System Training's Ladies Take Part in High Speed Charity Challenge

24/04/10

Three members of System Training’s female staff helped raise £600 for charity last weekend and proved to their male counterparts that driving trucks, and other specialist vehicles, isn’t just a job for the boys. Stephanie Norman, Lynda Gray and Pauline Hilton all took part in the Ladies’ Driving Challenge in aid of Grace House North East’s Children Hospice and faced lots of high-speed and high-skill driving as part of the day’s activities.

System Training supported the charity event by supplying two of their specialist HGV articulated training trucks and a team of their best driver trainers. More used to training lorry drivers for some of the UK’s biggest haulage, distribution and retail companies, System’s driving instructors were on hand to teach the ladies how to master their huge heavy goods vehicles.

The ladies joined 70 other aspiring females ‘Stigs’ who also took to the driving seat in a heavy duty crane, a fire engine, a skid car and some even topped 125 mph in a high-speed police pursuit vehicle. All the action took place under controlled conditions with highly experienced instructors at Albemarle Barracks in Northumberland.

Stephanie Norman, System Training’s Marketing Executive, said, “It was a fantastic day and great that we were able to raise money for a needy charity and have so much fun as well. The adrenaline was flowing during the day’s driving but we all came back down to earth on Monday morning. Working for a company that prides itself as one of the best providers of safe and fuel efficient driving techniques in the country is great – but definitely not as exciting as sliding a skid car or blasting down a runway in a police car.”