Return of a working winner
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Eioung Martyn Brunt is once again taking his beloved Scania Centurion to Truckfest as an entry in the Best Kept Working Truck section. The K-reg vehicle has twice had success in this category, winning once and coming third on another occasion. It belongs to the fleet of Devon paper haulier AJ Brunt where driver Marlyn is the 22-year-old son of owner Alan Brunt. With his dad in haulage, Martyn has been a vehicle enthusiast since school i days. He spent weekends down the pit with a fitter and a greasegun, was yard shunting at 14, passed his CPC at 17 and his LGV test within two weeks of his 21st birthday. "Yard shunting is how you really learn to drive," he says. The Brunts at Truckfest include Alan and Martyn, Alan's wife Mary and daughter Caroline as well as the firm's drivers, They are among the many haulage families :. the Hawk looks forward to meeting when I arrive in my presiden tial saloon and wave regally through the smoked glass (well, I like to think of the trusty Reliant Robin in these terms; it gets so upset when people offer to push it even though it hasn't broken down).