Truck Drivers Cheated with Driver Cards: Police Uncovered Abuse

Four men aged between 40 and 52 are said to have regularly misused truck driver cards in Styria since autumn 2024. This allowed them to bypass the prescribed driving and rest periods on trips abroad. They were reported, the police announced on Tuesday. A 44-year-old from the Graz-Umgebung district had also been without a driver's license for more than ten years and tried to identify himself with a photographed license of a colleague.

Car driver without a license stopped during check

At the beginning of October of the previous year, police officers checked a car driver (44) from the Graz-Umgebung district during a traffic control on Triesterstraße between Kalsdorf and Feldkirchen near Graz. He claimed to have forgotten his driver's license and vehicle documents at his company. He then attempted to legitimize himself with a mobile phone photo of a driver's license. The slightly intoxicated man subsequently got caught up in contradictions. He eventually confessed to having identified himself with the photographed driver's license of a colleague.

Fraud with driver cards uncovered

During the subsequent investigations, officers from the Kalsdorf police station uncovered the systematic abuse of truck driver cards in 19 cases. The 44-year-old and three other colleagues acted as truck drivers for a wholesale flower dealer, often carrying out shipping trips to Holland alone and disregarding all driving and rest periods. The same driver used several driver cards from different people. The men did not really show cooperation. They worked with partially false registration addresses and ignored summonses for questioning. The men only partially confessed to their offenses. They were reported.

(APA/Red)

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