robinhood_1984:
Surely you could possibly buy a Czech licence with every entitlement on it in the Czech Republic. How would they supply a valid British one from there that wouldn’t be anything more than a fake copy and identified at the first roadside check you came to. You could ofcourse exchange a genuine CZ licence (earnted or bought) for a UK one but thats the only way you’d get a real UK licence from anything involding CZ.
For the 1k with all entitlements, I didn’t think for a second it would pass any sort of scrutiny, and would be clearly fake a mile away.
â– AL - Albania
â– AD - Andorra
â– AM - Armenia
â– AT - Austria (sometimes OE in German-speaking countries: for “Oesterreich”)
â– BY - Belarus
â– BE - Belgium
â– BA - Bosnia and Herzegovina
â– BG - Bulgaria
â– CH - Switzerland (from Confoederatio Helvetica)
â– CY - Cyprus
â– CZ - Czech Republic
â– DE - Germany
â– DK - Denmark
â– EE - Estonia
â– ES - Spain
â– FO - Faeroe Islands
â– FI - Finland
â– FR - France
â– GB - United Kingdom (from Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
â– GE - Georgia
â– GI - Gibraltar
â– GR - Greece
â– HU - Hungary
â– HR - Croatia
â– IE - Ireland
â– IS - Iceland
â– IT - Italy
â– LT - Lithuania
â– LU - Luxembourg
â– LV - Latvia
â– MC - Monaco
â– MK - Macedonia
â– MT - Malta
â– NO - Norway
â– NL - Netherlands
â– PL - Poland
â– PT - Portugal
â– RO - Romania
â– RU - Russian Federation
â– SE - Sweden
â– SI - Slovenia
â– SK - Slovakia (Slovakian Republic)
â– SM - San Marino
â– TR - Turkey
â– UA - Ukraine
â– VA - Vatican City State
It’s UK on my driving license, I assume the beans are the same?
As for the country codes I always put N.I. stickers on my trailer. Also on the Euro style number plates that were popular a few years ago most places here offered UK or N.I.
Tarrman:
There’s a couple of Czech lads who work with me in the warehouse, one who passed his Czech HGV licence back in CR and did 3 months driving and then came over here a few years ago
Tarrman:
I was just curious, what the deal with driving in the UK on a Czech HGV licence and why won’t anybody touch them?
Tarrman:
I’ve tried asking in detail but their English is basic, it’s hard enough trying to understand a normal sentance
There’s your answer, he’s been here two years and he hasn’t made even enough effort at learning the English language to be able to understand a normal sentence.
So why would I give him a job? What does he expect me to do, learn Czech to accommodate his unwillingness to learn English? Why would anyone give him a job? If he can’t even understand what his boss wants him to do, what use is he to anyone?
â– AL - Albania
â– AD - Andorra
â– AM - Armenia
â– AT - Austria (sometimes OE in German-speaking countries: for “Oesterreich”)
â– BY - Belarus
â– BE - Belgium
â– BA - Bosnia and Herzegovina
â– BG - Bulgaria
â– CH - Switzerland (from Confoederatio Helvetica)
â– CY - Cyprus
â– CZ - Czech Republic
â– DE - Germany
â– DK - Denmark
â– EE - Estonia
â– ES - Spain
â– FO - Faeroe Islands
â– FI - Finland
â– FR - France
â– GB - United Kingdom (from Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
â– GE - Georgia
â– GI - Gibraltar
â– GR - Greece
â– HU - Hungary
â– HR - Croatia
â– IE - Ireland
â– IS - Iceland
â– IT - Italy
â– LT - Lithuania
â– LU - Luxembourg
â– LV - Latvia
â– MC - Monaco
â– MK - Macedonia
â– MT - Malta
â– NO - Norway
â– NL - Netherlands
â– PL - Poland
â– PT - Portugal
â– RO - Romania
â– RU - Russian Federation
â– SE - Sweden
â– SI - Slovenia
â– SK - Slovakia (Slovakian Republic)
â– SM - San Marino
â– TR - Turkey
â– UA - Ukraine
â– VA - Vatican City State
Belgium is only a “B”.Hungary is only a “H”.Italy is only an “I”.Norway is only an “N”.Sweden is only an “S”.Slovenia is “SLO”.
Both Rog’s list and the DSIT list clearly show ‘GB’ as the letters to represent the united kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UK, as letter code itself, is not listed…looks to me like Rog is correct
GB might be used in Northern Ireland but Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain (Great Britain and Northern Ireland, geddit?), Great Britain means the greater landmass of the British Isles, namely England, Scotland and Wales excluding islands.
joeshell:
Re foriegn licences,my next door nieghbour in the Republic of Ireland was from Latvia,he arrived in the RoI with a Latvian HGV equivalant,was offered a job driving a DAF artic but turned it down,when i asked him why,he said he was given the licence by the authorities but only for use abroad,he has never even sat in a lorry in his life,his words,so■■? would you give him a job?
Before we joined the EU that could be done, not any more unfortunately
Now when you have your test, there is a camera with a microphone in the cab that records how you drive, so there wouldnt be any accusations that the examiner failed the student on purpose.
From my own experience I can say that it is easier to pass an hgv licence in the UK than it is in Latvia, because here(at least in Bristol)they use the same routes, did my class 2 and 1 and most of it was the same, maybe I was lucky.
GB might be used in Northern Ireland but Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain (Great Britain and Northern Ireland, geddit?), Great Britain means the greater landmass of the British Isles, namely England, Scotland and Wales excluding islands.
So why does it not say … and Skye and Shetland etc ?
GB might be used in Northern Ireland but Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain (Great Britain and Northern Ireland, geddit?), Great Britain means the greater landmass of the British Isles, namely England, Scotland and Wales excluding islands.
So why does it not say … and Skye and Shetland etc ?
Because it is not a Government department which specialises in technical geography.
Rog is correct though, GB is the code that should be used. In reality most just use N.I., UK or IRL. Technically illegal but hardly the worst offence the BAG are going to detect on a truck from here.
