Guardian Untruths Again. Lorry Driver Recruiting this time

[johnofgwent]

I've checked the DVLA gov.uk website and of course it is full of untruths


I passed my manual gearbox CAR test in July 1977 age 19. It would be another year and a quarter before I reached the 21 years min age THEN required to sit behind a seven and a half tonner. The website fails to note that on my C1E entitlement.


Also the bastard's have not fully restored my tank license.


I've had a full cat H since my late 20s when I took the option to get tested on a bulldozer as part of some training on forklifts and JCBs.


They took it off me when I had problems with the cataracts but were supposed to give it back in full. They've only restored the provisional entitlement I had in 1974.


I think a word is needed


Mind you, if the plod succeed in pulling me over for driving a main battle tank on the M1 ... It will be because I have run out of ammunition

[patman post]

A C1 category on your car driving licence does not allow you to drive a a 44 tonne articulated petrol tanker.
The must be millions of people in Britain with C1 on their car driving licence.
Whoever is sending out those letters is an idiot. (The "news" item is not just in the Guardian.)

Sky has an interview with a German resident in Scotland who received the letter. I'm guessing that when he and other Germans exchanged their German driving licences for U.K. driving licences, all categories on the German licence were transferred to their U.K. licences.


https://news.sky.com/story/german-man-who-has-never-driven-hgv-very-surprised-to-receive-letter-inviting-him-to-help-uk-government-with-haulage-12424127


I'm supposing that driving licences in the different countries were not all harmonised before 1999.


Here's the letter from Logistics U.K.  It looks like the full list of U.K. driving licence holders was trawled to find people in the correct age range and with the correct categories, not specifically Germans, and they were then sent the letter...


https://todayheadline.co/government-asks-germans-in-the-uk-to-drive-lorries/

[papasmurf]

I don't even know what the 7.5 ton category is any more.

C1 less than 3.5 tonnes unladen weight.

[johnofgwent]

A C1 category on your car driving licence does not allow you to drive a a 44 tonne articulated petrol tanker.
The must be millions of people in Britain with C1 on their car driving licence.
Whoever is sending out those letters is an idiot. (The "news" item is not just in the Guardian.)

I picked the guardian because it isn't a paywall.


I don't even know what the 7.5 ton category is any more. After all, when I took my test A was cars, B was automatic cars and D was motorcycles....

[papasmurf]

The text says that the UK government contacted a number of German citizens whose driving licenses issued prior to 1999 allowed them to drive trucks.



A) the small print says this was part of a wider appeal to anyone whose licence allowed them to drive a truck up to 7.5 tonnes.

A C1 category on your car driving licence does not allow you to drive a a 44 tonne articulated petrol tanker.
The must be millions of people in Britain with C1 on their car driving licence.
Whoever is sending out those letters is an idiot. (The "news" item is not just in the Guardian.)

[Thomas]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/01/germans-living-in-uk-urged-to-drive-lorries-to-ease-our-fuel-crisis


Another example of left wing pro remain bull shitbof the highest possible calibre


The text says that the UK government contacted a number of German citizens whose driving licenses issued prior to 1999 allowed them to drive trucks.


Except that


A) the small print says this was part of a wider appeal to anyone whose licence allowed them to drive a truck up to 7.5 tonnes.


And more importantly


B) this whole story has to be a complete f**king lie because if it were true they would have contacted me because in common with those Germans, my UK driving licence issued to me in 1977 permits me to drive such vehicles and I have in both a personal and commercial capacity.

project fear and rejoiner lies continues john.

I think it is going to take a few more electoral bloody noses till they wake up and smell the coffee.

[johnofgwent]

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/01/germans-living-in-uk-urged-to-drive-lorries-to-ease-our-fuel-crisis


Another example of left wing pro remain bull shitbof the highest possible calibre


The text says that the UK government contacted a number of German citizens whose driving licenses issued prior to 1999 allowed them to drive trucks.


Except that


A) the small print says this was part of a wider appeal to anyone whose licence allowed them to drive a truck up to 7.5 tonnes.


And more importantly


B) this whole story has to be a complete fucking lie because if it were true they would have contacted me because in common with those Germans, my UK driving licence issued to me in 1977 permits me to drive such vehicles and I have in both a personal and commercial capacity.