Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will launch a consultation on whether to lift the Brussels-imposed ban on motorists driving anything larger than a 3.5-ton vehicle.
Mr Shapps believes lifting the ban could increase the pool of commercial drivers, boosting job opportunities and the economy. It could also help address shortages of HGV drivers because some may graduate to drive heavy goods vehicles.
That is madness!
A licence to kill people, you mean.
I'm all for this kind of initiative. Perhaps we could perform surgery? Butchers at least. How hard can it be?
Only a bloke that has never driven anything bigger than a minivan would think that anyone can just jump in the cab of a tractor unit. What a prick
smyth_rmd How about a Brexshit plan to allow primary school children to run government departments while ministers are running Ponziscams, or on holiday, or paddle boarding while Afghan translators are murdered, or swanning round TV studios, or meeting their dealer. PeterStefanovi2
Can't wait for unqualified drivers to be hurtling up our motorways with 4tonnes behind them
This government is a gift that just keeps on giving particularly when there will be a very serious accident, they will claim its our fault!
Suppose it will reduce pension payments too. There will be a lot more road fatalities
A 7.5 ton truck is not an HGV
Bonus? Untrained people in charge of potential vehicles of mass destruction? Shapes or whatever he is calling himself these days better get himself a good layer for when the inevitable consequences land.
Cue hundreds of small roads blocked by large lorries that can no turn around.
And remove the threat of a life sentence for drivers who cause the death of the public whilst driving
It's not HGV's, it's 7.5 tonne small trucks. I can drive one on my licence.
Is a 7.5t an HGV I drove one years ago on my car license. I knew they now needed a test but HGV?
LongfordLass49 The uk going back to 1996 in search of sunlit uplands 🙄 (what were the road death numbers like back then?)
I'm all for it! First Aid'ers could do brain surgery. Neibourhood Watch'ers could be armed. Model plane enthusiasts could become pilots. Kayakers could become Admirals. A car park attendant could become the transport minister (more Qualis than the current Incumbent).
How about wtf is with the recording of off time activities? We are out the EU and should not have to do it this is our time to forget about work
Mo people gonna die
RE: ''Brexit bonus' plan to allow motorists to drive HGVs without extra tests to help solve driver shortages' Now the UK is free of the 'shackles' of the EU, may I suggest that we get rid of the stupid practices of expecting doctors and nurses to have got medical qualifications.
This is insane! BrexitDisaster
Brilliant idea - let’s flood Britain’s already congested and third rate roads with a load of under qualified drivers to add to the chaos.
Meanwhile in British Columbia
Do they throw in free Yorkie bars?
OMG! Is Grant S aiming to increase lorry accidents?
You always used to he able to drive 7.5 tonnes on a normal licence till the nanny state stopped it .
Yeah......
Brexit bonus he's as mad as a hatter that Mr snapps or whatever his name is these days
As usual the Tories show little respect for human life in their never ending pursuit of more and more profits. They are despicable. FuckTheTories JoinTheFight JoinAUnion
Can you have a Big Dog with no licence?
poet_yorkshire A driver shortage they delivered!!
peterandann Tell me this isn’t true?! Aren’t we dying quickly enough for them? Brexshit ToryBrexitDisaster RejoinEU ToriesOut30 JohnsonOut194 GeneralElectionNow
But don’t we currently have low unemployment? Where are these people coming from?
So HGV licences were totally unnecessary & any clown can drive one now?
Mental
‘Vote Brexit - we’ll let anyone drive anything’
GregJansch Aye he's thought that through, all well and good him letting them drive thus endangering other road users and pedestrians but what's he going to do when other countries won't let them in?
Great . Now that we are free of that EU red tape we can abolish all motoring laws. Then we will have frictionless travel
Not a bonus..an act of desperation that will lead directly to death and injury. Rules and training were put in place for a reason
These Tory ministers are barking mad!
What could possibly go wrong?! 🙄 Will government be arrested and charged with public endangerment?
Oh my god. Watch out for aunt Ethel and her HGV!
Scary shit this
What could possibly go wrong?!
I did my cycling proficiency in year 6, can i drive a HGV too?
If the general public knew, and understood, just how much both the industry and some drivers 'bend the rules' already they would not even consider this 'Brexit Bonus', let alone allow it.
grantshapps clearly should be the minister for safety. He’s making transport more dangerous. Lets hope we don’t have a shortage of pilots next.
FFS
Omg!😱
Grant Shapps , if that’s the name he’s using these days does seem to like disposing of safety regulations put in place to protect us . He’s also cutting safety maintenance inspections and the staff to do it on the railway by 50% and they say you can’t put a price on safety !
Tories Fanning the flames of the bonfire of regulations and telling us it's a benefit What could possibly go wrong? I mean, maybe your average ford Ka driver could drive in a straight line down the motorway but try reversing into an inner city supermarket bay. Never gonna happen
Why not? We allow people to become MP's and Cabinet ministers with no discernible qualifications and that has worked well for us....hasn't it?
Most can’t drive cars 😂
Also, in context, amazing how many can't pass basic assessment for driving a Tesco or Asda delivery van..... From what I've heard....
Can we drive ships and planes too
What could possibly go wrong?! grantshapps
All these so called “Professional Drivers” prediction carnage😂. If you were that professional you would know that anyone who got their licence pre 1997 can already drive up to 7.5t. Guess what, we all survived then and we will all survive again.
What’s the point in this, letting them drive 7.5t won’t help it’ll put costs up again as it’s smaller and can carry less, furthermore they won’t be able to drive in Europe.
This statement is a bit misleading; I am sure it does not apply to HGVs only rigid lorries up to 7.5ton, which most of can drive anyway. What we need is government subsidized training with conditions that they must drive for at least 5 years or payback for their training
Brexit Bonus = Brexit Desperation Which in turn will be hailed as a Brexitwin Which we know will be a disaster waiting to happen.
More accidents bridge strikes ?
What could go wrong….
I drove a 7.5 tonne for years on a normal license. But a HGV is a different kettle of fish . 🚚🚛
Pre-97, was there a higher incidence of road accidents involving people driving large goods vehicles up to 7.5 tons? I appreciate roads were less busy but I’m genuinely interested.
Aka admitting they don't know what vehicles class as HGVs (over 3.5 tonns) Misleading by lbc or irresponsible by mr Shapps Hardly a bonus as its just re introducing the 'grandfather' rights on a driving license
BorisJohnson trussliz RishiSunak Conservatives Brexit gain…? This is irresponsible and dangerous. You are showing us again your lies and incompetency.
I’m old enough to have a 7.5 t licence and have driven that size vehicle. Imo a couple of training days as a license upgrade would be the thing to do.
Reckon there's gonna be a boom in chimney cleaning need over the coming winter with the fuel prices etc. About time we scrapped the meddlesome red-tape on child labour, surely? Another Brexit bonus!🍸🍸🍸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Another politician ‘shooting from the hip’!
I'm sure it will be fine...
I can fly drones ….. does that give me licence for a copter ?
Sure. Absolutely not going to be car crash policy. Pun absolutely intended.
In sure this will end well, just like all the other Brexit benefits that we enjoy so much these days 🤦♂️🤷♂️
I think some need a psychiatric evaluation before becoming ministers.
TonyP12490831 Another Conservatives idea that will cause deaths.
Wonderful untrained people driving lorries think insurance companies may have a view on this cunning plan.
Meanwhile DVSA seem to be getting ever more slap happy when it comes to driver error and fines - imagine how much money will be made with unqualified drivers when it seems even qualified drivers make so many mistakes
I drive trucks and this a joke , not only is it dangerous and could get people killed , higher insurance premiums here we come. Cheers for that
Oh, what can possibly go wrong with that plan.
Lol
What an excellent idea. What could possibly go wrong
Yet more Brexit 'Sunlit Uplands'....
“We are past the days when EU directives were handed down on tablets of stone.' We are past the days when EU directives were concerned with health and safety... None of that woke nonsense, now we've taken back control. Brexit... The fuck up that just keeps on fucking up.
Why not just let anyone drive anything without a licence.. seems to me where we're going?
What could go wrong
What could possibly go wrong...
Hard to see, like 'smart motorways', where this could possibly go wrong. 🙄🙄 Grant Shapps should be made personally financially liable for compensation for every death and injury resulting from the loony and dangerous ideas emanating from his department. Useless f***er
Tories brexit making the UK more unsafe in every way
'Brexit Bonus' - you're all going to die on a motorway, due to under qualified drivers of massive, moving bombs..🙄🤦♀️🚮 ToryCriminals WakeUp
Tory Brexit Party - a new shit idea daily. ToriesOut
What could possibly go wrong
Those images are misleading, it's not articulated HGVs he's referring to, it's 7.5t lorries...which many of us could already drive pre-Brexit.
Is Grant his name, the transport minister? Maybe he can apply for the job of an HGV driver - lead by example and all that. Not much use at anything else. Hope he doesn't crash his lorry on the way to Downing Street to deliver pizzas. Innocent lives are at stake after all.
Helicopter pilot here…never flown one before but fuck that woke bullshit
Again, the UK is demonstrating that it is incapable of making informed decisions and never thinks about the consequences. If you voted for them or support this, I have some magic beans to sell you.
This sounds terrifying
Great idea… until someone without proper training runs an HGV into the back of a mini-bus full of children. Fixing one cock-up with another is not an answer. BrexitHasFailed
I think someone needs to sit down and watch Top Gear's India Special from some years ago to get an idea of how this will go... hold on same Tory Gov. from back then...
Brexit jackpot is to be allowed to drive a tank on the motorway without a licence. BrexitBenefits
'Brexit bonus' - the right to be killed by an untrained HGV driver. Fabulous. Bring on the chlorinated chicken & let's party. 😢
Hilarious! So dangerous it is crazy
At last a clear declaration of a Brexit Bonus; the freedom to signify fly reduce competence of those driving large vehicles. Momentum at last…
Half the nobheads on the road can’t manage a car let alone a fucking lorry🫣
Brexit bonus as unqualified lorry drivers destroy parked cars as they turn corners, or worse, plough into stationary traffic.
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
If you see some of the driving on our roads you wouldn’t let them near a HGV …
Whilst where at it scrap drivers hours too, 80 hours a week of driving sounds fine…
I don't drive one myself but work with HGV drivers all the time. Seeing the trouble new drivers have reversing these things makes me think that even less training could possibly result in deaths.
Surely this isn’t true … please tell me it isn’t. It’s madness.
More death
Jesus wept.
Shapps will be getting the HGV drivers to drive the trains next, what could go wrong 😳
« Brexit bonus of unsafe routes with more untrained HGV drivers »
grantshapps I have a moped licence, can I fly an Airbus?
Keeping death ON the roads apparently 🙄
What could go wrong? AlexanderBorisDepfeffelJohnsonIsALiar ToryBrexitDisaster ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern JohnsonOut193
I think I'll keep to country lanes.
Because nothing improves road safety like untrained drivers in charge of 40 foot juggernauts.
EU wanted to allow UK cars to travel into Europe without stamping Passports. It is the UK requirement causing the holdups
My wife passed her test in 1980, she won't even haul the caravan
I can't see any faults in that, there's a pilot shortage, can that be filled by model aircraft enthusiasts?
Death on the roads abou to increase!
UTTERLY RECKLESS with LIVES put at risk
Brexit bonus
Most cant drive a car properly, never mind a HGV... Carnage
I played this as a child does that make me surgeon?
Next week LBC champions Brexit Bonus with dogs allowed to perform brain surgery. LBC explains how this will help reduce NHS costs thus allowing the needy (ie Conservative Party donors) to get much needed help from the Government to survive the financial crisis
Well at last the hapless grantshapps has found a Brexit bonus…… shame it’s a preposterous idea…. 😂😂
Fewer drivers because of being mown down by untrained HGV drivers? Sounds extreme, not so much sunlit meadows as horrific road carnage.
No they need proper training, lorries are already dangerous with qualified drivers, they just seem to care , drive at high speed
Sounds like a terrific boost for Funeral Directors everywhere.
Look, pal, I may be a bit bevvied like. But I'm fine to fly, no probs, its all computerised anyway..
I suspect the insurance companies might have something to say about this.
Presumably they will be driving around in the UK only, I doubt our European neighbours will allow them to take to their roads. 🙄
I can't drive but I'm shit hot on Euro Truck Simulator 2, where do I sign up?
Bonus 🤦♂️ how many fatalities do we expect from year one?
April fools joke ?
Sounds safe … what has the great country become
Children next
On went on holiday in a plane, can I be a pilot now?
It’s genius!
What about safety ?!
What could possibly go wrong? 🤦♀️
A 7.5-ton lorry isn't considered to be a Heavy Goods Vehicle, and anyone who passed their test before Jan 97 can legally drive one. If they are talking about real HGVs however, then it's a bloody terrible idea.
What could possibly go wrong?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lunacy
WTAF bit of a misleading headline on lorry sizes but why would you want to dumb down health and safety lower than it already is? ToriesUnfitToGovern ToriesOut29
Fruit pickers
There will be more deaths on the road the nutty ideas the tories are coming with will be putting people's lives at risk
That's fantastic, can't see any problems with that at all except for the DQC card which you must have with you at all times and the Drivers card that goes into the Tacho and of course the ability to drive an HGV.
God help us all
This is not a Brexit bonus as they like unicorns do not exist. It’s a lowering of standards because Brexit is a disaster. BrexitBrokeBritain
Oh, I've already got these entitlements on my license.
Brexit bonus. Extra carnage on the roads, due to folk without enough training, driving HGVs. Blue passports though.
Those Brexit bonuses keeping coming, often head on
Madness!
Madness 🤷
not to do with Brexit ask any lorry driver
🙈🙈🙈
People seem to think that whilst in the EU, we had no say in anything. In truth, most the laws that Brexidiots complain about, we were behind them.
Age restrictions ? Presume these are fixed chassis...not artics....?
Lord help us
Holy shit balls this is the dumbest thing i have every heard … so im guessing if train drivers go on strike again , people who have watched thomas the tank engine can drive the trains
That’s insane. Anyone with any common sense wouldn’t go near a HGV without proper training and a test. Nor can I see any decent and honourable company going for this. This government is absolutely desperate.
Bloody hell, that’s scary.
Rossmatthews86 I'll put it as bluntly as this...........People will Die!
That's the same focus this Tory Government applies to 'driving' the economy - what could possibly go wrong?!?
What could possibly go wrong? Thank goodness for brexit!
Insanity. Risking lives and public health to fake a 'bonus'. Scandalous.
How can that possibly be safe?
'Mr Shapps is understood to believe there is a strong case for returning to pre-1997 rules, where anyone with a full licence could drive any vehicle up to 7.5 tons.' Hmmm, why on earth would these rules have been implemented?
Until the road deaths from untrained HGV 'accidents', at which point there will be an expensive public enquiry and legislation. FFS. Brexit is SO shit.
Don't need a test when you're sat in that Dover queue
bobjmsn What a stupid bloody idea - but what do you except with corner cutting conservatives
Imagine Boaby the unemployed boy racer getting a new job driving a 40 ton truck. Aye nae bother. AholeCity
Great bonus - they’ll have covered. All the safety aspects then
Flip it on its head - this will severely damage our transport capabilities as we won’t be able to drive the HGV’s in Europe - it won’t help anything, but it will damage our ability to rebuild the shit pile the tories leave behind.
Good start, but how long until I'm allowed to drive a tank without training?
DANGEROUS..
How do people like grantshapps ever make it into government? He's barely qualified to be a road sweeper.
This has to be a joke…doesn’t it?
It's not going to happen, just like deportations to Rwanda didn't happen, and just like British farms weren't inundated with enthusiastic British workers eager to prevent crops from going to waste. It's all a big pile of relentless HMG bullsh1t.
Amazing plan. What could possibly go wrong?
This guy is seriously dangerous
Not many if any companies will take them on as their insurance will skyrocket
This sounds reasonable! 👀
Usual LBC leftie Bullshine.
Well, it's ok in the Dover parking lot, but nowhere else. these tests aren't to develop a closed shop, they develop and validate skills. LogisticsUKNews
Keep wages down Tory plan.
Is this idea by insurance companies? Run by bloody Tories of course!
30 or 40 ton trucks with four or five time the braking distance much less manoeuvrability no test and possibly no training. MADNESS!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
And next up, become a doctor with out needing to pass anything but ur basic first aid. This will solve all problems. Loads more doctors and more dead people to shorten the waiting list
A plan with no flaws😬.
Heavens
Fantastic. Should improve road safety no end. BrexitDisaster
Is it just possible that these ‘extra tests’ are a useful and necessary part of ensuring the safety of not only the HGV driver himself/herself but also the safety of fellow motorists, passengers and pedestrians?
Absolutely mental, this will cause problems just to make it look better on paper. How about an incentive for more retired drivers to set up hgv trainingbusinesses? The more trainers = more drivers being pushed through.
another scam made up by WHO? Lorries driving around England only then with the lack of training.
This idea is totally uninsurable. Fucking forget it. Not a news story.
Great! That sounds really safe !
Let everyone with a driving license fly a plane too, that will boost the tourism and airmail industries...
Why don't we just let anyone do anything? Wanna be a surgeon? Get stuck in. There seems to be no requirement for any knowledge or capability whatsoever to govern to worlds 5th largest economy, so why not? Burn that red tape! We have had enough of experts.
So they're going to allow people with just car licenses to drive 28 wheeler HGV tractor trailers ? There will be carnage !!!!
Surely this is bollocks!!!
MarcusFitzsimon What’s a “bonus” about that?
Bonus
What could possibly go wrong?
Get rid of the useless driver cpc , at least for national operations..
I watched a HGV driver reverse his artic into the tight loading bay for the supermarket. Seriously impressive. I would have damaged the multistorey car park, a few parked cars and God help the pedestrians. This government is unhinged. GeneralElectionNow
What could go wrong
desperate and bonkers.
Whilst we're at it let's let preschoolers drive HGVs, we can pay less and let's face it, they've already got their car seats
Not that they’ll be going anywhere anytime soon!
'Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and I'm about to take this HGV out for a spin from Dover.' MeAndMyFerrets
Average Joe motorist? In charge of a massive wagon like that with no extra tests? What could possibly go wrong!?
I can’t drive at all - before long they will let me have a go!
yeah, I hate to think about the cost of their liability insurance due to no qualifications...
We seriously need to rejoin. These children need adults to keep them right
I for one can't wait to be killed by my Brexit dividend while driving via Bridge End.
Total comedy. The Driver shortage is CAUSED BY BREXIT It’s not a brexit benefit being forced to reduce testing in order to solve a brexit problem.
Wonderful idea, can't see anything going wrong with that.... 😣
Should give the EU the middle finger by getting rid of drink driving laws as well.
Fucksake 🤦🏼♀️ By that logic I should be able to join the fire service - I know how to work a fire extinguisher
Safety and the law first as always with the Tories
What could possibly go wrong?
rosemarie_kelly They get more and more ridiculous.
Good luck to them with the CPC training (Currently compulsory) along with learning and abiding by Tacho card rules. The DVSA who pull commercial vehicles are funded solely by the fines they issue. They show no mercy and the fines are huge
I’m pretty handy flying my kid’s kite. I’m looking forward to flying Shapps’ private jet! 👍
This will not end well. Driving up & down motorways no problem. When u start driving around towns doing deliveries, parking, reversing into loading bays big difference between a car & 7 ton truck.
Why stop there? There is a shortage of airline pilots. Why not let those who have taken their cycling proficiency test fly commercial airliners
What could possibly go wrong ?
Because all the currently unemployed workers who don't want to fill the millions of other vacancies are just dying to try out a life on the road away from their families...
Lol. 'Can you drive a Fiat 500?' 'Er...kind of.... erm...' 'Great. Here's the keys to a 40 tonne truck... can you just drop off this cargo at a warehouse in Austria please? Ta.'
He is mad
Oh shit, haven’t we also got a shortage of surgeons?
Now not a Brexit fan under any circumstances but being allowed to drive a 7.5t lorry isn't exactly driving a HGV! I once had to drive one as having passed my test in 1985 I was the only one of my friends who could drive it, My friends were all better drivers then me!
I passed my test in 1991. That doesn’t mean I can automatically jump behind the wheel of a 7.5 ton vehicle. Ridiculous and unsafe.
Brexit bonus: we let this toddler loose on a motorbike
Aka making up for the fact 17 million people were thick enough to vote to ruin our economy.
I bet some boy racers out there would love the opportunity.
What could go wrong?
Can you actually have an accurate headline. “‘Brexit bonus’* plan to allow (all) motorists to drive vehicles up to 7.5t without extra tests.” *though iirc the rules predate the EU directive.
The queues at Dover are not caused by a lack of drivers. Anything but. Lack of drivers was last year's Brexit benefit. Keep up Shappsy! Brexit my arse!
I don’t have a driving license yet. Can we have the Brexit bonus of doing away with driving tests?
Oh dear... another way of saying BREXIT is an absolute disaster... Will current HGV drivers get a refund on the tests they paid for?
Bonkers idea and probably illegal. Shapps picks his moments to actually get involved with something about transport.
Does this mean that those extra tests weren't needed in the first place really .
WTF.
So Tories plan is to let the General Public who have no experience to drive HGV's?
More shoddy standards to put profit above people’s lives.
From 2 years MOTs to unqualified drivers. The roads really aren't safe under this lot.
I see the problem here LBC is saying HGV’s this is not the case at all, what is being restored is being able to once again drive vehicles up to 7.5 tons, not hgv’s. Driving these on a normal licence was common until the eu intervened and a lot of drivers lost their jobs.
Can’t see any issues that might arise out of this nugget 🤦🏼♀️
Given the lorries are parked up due to the queues and do not require 'driving', is it possible those of us who can't drive, don't have a licence and wouldn't know an engine block from a brake block might be eligible? AskingForAFriend (maybe)
Until they try and drive in the EU, it’s not going to happen.
“Brexit bonus” coming soon, doctors no longer need a degree in medicine?
Let the bodies pile high. Part 3.
I’m sure insurance companies will have something to say
frightening
What could possibly go wrong? Sebastian has our future mapped out 🎪💥
Please tell me this is a joke. Please.
Making the roads unsafer is not a Brexit bonus!
Lot more deaths on the roads then.
Good.
Lunacy.
I hired a pedalo on holiday once. If there’s ever a shortage of oil tanker skippers just give me a shout.
If it were implemented it would kill people.
Safety perhaps
Madness
Can’t think of a downside to that!!
I used to drive an artic long distance. It took me around two years after passing my test to be fully competent. Shapps is out of his mind
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Maybe he'll let me drive a car without a licence or insurance? 🤔
Apparently Shapps don’t have a fuckin’ clue what HGV actually is. HGV is a C category and 7,5t is C1 category. 7,5t trucks is not an HGV, it’s a mid size truck. None of the big retailers use 7,5t. Even if they do have some, their drivers still hold full HGV C license.
Jesus wept! BrexitReality BrexitHasFailed JohnsonOut ToryCorruption ToriesUnfitToGovern VoteTheToryCriminalsOut
Sounds dangerous
Jpofgwynedd Criminal Negligence!!
Dear Mr Shapps Please may I take up one of the RAF Euro-fighters for an hour or two? It's okay, I have appropriate experience When I was a lad, I made and flew a toy glider the entire length of our living room
Still be huge queues and even more danger on the thanksm
Risible
What could possibly go wrong?
As a Class 1 HGV driver, I'd just like to say that this is one of the stupidest ideas shappps has yet come up with, in a career pockmarked by stupid ideas and other non-starters. It highlights the desperate state we find ourselves in due to tory lies/policies.
No way will they be allowed to drive in EU Countries, plus massive insurance implications. A ridiculous idea that could lead to Motorway Pileups. Never heard such utter nonsense.
Sunlit Uplands
Brexit caused inflation and economic mess along with an incompetent tax dodging Chancellor BoE being scapegoated
WHAT ? Time to take our cars of the motorways if this is allowed. reckless and dangerous.
If they take brakes off the lorries they'll move faster!
🤦♂️ Ffs
What could possibly go wrong? 😨
EuropeanPowell
Absolute bollocks… as always from these Tory 1/2 wits
Driving a juggernaut is just the same as driving a corsa ...
My husband now retired has an HGV licence & he views this as irresponsible and dangerous
This transport Secretary is bonkers, this is a highly skilled profession, people will die!!
Just shows what a Wally grantshapps is 😂
The extra victims will get a Brexit coffin compensation?
EuropeanPowell Good luck with that! Pro tip: Take cover every time you see a HGV! Driving a car or driving an HGV are 2 completely different set of shoes.
30 or 40 tons trucks with four or five time the braking distance much less manoeuvrability no test and possibly no training. MADNESS!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱
Wonderful stuff! What could go wrong?
The absolute chaos that would cause.
what are grant shapps’ qualifications?
Road safety is overrated anyway 🤦♂️
The headline is not reflective of the actual story.
This country has become absolutely detached from reality. I mean for fuck’s sake.
What brainiac come up with this one? I've driven HGVs. I wouldn't have dreamt of trying to drive them without the proper training. fatalswaitingtohappen
State of the driving around the M25 is already awful so you may as well make it worse.
Should scrap the cpc, what a waste of everybody's time that is.
Health and safety gone. These charlatans aren't fit to run a sweet shop. Every feck one of them needs gone. Those involved in corruption while in office, those who benefitted from public purse through dodgy deals jailed.
Is it just me, or this is the stupidest idea ever?
🍌 🍌
So a Brexit benefit it more death on the roads. Incredible
Gov could always subsidise these courses? Correction - a friend of the gov to set up 7.5 t driving courses nationwide, THEN the gov to subsidise these courses. Silly me, that how it works...
I'm glad we have the brightest and best running the country. I feel so much safer.
Brexit Bonus plan to allow desperate Brexit architects to drive a coach & horses through health & safety legislation to help solve their credibility shortages.
Your life in their hands 🫣🤦I hope the traffic police and other emergency services are ready.
I'm pretty handy with a wood saw, any chance of being let loose in an operating theatre?
grantshapps will be directly responsible for the deaths of more people.
You must slow down, but we dont have any regulations on that.
What a great Brexit benefit, making our roads more unsafe 🙄
Totally accident proof. There is absolutely no way this could not work
You don’t need to able to drive the lorries anymore they just park up at the side of the road.
What a stupid idea…there are already enough bad/dangerous drivers on the road…!!!
What could possibly go wrong? How about letting anyone who has done a first aid course become a surgeon to help with the NHS backlog? Great to see Tories cutting through all this red tape grantshapps SteveBarclay
You must slow down, but we dont have any regulations on that.
So people who aren't qualified to drive HGV's will be allowed to drive HGV's to help solve a shortage? And they see this as as a 'brexit bonus'? utter charlatans.
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