Tired foreign truck drivers have been pleading with UK police to arrest them so they can get some food and sleep, says a senior officer. Chief superintendent Geraint Anwyl, chairman of the National Roads Policing Intelligence Forum, says drivers have been phoning forces across Britain to ask to spend the night in jail so they can take a break from driving, despite the fact it also means paying a fine. The drivers give details of their registration and where they are.
They are often discovered
to have been driving unsafe vehicles for 30 hours without a break, and are then arrested and charged with failing to keep a proper driving record or ignoring tachograph readings. Anwyl says: "They say, 'I am tired. I have been driving for so many hours, please stop me because I'm dangerous. If you do, I promise I'll never work for this company again.'"
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