^^^ no problem, so long as they can do a sterling walk around box ticking exercise, they are professionals in the eyes of the pointy shoes…who wouldn’t know a proper lorry driver from a bar of soap 
We’ve got a Latvian at our place. Despite a glowing reference from his previous employer in the same sector (he’s useless, but give a glowing reference to do anything to get rid of him? 
), in the space of 6 weeks he’s been here he’s put the truck in ditches on 2 separate occasions requiring wrecker recovery and run it out of fuel once with a fully functioning fuel gauge and ‘low fuel’ warnings/flashing lights which also required wrecker recovery as it turned out he’d wrecked the high fuel pressure fuel pump in the process. He also drove into my unit in the yard whilst manoeuvring, even though my colleague was stood there watching him and screamed at him to stop 4 times but he just carried on regardless. Also smashed in the rear light clusters and ripped off the entire side rail somewhere, neither of which he can proffer an explanation for.
Needless to say he’s been relegated to the old and knackered 02-plate spare wagon while we source a replacement driver but he’s crying like a baby about it and says that he wants training up on the artics so that he can drive my pristine 580 on my 2 days off… 
. Yeah, no.
Natives of anywhere east of Germany = forget it unless you’re recruiting for a demolition derby motorsport event.
Star down under.:
EEs being? Presumably our equivalent to Sub-contentals.
We had one roll the second trailer of a road train on the Nullabor recently. He ended up diagonally across the road, with the second trailer on its side. Another driver ran to the crashed truck to check on the driver, as the truck was still revving. The driver wound down the window and said “Sorry sir, I cannot get out of your way.”
Another incident involving a driver of the same ethnicity ,this time in Sydney, tried to use a tunnell that was a little short on clearance for his B Double. To his credit, he did stop when he set of all the lights, bells and whistles. Traffic response, Transport Inspectors and the cops all turned out. They offered to close all lanes so he could reverse a couple of hundred yards, then they would open the gate in the dilineaters, enabling him to chuck a ewey and POQ. He was unable to reverse two trailers. He was then instructed to split the trailers and reverse them one at a time. He had no idea how to disconnect the trailers.
These [zb] come over here, cut the guts out of our rates and conditions, cherry picking the old men’s, linehaul jobs because they can’t reverse and have absolutely no idea on load distribution or security.
But they tell us that truck driving isn’t on the list of approved jobs for Oz immigration.When we effectively had free movement up to the 1950’s/60’s.Something stinks.