{"id":874,"date":"2012-09-04T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/news\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-09-04T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:06:08","slug":"french-fines-for-having-no-breathalyser-in-your-cab-from-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/french-fines-for-having-no-breathalyser-in-your-cab-from-november\/","title":{"rendered":"French fines for having no breathalyser in your cab from November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International hauliers and drivers have been reminded that the French authorities will begin imposing fines on anyone found not to be carrying breathalysers in their cabs from November.<\/p>\n<p>The law changed in July, requiring that all motorists, including freight drivers, travelling through France carry at least one government approved breathalyser.<\/p>\n<p>However, a period of grace will come to an end in a matter of weeks, and anyone found not to be carrying one from 1 November will face an \u20ac11 (\u00a38.70) fine.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iam.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Advanced Motorists<\/a> survey found that 50% of drivers were unaware of the change in law.<\/p>\n<p>Breathalyser producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcosense.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AlcoSense<\/a> has warned that only kits with the blue NF logo, showing that they conform to the French standards, will be accepted by the Gendarmerie.<\/p>\n<p>Disposable kits can be bought for around \u00a32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International hauliers and drivers have been reminded that the French authorities will begin imposing fines on anyone found not to be carrying breathalysers in their cabs from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-30 03:34:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surreyandhampshirehgvtraining.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}