this story in the Birmingham Mail goes some way<\/a> to explaining at least some of those people\u2019s motives.<\/p>\nA Chinese translator, Peter Hui, has been jailed for giving people the answers as he translated the theory test for them. Police estimate Hui scammed around \u00a350,000 in 2012, with another \u00a325,000 worth of bookings before he was caught. He is believed to have made money from the scam in 2011 as well.<\/p>\n
It makes you wonder how it is possible for people to be so stupid \u2013 and I\u2019m referring to the idiots who pay people like Hui to do this sort of thing for them. It works out that Hui was earning the equivalent of about \u00a31,000 a week out of this. The story doesn\u2019t say how many translations he was doing per week, but even if it was 5 per day, he was obviously charging at least \u00a340 a time \u2013 and the candidates would have had the \u00a331 test to pay on top of that, and they still had to do the Hazard Perception part on their own, with the risk of failure that goes with it.<\/p>\n
The Theory Test isn\u2019t hard. All you have to do is read up a little on the subject. If it\u2019s too hard for you after that then you really shouldn\u2019t be let out alone.<\/p>\n
The report also notes a separate issue where an Urdu translator believed to have been helping bus and HGV drivers cheat has been bailed until September. Of course, this begs the question: why the hell was someone who can\u2019t speak English being allowed anywhere near a bus driving job in the first place?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I get a lot of hits from people asking various questions about using a translator for their tests. It always strikes me as odd that anyone who can search in English and find an English language blog should find themselves in urgent need of a translator for whichever driving test they are taking. Perhaps this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}