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.

 

[snowhead]

Hmm permanently residence in France for 15years and has not taken up residency in the country he has adopted,

Yes I believe he has, but there was no requirement to exchange a U.K issued E.U driving licence, untill Jan this year, (at the end of the Transition period) just as there was no requirement for E.U nationals resident in the U.K to exchange their licences for a U.K one.
E.U nationals will now have to exchange for a U.K licence when theirs expires, as the U.K can no longer issue E.U licences.

And yes he saw it coming, as I posted earlier he applied for exchange over 2 years ago but the French licensing system got overwhelmed and the French did nothing about it, apart from stopping any exchanges.

His cars are registered in France.

 

[Mike Johnson]

If he has a Carte de Jour then he can apply for a French licence, irrespective if his licence is a UK issue, don't want to be unkind, but it sounds like he did nothing about it as well.

 

[snowhead]

The Carte de Jour is an E.U document so U.K citizens are no longer eligible to hold one.
All U.K citizens resident in France regardless of whether they have a Carte de Jour and regardless of it's status (permanent etc) now have untill July 2021 to apply for a new type Residency permit.
I assume because of that change licence applications based on the Carte de Jour will have been rejected.

I'm certain my friend and his wife have done everything they could do about it and will have applied for any and everthing they needed to at the first opportunity.

 

[Soi disant]

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.

It's called democracy - it's what people wanted to happen.

 

[Soi disant]

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

Yes but what was on the bus was written by people who were known to be serial liars and who were also telling voters not to listen to anybody who knew more than them.

 

[Mike Johnson]

One would have thought that during his fifteen years of residency he would have applied for a CDJ and pretty obvious that this no longer applies to UK citizens as they are no longer a member of the EU, but ho hum defend him away, he made his bed and now has to lie in it.

 

[Soi disant]

IF he was one of the spectacularly bonkers ex-pats who voted to leave, I wonder how he feels now?

 

[Mike Johnson]

Please everyone ignore the above and let's not degenerate this forum into a Political debate on leaving the EU.

 

[Zerax]

U.K law doesn't allow renewal of a U.K licence unless you are permanently resident in the U.K

I'd love to know what checks are made on that one... I suspect it's just a tick box. Whereas I suspect that in France the local Mayor's office will pay you a visit to confirm ?

 

[Zerax]

One would have thought that during his fifteen years of residency he would have applied for a CDJ and pretty obvious that this no longer applies to UK citizens as they are no longer a member of the EU, but ho hum defend him away, he made his bed and now has to lie in it.

It always amazes me how many brits that live in foreign countries rarely bother to learn the language... I have a mate that's lived in the Canaries for over 20 years... and I know more Spanish than he does !

 

[snowhead]

IF he was one of the spectacularly bonkers ex-pats who voted to leave, I wonder how he feels now?

Both him and his wife voted remain, as would the majority of Brits over there would have I suspect.

 

[snowhead]

One would have thought that during his fifteen years of residency he would have applied for a CDJ and pretty obvious that this no longer applies to UK citizens as they are no longer a member of the EU, but ho hum defend him away, he made his bed and now has to lie in it.

I'm not trying to defend him, Ho Hum, I'm presenting the facts.

 

[Mike Johnson]

As someone that liked to stay in France for over six months of the year but no longer can, I think we ought to leave it there before it becomes yet another Brexit debacle.