. sometimes called 8MFPU or 8th mobile field photographic unit).

Please note that all photographs are copyright protected.

If you wish to contact Tony please send mail to the webmaster. RAF Bruggen Germany was one of the stations which this unit or section operated on, when not in the fields or woods. If you know a John Taylor who married Carol in Ruislip in about 1962, (ex RAF photographer 8MFPS Bruggen Germany) last know to be in the Huntingdon area in about 1962, (now at approx: retirement age) please again send a mail with any small details possible to any webmaster link on this site. Thank you!

As a matter of contrast I have a 1024 wallpaper size (as the others are) swan lake photograph, followed by a real country scene in the winter months, well,, a transport scene at least, it shows a real life HGV hard job getting skips with various waste from the rolling hills of the English Welsh borders, I think of it as a down to earth photograph.