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100 blotted copybooks
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If more than 100 boy racers had not blotted their copybooks, over 400 registered apprentices would now be participating in the young heavy goods vehicle drivers' training scheme. They incurred an endorsement on their car or motorcycle driving licences before they were 18 and were accordingly excluded from the Government-approved apprenticeship.
The law says that the first application for a trainee's provisional hgv licence must be accompanied by a group A licence free from endorsement. The show-offs have effectively eliminated themselves from the scheme and have done their careers no good at all.
Once a trainee has obtained the hgv provisional licence he or she is, like a dog (or bitch) allowed one free bite. A second endorsement means the chop.
But all is not gloom. After a slow start, 320 employers and 300 employees have now registered under the young drivers' training scheme. Nineteen of the drivers are employed by the Northern Region of Roadline, a recent entrant to the scheme and now its biggest user, which hopes next year to increase the number to 25.