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Both drivers and employers risk Driver CPC fines “After September 2014 I will not be driving LGVs. Nor will many older drivers. Someone had better start training sprogs, because there is going to be a massive shortage of drivers!” Gordon “Would it have been so hard to add something like a ‘professional driver’ notation, next to the relevant entitlements on the existing driver’s licence card?” Graham B “Seems like a high price to pay if you forget/misplace your card, unless they make some form of allowance for this. A £1,000 fine? Send me to jail or put me on the dole, I’d be better off.” Cold_Rig More than half of cyclists admit to jumping red lights “Wow, at last. An admission that cyclists are a danger to other road users. If a trucker is stopped by Vosa for as much as a missed break by eight minutes; or forgets to show walkround checks on tacho, the TC will take your licence for four weeks. What does a cyclist get? A ‘tut tut’ from the authorities.” hgv123 “I grew up cycling in London, and quickly learnt that the worst place to be was on the nearside position. Now I’m a truck driver, I’m still of the same opinion; I’d rather a cyclist be anywhere but up the nearside where I can’t see them.” Graham