He knew I was teaching marketing at the University of Twente, so we were just driving around discussing advertising plan for his driving school. Mine, for instance, did not consider me ready until I told him everything I knew about marketing communication strategy. It is the instructor who decides whether you are ‘ ready’ for the test. You can’t book a practice exam yourself, even if you are a middle-aged Russian professor who managed to survive crazy Moscow traffic, or an engineer from Alabama, who was driving from the age of 16. You still need to find a driving school and take a certain amount of driving lessons. Their pass rate is one of the lowest, 40%. The Dutch have the most demanding driving test in Europe. ![]() Some of my friends admitted to it only when I complained about failing several Dutch driving tests after 10 years of driving in Moscow and one year of driving in USA. All of it. My German friend used to joke: “ See this car with the yellow number plate? They give it to people who failed their driving test four times.” Indeed, a lot of Dutch fail their driving test, the fact that nobody likes to talk about. First, if I don’t know how to drive, why was I allowed to drive for the first half a year? If, otherwise, I know how to drive, why do I need to learn it? ![]() ![]() But after half a year your foreign license is not valid anymore, and you have to go to a driving school and learn how to drive. Oh, wait, not exactly: the first half a year after your arrival, you are allowed to drive with your crappy Russian license, probably bought from a corrupt police officer, or with your US license, automatically given to all kids who reach the age of 16. If you are from USA, China or Russia, they treat your driving license as non-existent. In the Netherlands, you can only use your driving license if it is issued in one of the EU countries.
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