Before They Were celebrated - Top 10 Celebrity Lorry Drivers

Actors, athletes and mass murderers - it takes all sorts to drive lorries. With brief details of their involvement in the trade and subsequent celebrity, here is a countdown of the top 10 stars who worked as lorry drivers before they were famous, with varying degrees of success.

# 10 Chris Tarrant:

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This radio and television presenter, best known for hosting the Tv game show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?', pursued a estimate of jobs before finding his feet in television. Tarrant's former roles consist of long-distance lorry driver, protection officer and schoolteacher.

Before They Were celebrated - Top 10 Celebrity Lorry Drivers

# 9 Chris Eubank:

Chris Eubank is celebrated for being the only member of our list to have taken up lorry driving after he come to be famous. October 2003 saw a politically motivated Eubank descending on Whitehall in his personal Hgv to protest against the war in Iraq. The former world middleweight champion boxer ended up being arrested for blocking the entrance gates to Downing Street, driving nearby Parliament quadrilateral sounding his horn, with a knife in his pocket, and reversing into a delivery van.

# 8 Rock Hudson:

Hudson was a favorite American film and television actor and a romantic prominent man in the 1950s and 1960s. While Ww Ii, Hudson served as a Navy airplane mechanic and after the war he was a truck driver. His size and good looks got him into movies.

# 7 Chevy Chase:

Our estimate seven is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Before his breakthrough as a comedian, Chase worked as a truck driver, cab driver, bicycle messenger, waiter, busboy, building worker, audio engineer, furnish manager in a supermarket, salesman in a wine store and theatre usher.

# 6 Long length Clara:

The only woman on our list and, unfortunately, fictional, juggernaut-driving Clara was the star of 80s children's cartoon 'Pigeon Street'. Some see Long length Clara as an unsung feminist icon - her marriage to chef Hugo demonstrated a refreshing reversal of gender stereotypes.

# 5 Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson was an American actor of 'tough guy' roles who made his name starring in a estimate of major Hollywood flicks including 'The Great Escape' and 'The Dirty Dozen'. Before becoming famous, Bronson was drafted into the army and was assigned to the Air Corps in 1943. He started as a truck driver and then trained as a pilot, winning awards for good service.

# 4 Richard Pryor:

Pryor was the first African American stand-up comedian to speak artlessly to mixed audiences using the language and jokes of the black community. He worked in numerous jobs before finding fame, including truck driving and meatpacking.

# 3 Liam Neeson:

Liam Neeson is a movie star most well known for his role as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 blockbuster 'Schindler's List'. Irish-born Neeson once worked as a truck driver as well as a forklift operator for Guinness, an assistant architect and an amateur boxer.

# 2 Sean Connery:

This retired Scottish actor is best known for starring as James Bond in seven Bond films. Heart-throb Connery joined the Royal Navy after leaving school but was discharged on healing grounds. He went on to a succession of jobs, including lorry driver, labourer and lifeguard.

# 1 Elvis Presley:

The American singer, musician, actor and cultural icon took up truck driving as one of his jobs after graduation. The time to come 'King' drove a truck for the aptly named 'Crown galvanic Company'. Presley even took up wearing his hair longer with a 'ducktail' - the style of truck drivers at the time. A musician for whom a young Elvis Presley auditioned advised him to 'Stick to driving a truck, because you'll never make it as a singer'.

The Mass Murderer - Peter Sutcliffe:

Quite maybe the most evil and deranged nearnessy in the history of lorry driving, the 'Yorkshire Ripper' is far too nasty to make it into our top 10. Between 1975 and 1984, this lorry driver and former gravedigger killed 13 women in a five-year reign of terror before being sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail. On his arrest, Sutcliffe claimed that God had told him to go out and kill prostitutes. A sad fault on the good name of lorry driving.

Celebrities who were lorry drivers before they were celebrated - a heady composition of the talented, the eccentric, the unpleasant and the downright brilliant. Who knows what magical creatures are sitting behind the wheels of our country's lorries today?

Before They Were celebrated - Top 10 Celebrity Lorry Drivers

London Air, Road and Rail vehicle Affected by Snow

Many road users were last night stuck on motorways like the M25 that runs along the Greater London area. Some road users have been on the road since the morning and didn't make much progress into the early hours of the night and were mental of abandoning their cars on the M25. The worst affected areas around London were Kent, Surrey and Essex This morning there are many problems with the road networks in London and the main motorways feeding into the capital.

The M3 which runs from Southampton,Hampshire,to London has major traffic issues around the Bagshot and Lightwater region southbound into London.
A lorry has jack knifed in Essex on the M25 towards Canterbury in Kent resulting in lane closure for several hours. Furthermore the Dartford crossing Thurrock in Essex and Dartford in Kent had to be done for several hours for protection reasons.

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Many minor accidents in and around London brought traffic to a unblemished standstill forcing travellers out of their cars and walking for up to 12 miles home or to work. One of these was on the South Circular near Mortlake. The latest reports have warned about icy roads in all of the Essex, Surrey and Kent counties but no reports as such for Hertfordshire.

London Air, Road and Rail vehicle Affected by Snow

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South East trains have come under a lot of pressure from the collective with the help of the London radio station Lbc where the spokesperson for the train firm clearly did not know how many trains have been delayed from the night before and undoubtedly stayed put over night with passengers trapped with nowhere to go. To add insult to injury, the website had all trains running on time in and out of the main London train stations that they control from such as Charing Cross station and Victoria station.

At St Pancras International station there were many London chauffeurs and drivers from vast minicab companies waiting for hours on end for the Paris and Brussels trains that kept being put back supplementary more and some were even cancelled due to the tunnels being blocked with one train braking down in Ashford and with the excess trains coming into both directions from London to Paris and Brussels. All trains were full of passengers due to many flights from both Brussels and Paris to London's Airports Heathrow and Gatwick being cancelled.
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At London's Gatwick airport the snow was not easing off at all so much so that clearing the runways became impossible to cope and therefore the airport had to be done down until supplementary notice. This of policy put added pressure on other London airports such as London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow but even there the incoming flights from cities like Paris were being cancelled and diverted to other Uk airports such as Birmingham International airport and West Midlands.

Lbc radio station was as usual talking to many London Taxi driver and chauffeurs who were updating regularly on the latest traffic jams. Many Taxi rides became too high-priced to take with the London Black Cabs being on meters charging waiting time but there was an increased ask for minicabs and Chauffeur driven cars in London and the home counties where many habitancy opted out for a chauffeur driven 4X4 / off road vehicle to get safely to their destinations.

London Air, Road and Rail vehicle Affected by Snow