| Driving for haulage companies might not seem like | | | | Chris Tarrant |
| the most glamorous of jobs, but all you truckers out | | | | You won't find him working for haulage companies |
| there should know that you're in great company! Not | | | | now, but the radio broadcaster and TV presenter |
| all of the world's rich and famous start out at the | | | | who is probably best known as the host of the |
| top, and there's more than a few who earned their | | | | game show 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire' also |
| living from driving before they hit the big time. | | | | served his time behind the wheel. Before making it |
| Elvis - the King? Or the King of the Road? | | | | big in the world of television, he worked as a long |
| Actually he was both, God rest his soul. A year after | | | | distance lorry driver, a security officer and a school |
| graduating from high school, Elvis Presley started | | | | teacher. These days you're more likely to find him |
| working as a truck driver for the Crown Electric | | | | behind a fishing rod than the wheel of a lorry. |
| Company. He was either so good at his job or gave | | | | Chevy Chase |
| such an awful audition that Eddie Bond, the leader of | | | | Funny man Cornelius Crane - 'Chevy' Chase - might |
| his friend's professional band, suggested that he stick | | | | be better known nowadays as an award-winning |
| to truck driving as he was 'never going to make it as | | | | writer, comedian and actor, but he can actually lay |
| a singer.' Well, what can we say, except that soon | | | | claim to a truly impressive range of previous |
| afterward haulage companies around the world must | | | | occupations in his earlier days. Mr Chase did |
| have been ruing the day that he cut that first record! | | | | everything from waiting on tables and working in the |
| Sean Connery | | | | construction industry, to working as an audio |
| Now, Sean Connery might have driven some pretty | | | | engineer, a busboy, a theatre usher, a produce |
| snazzy cars in his role as James Bond, but it wasn't | | | | manager in a supermarket, a salesman in a wine |
| always that way. Amongst a variety of jobs which | | | | store, a motorcycle messenger and yes, you've |
| included labourer, artist's model and coffin polisher no | | | | guessed it, a truck driver. Another great loss to the |
| less, he too was a lorry driver who must have had | | | | haulage companies of America but a huge gain for |
| the owners of the haulage companies in Scotland | | | | the world of comedy! |
| crying into their beer! | | | | |