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B-Race Tuning wrote:as I couldn't prove passing tests,

My father never took a test for a car. Got his license during war when they simply gave you one! He has passed a PSV? licence for a coach.

I don't live in UK but is this some screw up when converting from lifetime paper licence to a photo ID licence? I thought with licence plate recognition that the police could TELL YOU if you had a licence?

Argentopercarter wrote:Still got my little red one!

And me...

Yes Mike, the licences were swapped from a little, cigarette packet sized RED thin book to paper sheet licences about 1968? (someone will google and advise). As I recall we went through two styles of paper licence then got replaced with a credit card sized photocard, supplemented with a paper "explanation/ record of penalties", that you could leave at home around 2001. Thereby your plastic licence will last longer than a paper one. Except, they decided they could make lots of money by making you renew your new plastic driving licence every ten years justified by the passport requirement that your features will change through ten years between renewals. An offence not to renew. If you kept your paper licence (you have to renew it to a plastic photocard if you change address/ pass another test/ want penalty points 'displayed' taken off etc.) then it is valid, and mine has lasted 19 years so far, in fair condition. Our DVLA have for the last 10 years or so, been committing every driver record to a digital system and from July 2015 they will have got this government, self funding department running on such a reliable, slick digital system that us, the general populace will no longer need to keep our own record of what we can or can't do. THE GOVERNMENT WILL STORE IT FOR US, SAFELY.
Me cynical?
S

PS. I knew if I stuck with it my points were irrelevant even if displayed on the licence. I've a clean sheet again now. (read as "not caught" as opposed to anything else)

a friend of mine sent his away for renewal , only just having taken a CBT , it came back with full bike license entitlement , was in quite a quandary as what to do , he kept quiet

^mate's brother sent off his bike licence to 10yr renew, came back with HGV1 on it. He kept quiet, but they sent a letter requesting return> Funny how they recognise it when they GIVE you an entitlement. S

i told them id lost my papaer licence ( i kept it as proof if they screwed up) got the new licence back all ok.

YAMLAM wrote:i told them id lost my papaer licence ( i kept it as proof if they screwed up) got the new licence back all ok.

might be careful where you post that, it's an offence...

Look out for issue numbers. I had my briefcase nicked out of the car and as you try and remember what was in it I could not find my licence. Turned the house upside down and reported it as stolen and got a replacement. Years later had an accident and produced my licence. I did not realise the wife had found the old one clearing up my crap and put in my desk draw. Thats the one I produced. Interview under caution for having 2 driving licences. Apparently its a trick they use one for points and one clean. Slap on the legs when I finally found the other one and produced 2 clean ones. They let me off for that but gave me 9 points for assaulting a fellow motorist with a Peugeot 406

you deserved the 9 points for having a Peugeot 406 (I'm anti 406's, one assaulted me )

rosscla wrote:

YAMLAM wrote:i told them id lost my papaer licence ( i kept it as proof if they screwed up) got the new licence back all ok.

might be careful where you post that, it's an offence...

I think he means that he temporarily mislaid it and then it turned up after the new one arrived.