Has Rosie been battering you again? :-D Yees, you can put L plates on an artic, you can even drive on a motorway. You must be accompanied by someone who has held a full licence for the clas for three years and is over twenty one. YOU must also have a provisional licence for the LGV, your ordinary licence will not cover you . In order to get the provisional you have had to had a medical. There is a special section of the DVLA to cover commercial licences, they are actually prity good. The application forms for the licence can be downloaded on line. You will also need to take the theory and hazard perception test. These must be passed before you take the practical test and are valid for two years.
Reversing is a specific excercise. You start with the vehicle bettween two cones. You then back out performing an S manouvere without hitting a cone on the right hand side. You then back into a a gagarge of cones stopping with the rear of the vehicle over a strip , one metre wide. You may shunt, but you must not touch any cone. The excersise concludes when you apply the hand brake. There is also the controlled stopping excersise. The vehicle is taken up to 20 mph and must be stopped in a controlled manner in a straigh line , normally in about 2/3 of the vehicle lenght. You will during the practical test be told to start the evhicle from a standstill, move up through the gears to a specified gear, then go down the box into first,without stopping or stalling and then move off through the box.
Here endeth the lesson! :drive: