Will I be unsuccessful due to previous driving disqualification?

[lemonade30]

Hi

Before I start; yes I realise I have previously been stupid/reckless. Nevertheless four years ago I was convicted of failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis when stopped by police. As a consequence of this I lost my licence for nine months, was reported to my professional body and had to pay a fine.
I was thankfully not given any points on my licence.

I've been driving since the disqualification ended with no adverse incidents, albeit massive insurance premiums.

I have been successful in being offered a new job which is perfect for me, however this comes with a company car.
During the recruitment process I was not asked for previous driving endorsements. The company are aware only that I have no points on my licence.

The post is subject to an enhanced DBS and therefore my driving conviction will of course become apparent. To this end I've emailed the recruitment consultant to inform her of my previous disqualification and to ascertain it's relevance to the post.

I won't hear anything back from her until tomorrow;

Does anybody know if I should prepare to have the job offer revoked?

Thanks for any help

If they have not asked you to declare any criminal convictions then you have not lied to them. If previous driving convictions was a barrier then surely they would have asked this before the interview stage?

You've done the right thing though hopefully they will get back to you soon.

I'm guessing your offer is subject to satisfactory references and DBS?

It might be fine. It might mean they can't offer you a company car. I wouldn't expect it to be an absolute barrier to employment though, if they didn't ask about any convictions before.

Only a small company, but we've employed two people with previous bans for a job where driving was actually an integral part of the job.

It added a bit to the insurance but nowhere near as much as on personal insurance and nothing that would affect employment.

Obviously it'll depend on the employer though.

Thank you. That's been a great help.
The conviction has never been a problem whilst working in the same industry; it's simply the issue of the company car that made me dubious.

Its good to know the insurance won't be massively inflated. It's a large international company so hopefully subsuming the small increase won't be too detrimental to their fleet insurance costs.

Anyway, fingers crossed and I'll update tomorrow with the outcome.

Could you offer to provide your own car insured at your own expense, and claim an agreed mileage rate, in the event that the company car/insurance thing becomes an issue?

I don't know if that would be an option, but yes I'm willing to drive my own car and claim mileage if that is what it comes to, certainly.

How are the company aware you have no points on your license but not aware of the endorsement? If they have asked about penalty points I think that would have been the time to be open about the disqualification and they may find it strange that you didn't.

Our company have a very strong responsible drinking policy and if anyone was convicted of drink driving their job would be at risk, don't think someone with a conviction would have made it to interview. But we are a drinks manufacturer so our policy may be harder than others.

If you do drive your own car you will need to upgrade your car insurance to business use.

I was asked to bring my licence photocard to the initial interview meeting. The consultant looked at it and said "oh, no points, that's great" and at that point my previous endorsement didn't enter my mind.
It was only once my DF mentioned that it might throw a spanner in the works that I even gave it consideration to be honest.

Also for clarity I wasn't convicted of drink driving. I was convicted of failure to provide a breath specimen as I know them to be routinely unreliable (my father is a police officer)
I offered them to take a sample of blood but as I refused to use the breathalyser they didn't follow standard procedure and progress to take blood. I argued my case through the courts for six months so whereas I committed the offence in June, I wasn't disqualified until the following December.

In any case I suppose it's largely academic. I made a grave error in judgement and if the consequences cost me this opportunity then its yet another harsh lesson learned and I'll have to take it on the chin.

I'm hoping that as the position is in health care and I haven't been embroiled in further alcohol related misdemeanours in the last four years that I've still got a chance of being accepted for the role.

Fingers crossed.

Thankfully this hasn't been a barrier to employment.
I've had to answer some questions relating to my conviction for the purposes of insurance but the job offer has not been revoked.

Many thanks for all of your help

Congratulations! That's excellent news :)

I clicked to say it isn't a problem for us as long as the conviction is disclosed on the appropriate form for insurance purposes.

Congratulations! Really please for you

Thank you.
Very kind of you to say so