Here are a few bits of information, regarding foreign drivers, when I was in charge of a driver training academy, this was for advanced drivers for Heavy Goods, these students were leaving the Armed Forces returning to civvy Street, my task was teaching, instructing and giving lectures regarding the real world of what is now called logistics, teaching future trainers, transport managers, and most of all HGV drivers, most these students yes could drive but the armed forces vehicles are not the same as civilian vehicles. My training vehicle has 16 gears, sleeper cabin, attached to a fully loaded 45-foot-long (13.5 m) trailer and 13ft2. (4m) height, these vehicles had been on regular runs to Europe, with me teaching drivers how to operate in Europe, road signs, driving hours, and dealing with paperwork, refuelling, breakdowns, and of course, the police, when arriving back into the UK, customs, and our government official at the roadside, checking on vehicle safety, weight of the vehicle, drivers legal requirements, tachograph records, the job is a very complicated system of legal requirements, even be few minute over your driving hours can cost you your job and indeed licence, yet and it is a big yet, foreign drivers get away with all of this, mostly complain can’t understand our language, or rules, yet 90% all can speak perfect English when they are loading or unloading, yes our new system has check points with weighbridges and translators ever mobile courts to fine the driver or even seize the vehicle, but alas these are very rare, and the DVLA has reduced all their staffing so we are all at risk other drivers driving for very long hours and causing accidents (not incidents) 80% of your Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, drivers are al agency drivers and mostly Polish or Romanian, the Government asked me to teach these drivers and my other teaching discipline, is Dangerous Goods, Tankers, and any vehicle carrying , Chemicals or liquids, Petrol etc. and powders. My answer was yes ONLY if they could "Speak, Read, and Write ENGLISH, THEY DECLINED! And that was that. Look at our bridges, see if you can find the signs saying their height, now imagine you are a foreign driver doing 53 miles per hour and you have a few seconds to work it out the height of your trailer and the height of that bridge, too late for many, lots of your ASDA trailers are very high some are 16feet high (4.8m) other may be 15ft3 or (4.6m) Here is a bit of a quiz for you all, if you are going down Bensham Bank towards the Team Valley, you have 3 bridges on Bensham Road, then Lobley Hill Road the first one is not marked at all it is pained Green no marking yet is 16ft, The next bridge is marked yet is 16ft (4.8Mm) the last one the third one is 14ft 9 (4.9m) that is the one that keeps getting bashed, now the rules were all bridges under 16ft 6 inches (5.03m) must be marked, I have spoken to the highways and council get no HELP AT ALL. Hope you enjoyed my few lines.