Ageing drivers and driver shortage

kevmac47:

no1dieselman:
What would help would be relaxing the medical requirements for older drivers. Our retirement age keeps getting pushed up as we are fitter for longer, licensing should reflect this too.

The medical isn’t any more stringent for older drivers than anyone else, I’m 71 and have kept my licence. My main beef is the cost, my own doctor wants £130 every year :open_mouth: :open_mouth: fortunately there is a transport training facility near to me which has a doctor who conducts medicals at £55. I don’t think I would have kept my licence up if I had to pay £130 every year. I’m not interested renewing drivers cpc which runs out this year, but i will probably renew the HGV licence one more time as 2020 will be 50years since I passed my Class1. Regards Kev.

I think the OP is saying that as we are now all deemed by government to be able to stay fit enough to work longer then the change from 5 yearly checks to 1 yearly should be changed to a higher age to reflect this. It’s logical to be fair and what you are saying about the cost really supports his argument. Well done though, 50 years ? 1970 ? That was not long after HGV driving tests came in ?