Company Van/Previous Disqualification

[WarwickApp]

Hi folks. Thinking of applying for an electrical maintenance job with my local housing association. On their ad it states as a requirement ‘clean driving licence’.

Here’s the shameful bit. I was banned from driving in 2016 for a year, I was over the legal limit the following morning of a night out and was arrested for drink driving. Terrible time of my life and wouldn’t contemplate it again.

Its been just over 4 years since it happened, so on any insurance quotes I still have to declare it, I do up until 5 years after it happening.

Even though a disqualification certainly doesn’t look good, it’s technically still a clean licence, I have no points for speeding etc. Does anyone have any idea if I need to come clean about it should I be offered a job? Or should I perhaps wait till it’s been 5 years before I contemplate applying for such job? I have also heard rumours that company vehicles insurance policies will need to know of any disqualifications for 10 YEARS!! ? not sure if that’s a rumour though, can anyone shed any light?

thanks in advance guys.

 

[brianmoooore]

I'm still on the green paper one. Year and a half left on that.

 

[Zerax]

Oh B****r just checked and mine will run out this year.

Can't we say "Bother" anymore ?? Bloody woke millennials again...

 

[Mike Johnson]

Oh B****r just checked and mine will run out this year.

A search through my wallet (that has not been opened for at least a year) revealed a new licence need to push some more old information out of my head to make way for new.

 

[Soi disant]

As some of you on here will know driving licence renewals can be age related. ?

Shut up - I'm trying to pretend that I'm not approaching that date on my licence, and you aren't helping...

 

[snowhead]

Shut up - I'm trying to pretend that I'm not approaching that date on my licence, and you aren't helping...

So you're coming up to 70 then?

I've got an English friend who's lived in France for 15 years, he was 70 around 2 weeks ago and has now lost his licence and is unable to drive.
He blames Brexit, I blame the French for c*cking up the Uk to French licence exchange process.

 

[Soi disant]

So you're coming up to 70 then?

Well, yes. But in a time still measured in years, not months..

I've got an English friend who's lived in France for 15 years, he was 70 around 2 weeks ago and has now lost his licence and is unable to drive.
He blames Brexit, I blame the French for c*cking up the Uk to French licence exchange process.

The truth is probably that Brexit provided an insurmountable opportunity for both country's driver licensing agencies to do what they do best.

Can any blame be attached to your friend for not starting the renewal process as early as he could?

 

[snowhead]

Can any blame be attached to your friend for not starting the renewal process as early as he could?

He first applied over 2 years ago when the U.K Gov suggested it would be neccessary, so no, not for want of trying.
The easiest option would be to take a French driving test , but it's all done in French and he doesn't think he's fluent enough, despite being there on and off for over 20 years.
Just to add in the U.K you can only take the test in English, or Welsh in Wales.

 

[Mike Johnson]

In these wonderfully enlightened times I believe the driving test can be take in any language you want with the help of an interpreter all to do with human rights and equality.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I've got an English friend who's lived in France for 15 years, he was 70 around 2 weeks ago and has now lost his licence and is unable to drive.
He blames Brexit, I blame the French for c*cking up the Uk to French licence exchange process.

He should blame himself, the laws in both countries are quite clear.

 

[Soi disant]

Legal clarity does nothing to stop administrative lethargy.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Legal clarity does nothing to stop administrative lethargy.

How long did it take you to think that up, well I suppose it is April fools day.

 

[Soi disant]

Don't you call me April!

 

[snowhead]

He should blame himself, the laws in both countries are quite clear.

Yes they are quite clear.

French law doesn't allow exchange of U.K driving licences from the start of 2021
U.K law doesn't allow renewal of a U.K licence unless you are permanently resident in the U.K

So if you become 70 while permanently resident in France from Jan 2021 you're up the creek without a driving licence.

 

[brianmoooore]

There was nothing about that on the side of the bus.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Hmm permanently residence in France for 15years and has not taken up residency in the country he has adopted, he also did not see that coming with the advent of the UK leaving the EU? been driving on a UK licence all of that time ? Has he also got a UK registered car?