Dodgy Driving Licences?

Originally Posted by skidmarx

What would you like to 'discuss'?
You have trawled thousands of internet links and finally found something that you feel comfortable with? Congratulations....

Discuss whatever you like about it, which is exactly what people are doing.
I just found it via a google images search when I was looking for a picture of a foreign license, read it, didn't know about it myself, and thought it may be of interest to people on a biking forum.
If it's not of interest to you don't read it, what's the point in making a sarcastic comment? There are some 'ers on this forum nowadays.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Is it just a non-EU license that you have to change within a year?

Yep, wifey can use her license until it expires, which I think is her 70th birthday. I suspect Lozzo's will be the same?

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Yep, wifey can use her license until it expires, which I think is her 70th birthday. I suspect Lozzo's will be the same?

That's an EU-wide thing. 70 is the cut-off point.

I'm not surrendering either licence, nor will I surrender either passport. It's dead handy having both.

You would be surprised at the good quality fake driving licences you can get online. Surprising the police do nothing.

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Have you had speeding fines from France and Italy come through the post then?

You don't have to check a license or plate, just a plate. If you're a foreign authority wanting to check a license, then you must somehow have those license details in your possession. In the case of speeding, you must have been stopped at the roadside, in which case they'll on-the-spot fine, or arrest you, not send the fine to your address. I don't think they'd try to check the validity of your license for speeding in a foreign country anyway.

As far as I was aware only Luxembourg and Switzerland were linked up with France in terms of the French authorities being able to issue a speeding ticket to a foreign number plate. Maybe more are linked up now I don't know. I've certainly set off more French speed cameras in my UK registered car than I can count.

Still, even if the French and Italians could check a license plate and send a speeding fine, that doesn't mean they can or would check the validity of a driving license from other parts of the world, that they were exchanging. Try to avoid posting stuff as fact when actually you have no info to back it up.

Can you back up everything you have just posted as fact? Your post is arguing his point yet you dont even know the fact?
And who are you to tell anyone else on this forum how to post? He can post what he likes within the rules as can you

[Swin]

Blimey - Ralph finds something topical and related to motoring in general and invites a discussion and some people seem to have got their panties in a bunch over it - this never happens on t'internet normally, does it?

Originally Posted by irons

Can you back up everything you have just posted as fact? Your post is arguing his point yet you dont even know the fact?
And who are you to tell anyone else on this forum how to post? He can post what he likes within the rules as can you

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

1. You don't have to check a license or plate, just a plate.

2. As far as I was aware only... maybe... I don't know

3. Still, even if

Oh, Hi Baph

1. yes

2. don't have to it wasn't posted as a fact

3. as above

My post is arguing about the license or plate thing, which is fact. The rest isn't arguing anything

Come on, you've been in the forum long enough under your old username to know what BASAT means.

Run along now Baph and stop causing trouble, there's a good boy.

[dyzio]

Ralph,
Don't you have any trouble insuring your wife on your policy, or doesn't she have trouble trying to insure her car?

Asking because a friend of mine was trying to insure his bike the other day and most insurers said they would not offer insurance till he changed his license to a British one, the ones that didn't mind wanted to charge him a few grand for the privilege

[yorkie_chris]

I've never been asked if my licence was British, or was it just because he sounded a bit foreign

[dyzio]

There's a question in the online forms: "what license do you have" Full UK, European etc.

I think they realised when they've tried to pronounce his name that he's not local