Frank and the beanstalk
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Eyebrows tend to be raised when 26-year-old Frank Owens, who drives a DAF 15m artic for David McCulla and Sons, of Northern Ireland, descends from the cab. You see, he is only 4ft 10in tall (3in shorter than the prince of little men, Ronnie Corbett) and it is a 6ft climb to and from the driving seat.
Frank, who has held a licence since he was 21, drives to Norway and the South of France, among other places, and is scheduled for a trip to Algeria. He is highly articulate (like his lorry), as he showed when he produced a small newspaper when he was at school at Chipping Camden.
When interviewed by the Evesham Journal, he presented a reasoned case for road haulage with the velvet touch of a trained public relations officer. But every lorry driver is, of course, a public relations man for the industry. What a pity they do not all realise it.