It"s time for action…
I"m a female driver, have been for 20 years next year, I"m out all week every week Tramping on a curtain side Artic. Everywhere I collect and deliver, and every truck stop I stay at, I hear the same conversation over and over…British drivers, shunters and warehouse staff always complaining about the foreign drivers that can"t drive!! They can!t drive because they have never had training nor sat a test…They brag about buying their fake HGV licences for peanuts in their home countries, then come over here and they are allowed to drive for British Companies on these fake licences. We all know its happening and it"s about time we got together to stop this happening.
DVSA have stated that over the next 5 years 44,000 British Class C+E Drivers will be retiring…Who is going to replace them?? I, personally, have several friends and family members who want to be Truckers, but, the cost of getting the Class C+E licence is so expensive now it"s not an option for them, and they all say it"s not worth all the expense with the risk of not getting work because of all the foreign drivers taking the jobs…
It"s time we did something to help our own…
I want to start a petition to make it mandatory for all nationalities to take a British HGV Test and obtain a British HGV Licence to be able to drive and work for a British Company…
I"m not professing to know how to go about starting a petition nor whom to present it to…Hence writing this thread asking for help!!
Please, if any of you know how to go about making a petition, or you know someone who knows, Please let me know so I can get the ball rolling…Thanks…
N.B. I am not insinuating in any way that ALL Foreign Drivers working in this country are doing so on fake Licences, and those that have legitimately trained and gained their HGV Licences in their home countries should have no reservations about repeating the test here!!!