IT could mean she has problems with parking in York, but Jenny Horsley, above, may swap her Ford Fiesta for a 44ft truck.

For the 22-year-old, from Pocklington, has become one of the youngest women in the country to hold an HGV licence.

It fulfils a lifelong ambition, nurtured by her father Trevor and his Newton-on-Derwent haulage firm.

Jenny said: "I was always messing around with the lorries when I was a little kid and I used to go out helping my dad in them. I was the only one in the family interested, so he asked if I'd help him out."

The £2,000 test followed four lessons, each lasting four hours each.

She said: "I had to do a reverse into a parking bay, an emergency stop and an hour's drive on the road. Then I had to show that I could attach and detach the trailer.

"It actually isn't that much different from driving a car, though you have to be more aware of the width and length of the vehicle and you need to keep to different speed limits."

She now intends to spend weekends helping her father.

A spokeswoman for the Driving Standards Agency said 700 women had passed the test in the past nine months.

Updated: 09:38 Saturday, March 01, 2003