{"id":172782,"date":"2023-03-21T18:43:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=172782"},"modified":"2023-03-21T18:43:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:43:55","slug":"smallest-lorry-driver-swapped-dog-training-for-the-road-after-facing-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/smallest-lorry-driver-swapped-dog-training-for-the-road-after-facing-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Smallest lorry driver swapped dog training for the road after facing fears"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman who collided with a lorry while driving and developed a deep routed fear now works as the world's smallest lorry driver.<\/p>\n

Hayley Hume, 40, would get clammy hands whenever she saw a lorry following a nasty crash in 2008.<\/p>\n

To help her get over her fear, she went out with her cousin Kyle, himself a truck driver, to overcome her phobia.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

But she says she has no regrets and loves being one of the smallest truck drivers around.<\/p>\n

Hayley from Bakewell, Derbyshire, said: "I love being high up. It's like being in my own little castle.<\/p>\n

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