madguy:
You don’t need to worry about work and money here !
As many have found just come over and sign on,we’ll give you a house, plenty of money, training to get a job that already have about a thousand applicants for and as a bonus if you let someone know you have six kids at home you’ll get even more money…
That is simply not true - as a Bulgarian national, the original poster is an EU national. Like all EU nationals, Directive 2004/38 will only give him, his spouse and dependants the right of residence in the UK beyond 3 months if he is working, self-employed or is able to support himself without recourse to UK social security and has sickness insurance. His rights to remain as a jobseeker would be limited unless he has worked for 12 months in the UK.
The original poster would need to check that there’s no restrictions on 2007 accession country nationals working in the UK. I don’t believe there are.
Don’t believe all the garbage in the right-wing press about foreigners on plenty of money. There are some who have done very well out of the asylum system, but these are few and far between. The system for publicly funded housing is being tightened up for everyone, including UK nationals. Where the UK falls down badly is in removing failed asylum seekers from the country.
Rather than complaining about those who are fully entitled to work over here or the European Union, how about putting pressure on the UK government to sort out the mess that is the removal system. Far too many failed asylum seekers are released pending removal, only to break their reporting conditions and disappear.
Madguy - if you can get a job in Bulgaria, you have every right to live and work out there. It cuts both ways.
To Peter, the original poster - I think it’s fair to say that the job market for LGV drivers is pretty tough over here in most areas. Your living costs are likely to be much higher than in Bulgaria and the journey over here can’t be that cheap, either. You may well find that you struggle to get even agency work.
However, if you can find work in the UK, good luck to you. If you don’t want to exchange your Bulgarian licence for a UK one, you must register your Bulgarian licence with the British Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency for any LGV (C1, C1E, C, CE) and PCV (D1, D1E, D, DE) categories to be valid. More details can be found here.
You cannot teach car driving for payment without holding an Approved Driving Instructor certificate, which would require you to pass the UK qualifying tests. So long as you’ve held your LGV licence for three years, I’m almost certain you can supervise LGV learners on the basis of your Bulgarian licence once you register it with DVLA - there is a register of LGV instructors in the UK, but it’s voluntary (unfortunately, in my opinion - I think being on the instructor register should be mandatory if you’re teaching for money). However, there aren’t going to be many openings for LGV instructors.
…and the chief of the PD is a friend of Ours. 
I have studied German fo 8 years, but every time we started from the alphabet, with a new teacher. 7 different teachers for 8 years. Education in BG is not what it used to be, anymore. It gets worse too. It’s going to be easy for me to remember what I’ve learnt, though. My grammar was perfect, but I didn’t know many German words.
