Giving players a car when the player is already banned from driving

[public school boy]

Interesting point made on the phone in. Club statement needed. One might say that this is acceptable in South America.

 

[Kazenga <3]

Was he driving a club car then

 

[public school boy]

Was he driving a club car then

Club statement needed! Should have given him a Llama or Push me Pull you instead!

 

[Vegas Seagull]

If the club runaround is a 100k Audi

 

[middletoenail]

Audi Q7s do not cost £100k!

 

[Kazenga <3]

Club statement needed! Should have given him a Llama or Push me Pull you instead!

Or a spacehopper.

 

[BensGrandad]

The cost of the car wouldnt matter as it would be supplied FOC by a garage.

 

[SeagullSongs]

Unless I've missed something, I gather you're talking about Reyes?
I heard that he was only stopped by the police because he was driving about in his Ferrari? At which point they found out he was disqualified..

 

[Fef]

Based on the hearsay comment of some old geezer on the phone-in, who wanted to discuss a rumour on a topic which has still to be heard in a court of law.

Anyway, if an organisation makes a company car available to an employee, isn't the onus on the employee to declare that he or she is unable to drive it for whatever reason? Companies do not generally issue statements on their employees' transgressions of the law - unless it is high profile and of direct relevance to the employee's job, so why should a football club start making statements?

 

[Springal]

Based on the hearsay comment of some old geezer on the phone-in, who wanted to discuss a rumour on a topic which has still to be heard in a court of law.

Anyway, if an organisation makes a company car available to an employee, isn't the onus on the employee to declare that he or she is unable to drive it for whatever reason? Companies do not generally issue statements on their employees' transgressions of the law - unless it is high profile and of direct relevance to the employee's job, so why should a football club start making statements?

Correct! And club cars are Mercedes, not Audis.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Based on the hearsay comment of some old geezer on the phone-in, who wanted to discuss a rumour on a topic which has still to be heard in a court of law.

Anyway, if an organisation makes a company car available to an employee, isn't the onus on the employee to declare that he or she is unable to drive it for whatever reason?

Good practice is for an employer (and, indeed, any operator of fleet vehicles) to check the driving licences of all drivers permitted to drive company vehicles.

Not that we know that a company vehicle was involved in this episode.

 

[jessiejames]

Good practice is for an employer (and, indeed, any operator of fleet vehicles) to check the driving licences of all drivers permitted to drive company vehicles.

Not that we know that a company vehicle was involved in this episode.

The company i work for has a contract with an outside agency to check driving licences of our employees,this agency is used by some of the big transport companys in Britain but they still failed to inform us 1 of our drivers had just been disqualified.The law states that any company that employs drivers only need to check driving licences twice a year that puts the emphasis on to the person who holds the licence to inform his or hers employers.

 

[Muzzy]

Good practice is for an employer (and, indeed, any operator of fleet vehicles) to check the driving licences of all drivers permitted to drive company vehicles.

Not that we know that a company vehicle was involved in this episode.

I agree.

My company operate a six monthly license check up...

I have heard of drivers carrying on with driving duties after receiving a ban, including one bus driver!

 

[BensGrandad]

I hada boss who was banned for DD in the 70s who sold his car and bought another one and registered it under the name of an Irishman who ran one of his pubs at the pubs address. Then the man got a duplicate licence which my boss carried at all times. He was even stopped for abreatherlyser , which he passed usin g the Irishmans name. They didnt have photo ID licences then though and all checks were done manually rather than instantly overa computer in the police car. I am not saying it was right but it happened.