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I'd like it to be a bit more often than that for professional drivers actually. A full on driving test each time might be a bit excessive, but some kind of regular "human MOT" would be good.
In particular I am thinking of that bin lorry driver in Glasgow who "blacked out" behind the wheel.
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that case was a fucking disgrace. The procurator fiscal made the inexplicable decision not to prosecute the driver-opening up speculation that if he'd been found guilty the Council would have themselves been open to negligence charges for failing to check his background record before employing him. The civil case then failed, and the cunt was seen driving uninsured and unlicensed to the shops and back...
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I would support mandatory re-tests every 10 years for class B licenses, every 5 years for B+E, C and D, and class B every 5 years for drivers aged 60+. An recently-issued eye-test report should be a pre-requisite for re-tests.