Companies considering employing foreign drivers are being advised to ensure they are made aware of all the relevant regulations before allowing them to begin work here.
The warnings come after a disproportionate rise in the number of eastern European drivers the courts are referring to driver education courses following drink-driving convictions.
Figures from the TTC Group - the country’s largest provider of the Department for Transport’s drink-drive rehabilitation scheme - show that eastern European drivers prosecuted for drink- driving are twice as likely to have excessively higher levels of alcohol.
More than 10% of the 1,100 drivers referred by the courts in June to TTC courses were from Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia. Of those, 28 had given breath samples more than two-and-a-half times above the legal limit.
These are truly shocking figures and not a very nice way of saying ‘thank-you Britian for letting us live here’.
So the owness has fallen on the shoulders of their employers who now have to shelve out money to educate our new visitors.
But there are other problems in the fact it is virtually impossible to check on the status of a foreign licence, and, as an EU licence holder, they can drive in the UK for up to three years, often, as this case clearly shows, in the dark
The Department of Transport is therefore urging foreigners to switch to a UK licence within the year by taking the UK Driving Test. .
Yeah right as if they would. Come on Guys, you have a duty to protect UK citizens. Make this a compulsory law please. Oh, and don’t you dare cite ‘discriminaiton’ as a cop out.
FemaleFirst Jackie Violet