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The lady loves a lorry
S Deidre Rayson the only voman driver of a 32-ton-gross anker? She works for Tankreight and is quite a girl. She as been a farm secretary, a 'eterinary assistant, a saleswonan, has worked on a ewspaper, and been a model. But lorry driving is her real ove. "To me it's like being paid ) have a holiday," she says. his, I feel, rather cuts the round from beneath Moss vans and his cohorts.
In seven years she has driven latform lorries, reefers, tippers nd machinery carriers as well s tankers. She was involved in a iild dispute between a drainage iachine and a low bridge but therwise has an exemplary co rd.
She is also a young woman of oirit. After an awkward foreman a site at which she was devering a load of sand had made er manoeuvre her lorry into )ur different positions, she umped the lot in the gateway id left. the previous record for five gangs by 1,000cum. The Russian ship owners sent the company a message expressing their "great delight" at this achievement. I wonder whether they were influenced by the Hull and Humber company's state ownership.