4th time lucky for me today. I finally passed my Class 2 
. Over the past few months I have congratulated many fellow TruckNetUK newbies on their passes and imagined how good they must feel. Today it’s my turn - I get to feel that feeling. It feels so, so good! The relief, the happiness, I just can’t stop grinning 
I did it!
Very well done, congratulations!!
Awesome [emoji41] so happy for you, well done [emoji119]
Congratulations! Tell us more [emoji2] How did it go on the day? What was the difference this time?
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Despite the setbacks, I knew you would finally get there.
How much did you bribe the examiner ? 
Yessss! Congratulations! There is nothing quite like that feeling is there, pure accomplishment and hard work all paid off in the end so pleased for you!
Congratulations!
Congratulations mate.
I remember the feeling well.
You’ll be high for a few days and well deserved. Perseverance paid off.
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate it. I got to re-live it all when I saw ROG’s fireworks and Star down under’s drumroll 
I could swear I woke up smiling this morning
Congratulations! Tell us more [emoji2] How did it go on the day? What was the difference this time?
I think it was mindset. I’m reading Mind Driving at the moment and this jumped out at me yesterday (albeit after my test):
“Whatever mindset you choose to have, it definitely will guide every thought you have and every action you take”
I felt calmer yesterday. My mindset, for the first time was “I can do this, I am ready”. Previous test’s mindsets were “I HAVE to do this” - a bit panicky, “What will be will be” - a bit lazy and not taking responsibility, “Just do it” - a bit dismissive.
I was still nervous, don’t get me wrong, but something had changed inside. I believed I deserved to pass and could achieve it. I believed I knew what I was doing.
I found out when I got to the training school that my usual instructor wasn’t available, so I had someone else for my pre-test drive, and the vehicle was late back so we didn’t have long. I didn’t let that stress me out though. Maybe this change was also good in a way, as the change helped break the mental cycle of “here we go again” haunting me.
It was a gorgeous sunny afternoon and I managed, mostly, to think about just taking the examiner for a drive. When I caught myself wondering where we would be going and trying to second guess the test route I stopped myself and just drove to the conditions and tried to keep the overthinking nonsense out of my head. I even went somewhere I’ve never been before during training and that didn’t stress me out either. I had an examiner I haven’t had before and he was nice. I got 6 minors.
There were a couple of hairy moments - one right at the beginning when I was so focused on checking the pavement for pedestrians on exiting the test centre that I almost forgot to indicate out of it and the other was when I had to get into the leftmost of the right lanes to follow the M5 and nobody would let me across. I swear at least 6 cars whizzed past me. I almost had to say to the examiner that I’m afraid we can’t follow the M5 but finally someone let me out, thankfully.
Those words though, at the end…I turned off the ignition and before I could even take a breath, he just said it. It was an awesome moment, as you all know, so you won’t mind if I mention it again
driveress:
I’m reading Mind Driving at the moment
Brilliant book - I have read it a few times along with Roadcraft
Congratulations on passing
Well done on passing & getting the Fireworks post!
congrats !
TruckDriverBen:
How much did you bribe the examiner ?
That would be illegal, but there’s no harm in feeding some biscuits to the examiner’s guide dog. 
driveress:
4th time lucky for me today. I finally passed my Class 2
driveress:
Today it’s my turn - I get to feel that feeling. It feels so, so good! The relief, the happiness, I just can’t stop grinning
I’ve still got the grin that I earned in 1979.
Congratulations!!
Thanks everyone, and I’m so happy to have extra fireworks, dieseldave, thank you