Quote from site regarding persons whose licences were issues outside the EU & selected other countries:
5. All other countries Visitors
You may drive vehicles up to 3.5 tonnes and with up to 8 pbuttenger seats, provided your full licence or driving permit remains valid for up to 12 months from the date of entering the United Kingdom. However, you may only drive large vehicles which have been registered outside GB and which you have driven into the country.
Residents
Ordinary licence holders
Provided your full licence remains valid, you can drive any category of small vehicle shown on your licence for up to 12 months from the time you became resident. To ensure continuous driving enbreastlement a provisional GB licence must have been obtained and a driving test(s) pbutted before the 12 month period elapses. If you obtain a provisional licence during this period, you are not subject to provisional licence conditions e.g. displaying `L' plates or being supervised by a qualified driver or being precluded from motorways.
However, if you do not pbutt a test within the 12 month concessionary period you will not be allowed to drive as a full licence holder and provisional licence conditions will apply.
If you do not apply for a provisional licence within the first 12 months you must stop driving and obtain a British provisional licence with a view to pbutting a driving test. Provisional licence conditions will then apply.
Vocational licence holders
New residents may not drive large vehicles until they have pbutted the relevant GB driving test. Driving test candidates are required to pbutt a motor car (category B) test first before applying for provisional enbreastlement for larger vehicles.
For more information about how to apply for a provisional GB driving licence, see Section 8.
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So these chaps could have been legally driving and knowing sod all about UK roads!!!!!!!
Worrying this is.
