COMMERCIAL MOTOR
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORNTHE FREIGHT Transport Association has called on continental European Union Member States to make use of new powers to screen the qualifications and experience non-EU lorry drivers, weeding out competing companies who may employ cheap unskilled labour from eastern Europe and Turkey.Its call follows the coming into force last month of a new EU law allowing them to introduce driver attestation procedures for non-EU drivers. Britain refuses to issue permits to drivers who are not EU citizens, but other Member States do allow them to ...
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