Employer Pressure To Drive Works Vehicles; Can I Change My Licence?

[New POD]

Come to think of it, at a place I worked previously, there was a bloke who never drove the company vans as he couldn't or wouldn't produce his licence.  He drove to work every day though so no-one was really sure whether he had one or not.  

 

Was that in Runcorn? I worked with a few people who were as dodgy as fuck when it came to paperwork that proved they could legally be on the road.

[JohnDeere]

There are quite strict elf'n'safety rules about driving for work. Essentially your employer is criminally liable if you kill someone while driving for work. They need a whole lot of paperwork and to provide advanced driving training if they want to avoid this (although most don't). So try asking your boss if he fancies going to jail when you crash.

[alf892]

Aaah that'll be OK if it's that - we do our own CPC assessment as we have hundreds of drivers. 

Driver CPC thing is all about training............you have to rack up a number of hours training from an accredited provider. No training = no licence

 

I've kept hold of my HGV 1 licence but it is pretty useless now as I have no way of getting the training hours in and don't want to fund it myself.

[Taff]

If you take a firms van home , you're entitled to syphon fuel out of it   

 

in the same vein, if you have a rental car for work, you are allowed by Wiltshire law to fill your own private 5litre can up while refueling the hire car #fact

[worldofceri]

Was that in Runcorn?

 

Nope.

 

Refusal to produce your licence should be immediate dismissal.  I saw a drunk driver kill a cyclist in 1989.  He was driving a company van, which was a requirement for his job, but nobody had checked his licence.  He was serving his second ban.  Employers need to tighten up.  I'd happily produce my licence every month if it meant one pisstaker like that got caught before he could kill someone.

 

I feel I should clarify.  The guy in question had lost his licence through 'totting up'.  When he started driving again he just never produced the new licence to the company.  He was an idle sod and preferred to sit in the passenger seat smoking and playing cards.  He wasn't required  to drive company vehicles so he never did (hence relevance to the OP) and wasn't grounds for dismissal.  It just always seemed a bit sus that he drove his own car but not the company's vans.

[Tetleysmooth]

Surely, knocking the bollocks out of someone else's car/van is better than doing it to your own.

 

If my company told me use use a works vehicle rather than my own, I'd say 'thank you very much, guv'nor'.

[catsinthewelder]

I once refused to use the company vehicle. 

 

A teacher had misplaced the minibus keys at Rockingham Speedway and I was asked to take the spare set accross and come straight back.  Like fuck was I going to do a 230 mile round trip in a Daihatsu HiJet pickup.

 

The boss relented and payed me 40p a mile to use my Renault.