Miss England Finalist Ditches Modelling Career To Become Lorry Driver: "I Love The Freedom"
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Milly Everatt is hoping to encourage other women to join the industry. She us among the two per cent of women who are also HGC drivers in the country.
A Miss England finalist quit her modelling career to pursue her dream job - becoming a lorry driver. According to a BBC report, former Miss Lincolnshire Milly Everatt wanted to drive lorries, having grown up driving tractors on the family farm. So, the 23-year-old ditched her glamorous career to obtain both Class 1 and Class 2 HGV licences, needed to drive vehicles up to 44 tonnes in the UK. She applied for the licenses last year after reading about driver shortages in the country during Covid.
"I don't feel I have anything to prove as a woman in a male-dominated industry as far as my capability," she told Daily Star.
"However, if I can be continued proof that this is an industry women are welcome in and can succeed in then I'm happy to be an example to others thinking about getting into the cab," she added.
