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Learning to drive with Eaton
7th July 2011, Page 9
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MOTORISTS WERE given a chance to experience first-hand just how difficult it can be to see closely positioned objects from the driving seat of an HGV at an event hosted by Cambridgeshire haulier Eaton Transport, last week.
Sixteen members of the Milton Keynes group of the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) were given access to two of Eaton Transports DAFs in the daylong event that saw the HGV novices learn to drive, turn and reverse a 44tonne artic.
Eaton Transport owner Steve Eaton says: "This is the fourth time we've had the JAM group here, and it gives the motorists a chance to see the difficulties of driving an HGV for themselves.