Driving foreign registered trucks
Discussion
After it was mentioned in another thread about the legality of a UK license holder driving a french registered car, I wonder about UK lorry drivers driving foreign registered lorries.
I have met a few who are employed to drive foreign registered lorries, and we as a company have rescued lorries that have run out of driving hours .
So whats the score ? Is it different for commercial vehicles ?
I have met a few who are employed to drive foreign registered lorries, and we as a company have rescued lorries that have run out of driving hours .
So whats the score ? Is it different for commercial vehicles ?
I'm just guessing here, but assume its legal. Plenty of british drivers out there working for foreign companines, in foreign registered trucks.
If the tour mob are flat out, they sometimes rent units off of a Dutch company in the same business, i drove 1 once a few years back on a tour.
If the tour mob are flat out, they sometimes rent units off of a Dutch company in the same business, i drove 1 once a few years back on a tour.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
He has missed the essential piece of info out of the original post.....
What he means to ask (I presume) is a UK resident trucker, with a UK licence, driving a foreign registered truck on UK soil....
In a car, that is technically illegal - in a truck, when driving for reward? I dont know.
It's perfectly legal for either car or truck, PROVIDING certain criteria are met - and one of them is that the vehicle is registered by a business in a country from which they trade. So a British driver using a <say> truck registered to Norbert in France is perfectly OK. Just as it would be if somebody worked for <say> Peugeot UK and was driving a car registered to Peugeot in France.What he means to ask (I presume) is a UK resident trucker, with a UK licence, driving a foreign registered truck on UK soil....
In a car, that is technically illegal - in a truck, when driving for reward? I dont know.
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