sammym:
He tried to get a class 1 licence on the sly. And he’s got caught. I honestly cannot think what his defence will be - unless he is going to claim that he really did pass a test over there.
What’s odd - is he was a HGV mechanic. I might be showing my naivity here, but I sort of assumed you’d need to have a class 1 licence to work on them and then test them after.
The ones who take trailers to test or collect them from customers have C+E. A lot, probably most, only have C and happily shunt trailers around the yard and into the workshop but never take them on the road.
I bought a firm out in 1976 and they had one fitter who I assumed would have had a Class 1 as they ran 5 artics as well as some rigids so during the first week I recall asking him to nip a couple of miles down the road to a customers premises and bring back T ■■ to the depot. He looked at me and shook his head saying “no can do” as he didn’t have an HGV Licence. When I inquired “why not” he told me he refused to have one on the grounds that his previous employer would have had him doing a bit of driving occasionally ! even though he was entitled to have got a Class 1 under the “Grandfather rights” entitlement that had been in force at the time . ■■■■■■■ unbelievable !!! Cheers Bewick.
Bewick:
I bought a firm out in 1976 and they had one fitter who I assumed would have had a Class 1 as they ran 5 artics as well as some rigids so during the first week I recall asking him to nip a couple of miles down the road to a customers premises and bring back T ■■ to the depot. He looked at me and shook his head saying “no can do” as he didn’t have an HGV Licence. When I inquired “why not” he told me he refused to have one on the grounds that his previous employer would have had him doing a bit of driving occasionally ! even though he was entitled to have got a Class 1 under the “Grandfather rights” entitlement that had been in force at the time . [zb] unbelievable !!! Cheers Bewick.
I can well understand his reasoning, it was almost traditional back in the 1970s for some firms to to go looking around their non-driving staff for someone to take a load to Market that night. Many were quite happy doing it, myself included but the rub was always that it was either expected that you started work the next day at normal time, or you found that the reward didn’t justify the effort unless you did do so.
From the point of view of a fitter, the job requires virtually the same level of concentration as does driving, and sometimes more. Add overtiredness to the continual interruptions to ‘have a look at this’ and serious omissions can occur. That apart one’s efficiency deteriorates with excessive hours so
the benefit to the company is reduced.
Shocking that is,A celeb expecting special treatment■■? The jobsworths at the dvla do not care who you are GUY ,Wtf lol.Get your cash out and pay ya tight sod .
I worked for many years with a hgv fitter who didn’t have any sort of driving licence, infact previously he had owned a garage business for 20+ years in a local village where he was the only mechanic and he had to phone his wife to come and move vehicles in and out of the workshop. She also road tested them for him. When he started in the quarry garage with me in 1975 (he would have been in his late forties by then) he was sent on a two week driving course to our own training school so that he could at least get a car licence, after two days they sent him back as ‘untrainable’ yet he was possibly the finest mechanic I ever worked with, but very slow and steady. Until the day he retired, and later sadly died, there was no way that he could get in a vehicle and actually move it.
sammym:
What’s odd - is he was a HGV mechanic. I might be showing my naivity here, but I sort of assumed you’d need to have a class 1 licence to work on them and then test them after.
Nope you don’t need a licence to work on them at all you can be just a mechanic/fitter maybe an advantage
Plus of course you only need a Class 2 licence to drive a solo tractor unit - which would be adequate for the vast majority of HGV mechanic/fitter “road tests” or collection/delivery before and after.
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
corij:
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
For non-readers and those with other literacy problems the questions can be read out, and even partially rephrased. Extra time may be available too.
I’m sure he would be aware whether or not he actually passed a test, so would be aware any forgery was just that, no matter what it looked like.
I’ve always enjoyed his programmes, by the by. He doesn’t seem some sort of mere fame seeking type. He seems more of a genuinely enthusiastic type to me. To have gotten this far the case may be more than a mere understanding by one lowly copper, but he hasn’t been found guilty of anything at all yet.
corij:
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
As someone with Aspergers myself I’d say that’s ■■■■■■■■ & shows how little some understand it.
corij:
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
As someone with Aspergers myself I’d say that’s ■■■■■■■■ & shows how little some understand it.
Ok Rainman, how many cocktail sticks have I just chucked on the floor then?
corij:
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
As someone with Aspergers myself I’d say that’s ■■■■■■■■ & shows how little some understand it.
Ok Rainman, how many cocktail sticks have I just chucked on the floor then?
Thanks for proving my point!! …I will have a guess though, none?.. cause ya still fiddling with ya sausage & telling ya self what a new era champ you were. Oh the reality of sharing a paddock with someone that CAN race!!!
corij:
was reading that hes got Aspergers. that figures. i know 2 adults with that and they cant pass a driving test cos they cannot read anything more than just basic sentences. they panic when theres a list of questions. thatd also explain why he sent in a forgery he would look at it thinking it looks ok but anyone else could quite easily see its a fake
As someone with Aspergers myself I’d say that’s ■■■■■■■■ & shows how little some understand it.
Ok Rainman, how many cocktail sticks have I just chucked on the floor then?
I wonder if this was a Irish licence or northern Irish licence, strangely you can’t come from any other part of the UK and do a test in northern Ireland even know it’s half the price. What they say is fake might be actually real, just not allowed. The same applies to the transport manager CPC.
