So it's currently 10 to 6 on a chilly Thursday morning and I'm about to drive 50 miles to take my category C plus E on road driving test. Will I pass or will I fail? No but I'll tell you later. Now 657. I went the training centre still dark. Will I pass? Time to go. See you later with good or the bad news. A load of crows all over them. Highlands. What a rig. I've got to go and do the vehicle check. Well good news. I actually passed first time so I'm going to drive the 50 miles home now and give you an update then. So the HDV training was on the government's HDV skills bootcamp and actually applied in November 2000 and 21. And all of last year, 22 I did the 20 hours of guided learning or whatever it was. The driver CPC which was 35 hours. Until the theory test and has a perception test. So I got the driver CPC card in like May last year. I did the hazard perception and theory testing due last year. And that was just waiting for the actual lessons. I could have done it last October but I wasn't able to. So I was phoned by the company running the bootcamp and was told that somebody had cancelled. I could have done those two weeks. And I said yeah, I can. So I'll spend the last nine working days driving the 50 miles to take the lessons. It started off last Monday driving a category C for the rigid just to get used to the size. And then on the Tuesday and the Wednesday has driving the C plus E on the Thursday was that was all spent in the yard practicing the mod 3A the reverse in exercise and the decoupling and coupling. And I passed that on the Thursday last week we could go today only just because my reversing was not very good on the test. I did some awesome ones. We were just like yeah smooth as silk. And then they did some shine on to each other. And it just so happened on the test. It was a bit up past didn't hit any cones, didn't cross any other lines. Didn't hit the reverse, the mock reversing bathing. It was just banana shade. On coupling and coupling is straightforward blacks put the trailer break on below the legs disconnect the airlines take the clip off the king pin disconnect the king pin for the tractor unit away. Reverse in connecting is the same but the tractor unit up to the trailer check the height of the fifth wheel. Check the trailer break is on stick your lights and hazards on and go under until it clicks. And then reconnect your airlines. Well you can clip on the king pin first and do the airlines behind the legs up for the trailer break off. And obviously you do your checks on the trailer. I nearly forgot to check the trailer break. I was like this is a trailer that you've never seen before. So I got the tractor unit up to it, checked the height of the fifth wheel. And I know one can walk between the tractor unit and the trailer. So I'll just go and check the trailer over to make sure that it's in good condition. And I walked past the trailer break and then went first I'll check the trailer break is on. And then I carried on with the checks. So I'm satisfied with this trailer. And then continued to connect the buyers and say reverse in up until you hear the two clicks. Put the clip in the king pin, connect all the wires, wind the legs up. And then before you take the trailer break off you do the two talks to make sure that it's all connected. And then Monday this week was out in the C plus E 2, it was out in the C plus E, Wednesday was out in the C plus E 3rds to this morning. I got there at like 7 o'clock, went for an hour's drive in the C plus E and then my test was at 930. Going around roads that would not have been around all the time we were practicing. Somebody on a bike, a push bike was in front of me drifting around and cars inside and I was like, oh, what's all this? But you know, I just stayed calm, stayed in control in the vehicle, made sure nobody was putting danger. And I passed, I had three miners, one of them was going over a speed bump too fast, which was like really fast, going to be the notice it was there. Up this tight, windy house in a state with roadworks and temporary traffic lights. And the speed bump was right next to the temporary traffic lights and I was like, oh no, I thought you wouldn't know. I wonder if that will be a say any other. The other miner was hesitating at a small white painted on island because a car had come round that wasn't indicating and the truck house in was like, so excelling. So I thought I'm not going to risk going just in case this clown wants to come round. But it didn't so I went and then another miner was hesitating at another island because I put the accelerator down on the truck and it didn't go any way it was like, hmm, shall I go in gear or shall I think about it? And it thought about it by then another car had come so I had to put the brakes on and stop again. So, I did say that to notice that the truck was a bit slow, so they were just like mine and so not failures. So yeah, I passed, I got my C plus E. Now I need to do, just get the C plus E work. So, I'm happy. Ciao.