Photocard driving licences

Funnily enough, just posted mine off today. Bloody £17.50 plus the cost of the photo!!!! robbing gits.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

STUFF.........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.

This is my beef with DVLA, and BB is absolutely spot on.

I have a good relationship with my force occupational health dept. Very nice people who listen to me and assess accordingly. Dr Khan the Occ Heath Dr can see no reason why, as long as I maintain good control of my diabetes, am fully aware of the signs of hypoglycemia and carry some fast acting carbs (keep packet of lucozade tablets in stab vest pocket), I cannot retain my driving authority.

Why oh why can't DVLA be the same. At the end of the day "IF" I had an accident in an emergency services vehicle and killed someone (as a result of my diabetes, hypo etc), then my Chief Constable will no doubt not accept any responsibilty for allowing me to drive. WHY, because a professional Dr has given his opinion the I am safe to do so, and it would fall back to the Dr (of course it would be my fault etc), but the person who signs me off as allowed to drive would no doubt be implicated.

Surely DVLA could do the same, accept a letter from my diabetes specialist at the hospital, as well as my Occ Health Doctor and allow me to retain my entitlement to drive minibuses etc.

On a side note, when I did query with DVLA how to overturn this decision I was informed that I could do it if I challenged the Secretary of State in court. But in the same breath the young lad said "NO ONE HAS EVER BEATEN THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN COURT BEFORE". Scare tactics?????"

mine expires 2041???

21/02/17 for me

Originally Posted by sv-robo

mine expires 2041???

You sure you're not looking at the wrong date?
It's the date next to 4b on the front of the licence apparently.
(Mine would be 15/01/2061 if I went by the dates on the back )

Originally Posted by joshmac

You sure you're not looking at the wrong date?
It's the date next to 4b on the front of the licence apparently.
(Mine would be 15/01/1961 if I went by the dates on the back )

The expiry date on the back is 2061, not 1961. That is when your licence expires on your 70th birthday, after which I think you need a doctor to confirm you're still safe to drive. The date on 4b is when the photocard licence expires.

17/2/2010 for my photocard, ten years since my car test.

Originally Posted by GordonM

The expiry date on the back is 2061, not 1961. That is when your licence expires on your 70th birthday, after which I think you need a doctor to confirm you're still safe to drive. The date on 4b is when the photocard licence expires.

17/2/2010 for my photocard, ten years since my car test.

Woops. That's obviously what I meant
I was rushing, well done for spotting that deliberate mistake

15.11.11 here.

Good shout though as I never knew this