Driven to Despair - Report on DVLA medical section

jonesy5573:
Had my first 45 year old Medical Jan 3rd 2017, sent the form off recorded Jan 4th 2017, received new licence and DCPC card today Jan 13th 2017…phew!!!
BTW good luck lads with all your issues hope it gets sorted sooner rather than later.

DVLA are reasonably competent at box-tick adminstration which could be outsourced to the monkey house at Swansea zoo with no discernable drop in performance.
If you present them with a issue that requires analysis and a decision for which someone might have to be held responsible, thereby jeapordising a cushy job and generous tax-payer funded pension, you are in a different ballpark. Decisions are made that protect the intersts of the decision makers, rules and guidelines are bent and interpreted to come to a pre-determined outcome and if that chucks the career and life of a pleb truck driver down the drain its OK. We’re alright Jack.