A woman who collided with a lorry while driving and developed a deep routed fear now works as the world's smallest lorry driver.
Hayley Hume, 40, would get clammy hands whenever she saw a lorry following a nasty crash in 2008.
To help her get over her fear, she went out with her cousin Kyle, himself a truck driver, to overcome her phobia.
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Instead of hating it, Hume had a wail of a time and decided to pack in her job as a dog trainer and get a lorry licence.
The mum now drives a 14ft high 44 tonne, 16 wheeled tipper truck along Britain's motorways where she delivers sand and gravel to building sites and quarries for 60 hours a week.
At 4ft 9in, male colleagues are often shocked when the see her clambering out of the lorry with some even asking where her Dad is.
But she says she has no regrets and loves being one of the smallest truck drivers around.
Hayley from Bakewell, Derbyshire, said: "I love being high up. It's like being in my own little castle.
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"After the crash 15 years ago I wouldn't go on the motorway for ages. My hands would get all clammy when I passed lorries.
"I get a lot of stares but I just laugh it off.
"If you're a woman going into it, don't let it bother you."
Trucking runs in the family, with Hayley following in the footsteps of dad, Kenny, 79, and her grandad Donald, now in his 90s.
Hayley, whose size is often age nine to ten children's clothes age 13 kids shoes admits she that she often has to laugh of some of the comments she gets.
"You've got to have a sense of humour to be a lorry driver."
Hayley one day decided to google the shortest truck driver in the road, which he Guinness World Record lists as a woman who is taller than her, so she is eagerly awaiting being confirmed as the new record holder.
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