Photocard driving licences

One isn't valed unless accompanied by the other, (photocard and paper counterpart that is.

Photo to prove identity, counterpart for endorsements etc.

OLD style still valid.

Those that need to renew every 10 years count yourself luck, I have to do it every 3 years, and have to do battle with all the jobsworths at DVLA. Still having a running battle with them now (14 months later), if there is a single brain cell at DVLA then it's never in the department I'm calling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Biker Biggles]

Why is it every three years for you?
Are you Diabetic or are you about three hundred years old?

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Why is it every three years for you?
Are you Diabetic or are you about three hundred years old?

Sure am, hence a renewal every 3 years. Still having probelms now despite telling DVLA in June 2007 that I'd moved onto insulin. All to do with categories on licence.

Apparently I CAN drive my Police vehicles on blue light runs, go through red traffic lights (safety permitting etc), travel in excess of the speed limit AND (if I pass the interview) become a traffic/bike cop, become a Police advanced driver and get involved in pursuit situations (likelyhood of travelling at 100+mph - pretty high)

Apparently I CANNOT drive a minibus. WHY - I might crash it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Why is it every three years for you?
Are you Diabetic or are you about three hundred years old?

No I just look it.

Mine is 2016 some time...

Originally Posted by grh1904

Sure am, hence a renewal every 3 years. Still having probelms now despite telling DVLA in June 2007 that I'd moved onto insulin. All to do with categories on licence.

Apparently I CAN drive my Police vehicles on blue light runs, go through red traffic lights (safety permitting etc), travel in excess of the speed limit AND (if I pass the interview) become a traffic/bike cop, become a Police advanced driver and get involved in pursuit situations (likelyhood of travelling at 100+mph - pretty high)

Apparently I CANNOT drive a minibus. WHY - I might crash it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's because there are multiple people directly affected by your ability to control the vehicle when in a Minibus.

IIRC, the limit is 5 people (conventional car), and a minibus with, for example, 16 capacity is over the "limit" DVLA put in place.

If you wreck a police car at a million miles an hour, there's a good chance you won't kill 16 people. Ironic huh?

(My dad lost his PCV licence due to diabetes).

[Biker Biggles]

Its actually to do with license catagories and petty bureaucracy.
The DVLA puts blanket bans on certain catagories for certain medical conditions because the powers that be cant be bothered to assess drivers properly.
Driving emergency vehicles does not require a specific catagory on your license(rightly or wrongly)so there is no license catagory to revoke.What they did do a few years ago was issue guidance to emergency services employers to the effect that they should not allow insulin dependant diabetics to drive under emergency conditions.This guidance has been sucessfully challenged under disability discrimination legislation,and,suject to medical assessment,IDDs can now carry out their full jobs in emergency servises.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

Its actually to do with license catagories and petty bureaucracy.
The DVLA puts blanket bans on certain catagories for certain medical conditions because the powers that be cant be bothered to assess drivers properly.

I agree completely, and you said pretty much the same thing, only more succinctlythan I.

[embee]

Mine is pink and squeaky clean ............................

Only 1 year to go, then I can get rid of the babyfaced 17year old and say hello to the babyfaced 27 year old!

Grinch you gotta scan that curtains image in here mate