Dodgy Driving Licences?

Look at this I found today

http://www.registeredabroad.com/eu/en/

Discuss...

Not much I can say that will not be removed by a moderator (blue).

This surely cannot be for real.

I want a slovakian licence!!!

Originally Posted by Registeredabroad.com

There's TWO ways to obtain a European Union driving licence.

First way is to exchange your current driving licence, you complete our application form and we print it out and translate some of your driving licence and translate the application form, put it all together and apply for an E.U. licence. This is a way to obtain driving categories that you select on the application form as the foreign issuing authority will look at the translation and not the licence

The second way is to make a declaration that your licence has been lost/mislaid/stolen in a certain country that we know about. No other proof that you have even passed a test is required, just your sworn declaration. They will issue you with a temporary driving licence which we can then get translated and exchanged for an E.U. licence. SNEAKY? Yes, but Illegal? We have been advised NO.

Some countries driving licence departments wont talk to other E.U. countries, so nobody bothers to check if the licence you present for exchange is even REAL or not, it could be a 20 dollar fake driving licence card and no one knows or even cares.

Driving endorsements are totally lost once you exchange your licence with another country, giving you a clean licence.

Who knows, if true, it sounds like they are just working loopholes the system.

[andrewsmith]

But if fraud by deception if your get caught and the Italians and french do check

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

But if fraud by deception if your get caught and the Italians and french do check

How do you know that the Italians and French check?

[andrewsmith]

They seem to do us often enough for speeding and the get a address you have to check a licence or plate

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

They seem to do us often enough for speeding and the get a address you have to check a licence or plate

Have you had speeding fines from France and Italy come through the post then?

You don't have to check a license or plate, just a plate. If you're a foreign authority wanting to check a license, then you must somehow have those license details in your possession. In the case of speeding, you must have been stopped at the roadside, in which case they'll on-the-spot fine, or arrest you, not send the fine to your address. I don't think they'd try to check the validity of your license for speeding in a foreign country anyway.

As far as I was aware only Luxembourg and Switzerland were linked up with France in terms of the French authorities being able to issue a speeding ticket to a foreign number plate. Maybe more are linked up now I don't know. I've certainly set off more French speed cameras in my UK registered car than I can count.

Still, even if the French and Italians could check a license plate and send a speeding fine, that doesn't mean they can or would check the validity of a driving license from other parts of the world, that they were exchanging. Try to avoid posting stuff as fact when actually you have no info to back it up.

[andrewsmith]

I'll shut up then.

But the first point still stands is that is fraud by deception if caught someone checks the licence.

I cant believe that this can happen. It says on the site theyve been going for five years, surely someone must have clocked on to this by now. I wonder how many of these "fake" licenses there are over here now.