I live here for 6 years and it’s first time my Polish ID caused any problem and I got extra hour paid for reading my paper - no problem for me.
she was right as your license is illigal and not conforming with the British Law;
A valid community licence issued on the strength of a driving test within the EC/EEA, will allow you to drive in GB for a set period. Alternatively, you can exchange your licence for a British licence.
Provided your licence remains valid you may drive in GB:
until aged 70 or for three years after becoming resident, whichever is the longer period
Lorry, minibus, bus driving licence holders (vocational driving licence):
until aged 45 or for five years after becoming resident, whichever is the longer period
if you are aged over 45 (but under 65) until your 66th birthday or for five years after becoming resident, whichever is the shorter period
if you are aged 65 or over for 12 months after becoming resident
In order to continue driving after these periods, you must get a British driving licence.
war1974:
to be honest i still think its a way of keeping your licence (sorry if this causes offence) but to me you could be caught for an offence say drink driving and potentially be banned, move like you say to ireland and start a fresh this is wrong totally wrong. its almost the same as foreign drivers who have accidents but are never seen back in the uk.
No offence takien, I don’t blame you for thinking like that remembering what opinion Polish drivers have here… But don’t worry, I am not interested in taking any points on, I had only 3 points for speeding twice and my license is perfectly clean in Poland for all the time I have it. My reasons are genuine - I just like to have my license for unlimited period of time. That way when I will be old, and my health will not allow me to work as a truck driver, I will be able to drive my Unicat motorhome
As for if its fair or not - blame Britain. Britain refuses to give any informations on their drivers/vehicles to other countries, so as it works on mutual basis, they don’t give anything to Britain. If I loose my license in Germany, the Germany will send that information to Poland and Poland will take my license away from me. Same with most EU countries. I am still not sure if German court is allowed to take my license away from me, I still think that they have to sent their decission to Poland and Polish court have to stamp it before it becomes valid. And vice versa, off course.
nearly there:
I wouldn’t let you on any British nuclear, military or government building. There ours.if you wanna deliver to sites like that I think you should be a vetted British national and I don’t care if it makes me Racist
you’re NOT racist for speaking your mind " when in Rome, do what the Romans do! " too much PC BULLCARP
Orys, I think you’ll find under UK law and probably other EU countries as well, you are required to exchange your “foreign” licence for the UK equivalent within three months of arriving to live in the UK.
2nd. I’m pretty sure the EU are working on a deal whereby if you get points in one EU country, they’ll be applied to your national licence. Not only that, but if you have a ■■■■■■■■■■ 12 points on your licence, regardless of where they were acquired, you’ll be banned from driving in countries such as the UK and Germany where there’s a 12 point rule as well.
As far as the power station goes, I think their behaviour could be classed as an illegal restriction of business according to EU law. And illegal racist behaviour under UK law.
I live here for 6 years and it’s first time my Polish ID caused any problem and I got extra hour paid for reading my paper - no problem for me.
she was right as your license is illigal and not conforming with the British Law;
You are wrong.
until aged 70 or for three years after becoming resident, whichever is the longer period
I am still much further than 3 years from my 70 birthday, so this is the longer period for me
In other word: If I am 20, I can use my cat B license for 50 years in UK and my C license for 25 years. If I am 72, I can use my Polish license here for 3 years only.
And that’s what say on my British Counterpart: exchange due 2025 (and only because it’s C license, if I won’t exchange it I still can use it, just my cat. C won’t be recognized in UK).
EastAnglianTrucker:
Orys, I think you’ll find under UK law and probably other EU countries as well, you are required to exchange your “foreign” licence for the UK equivalent within three months of arriving to live in the UK.
As my quotation from Direct.gov.uk proved, you are wrong. And it’s wrong for other EU countries as well.
2nd. I’m pretty sure the EU are working on a deal whereby if you get points in one EU country, they’ll be applied to your national licence. Not only that, but if you have a ■■■■■■■■■■ 12 points on your licence, regardless of where they were acquired, you’ll be banned from driving in countries such as the UK and Germany where there’s a 12 point rule as well.
In Poland is 24 points rule. In other countries are different rules. It is not unificated yes. In some cases, where countries have some mutual agreement, points and bans can be endorsed: for example if the Polish driver is caught speeding in Germany (or vice versa) Germany sends it to Poland and they send it to the Polish driver, who is then endorsed with the points according to the Polish rules for the offence he commited in Germany (it happened to my friend). Britain did not signed such agreements with Poland or any other countries AFAIK, so on that matter it is still an island.
As far as the power station goes, I think their behaviour could be classed as an illegal restriction of business according to EU law. And illegal racist behaviour under UK law.
But don’t quote me on any of the above.
Well, I don’t think that they were racist. They were OK to me, they just did not liked my documents…
orys just a thought but if they said uk passport why didnt you take your polish one? i am guessing that would have been enough? or if not and you do this kind of work regular could you not get a uk identity card ?
war1974:
orys just a thought but if they said uk passport why didnt you take your polish one? i am guessing that would have been enough? or if not and you do this kind of work regular could you not get a uk identity card ?
just a thought to save future hassle
Well, It was clearly said "UK driving license, UK passport or company id card, laminated, with colour picture, the drivers and company data. I don’t have 1st (altough I carry my Polish one with me all the time), i don’t have second (i carry my Polish passport only if I go abroad) and I had a third one, but they just decided that it did not looked proffesional enough…
anyway it’s first time in my 6 years here, and I got one hour paid extra for waiting, so I am not bothered about ME. I started this thread because I wonder if it’s fair for foreign hauliers that they can’t deliver there…
Dessy:
Legend Scania: Thanks, I am happy with my license as well, and unlike some comentators here think, I am fully legal both to Polish and UK law
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I wouldn’t let you on any British nuclear, military or government building. There ours.if you wanna deliver to sites like that I think you should be a vetted British national and I don’t care if it makes me Racist
Too late I’ve been to several already But that brings another question. We are in NATO together. British ships visits Polish ports, Polish ships visits British ports. Say Polish submarine is in Faslane, should I be allowed to deliver to it or not? Or Royal Navy ship in Gdynia? Who should deliver to it, Poles or Brits?
Well if its a British port then no I wouldn’t let you on site unless you’re serving on that vessel and I mean that for all nationals not just Polish. I think its a security issue and the EU have weakend our borders enough without out letting any Tom ■■■■ or Harry onto important sites but then I’d expected other countries to do the same
What Site did this happen at, If it is the same one I work at they have gone nuts over security over the last couple of years. Years ago if i forgot my site pass they would issue me with a temporary one. Now after working there 24 years if i forget my pass i will only get a temporary one if i can produce a valid photo id. Bonkers.
