How has the Department of Motor Vehicles dealt with the issue of revocation of a chauffeur's driver's license?

Beamon v. Dept. of Motor Vehicles (1960) 180 Cal.App.2d 200, 4 Cal.Rptr. 396, is particularly apposite. At issue in Beamon was legislation authorizing the administrative revocation of a driver's license upon a determination that the driver was a negligent operator. As a guide in the negligent operator determination, the legislation established a point-count system to evaluate a driver's traffic record. The legislation also specified that the department was to give " '... due consideration to the more frequent use of motor vehicles by chauffeurs.' " (Id., at pp. 206-207, 4 Cal.Rptr. 396.) The apparent result of the latter provision was that a chauffeur could commit more traffic violations before being

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