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Beware Eastern promises
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Eastern European drivers may bi answer to the current driver shot but how can we be sure of their ability and experience? Barry Pr' calls for compulsory testing.
Just how many drivers are we short of? 10,000? 100,000? 500,000? To be honest, no ones really sure and the numb( we come up with, while sounding impressive, are sometirr little too distant to comprehend. Of course, if you're on the out for drivers yourself they start to hit home.
Perhaps you have more trouble than usual in recruiting perhaps you have to pay a little more to get the quality you want. Or perhaps you consider employing drivers from what used to be behind the Iron Curtain. I'm sure there are drivers from Eastern Europe, be they Polish, Latvian. Czech or whatever, who are fully competent potential employees here's a shock for you: there are plenty out there whose dri is shoddy at best, 'if not downright dangerous.
Before anyone accuses me of sweeping general isatio: let's make it clear it's not an issue of race it's about standE We had a Polish driver who turned up at a local haulag asking for work. He was polite, charming and well present they agreed to give him a whirl. But the verdict after a shor drive was damning he wasn't just poor but dangerous. ipotential employers couldn't believe he had a Class 1 lice despite what his papers were telling them. Then a local tre company i know was approached by a driver agency to a a number of East European recruits they had on their book One assessment session culminated in a driver attemptin go the wrong way round a roundabout. Another was aske what his previous HGV experience had been. In response pointed to a passing Transit van...
Most responsible companies test potential recruits bef{ taking them on. But there are always people out there willin cut corners, so these disasters waiting to happen could en on the road. This could be avoided if we made sure that for HGV drivers were tested before we allowed them to drive ii country. And if they've nothing to hide, they've nothing to fe
"One Eastern Euro I was asked about hi HGV experience. H: to a passing Transit