If you can’t pass the basic standards, you can’t get a new LGV, as Marts mate found out. For as long as I’ve ben driving LGV’s there has been a higher basic eyesight standard for LGV drivers than there has for cars.
BryanH. As you have an LGV licence, they don’t take it off you because your eyes are not up to the current basic standards, only if they are worse than the minimum standard.
I checked this out for myself a few years ago, when the new standards came in (rather the new application of the old standards). So, unless your eyes have become worse than 3/60, you are OK. If you are worried that they have become too bad, go n see your regular spec-tician, they will check you out, know about the new application of the rules and give you advance warning?