Bewick:
John West:
Roymondo:
Buzzer:
Now I am getting older 70 later this year I am not sure how much longer I can pass an annual medical for my LGV licence, if I give it up will I still be able to drive a 7.5 ton truck on my ordinary car license or have the rules changed in that respect, on my current card license it does say that I am entitled until 2021 to drive class C1E which is up to 12000kgs train weight (7.5ton + trailer) but after this date I think is when I have to re apply for all classes of driving license including my car classification does any one know, cheers Buzzer.Your “grandfather rights” to drive 7.5 tonne lorries will indeed expire on your 70th birthday, as will your car (and motorcycle, if you have it) entitlements. Renewing your car entitlement only requires you to confirm you are fit and meet the (car) eyesight requirements, but if you want to renew your 7.5T entitlement, you’ll need a D4 medical (and to meet the higher LGV eyesight standard).
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Wow, you had me panicking there Roymondo. Sad old man that I am, I have a 600 Honda, which I ride occasionally to remind me that I was young once. I passed my motorbike test in 1965. When I changed from the little red book to the piece of paper in a plastic case I noticed that they had missed off my motor bike licence. I didn’t have a bike then, but on principle didn’t want to lose the licence. That was sorted out with a couple of letters. When I was forty, or whatever age it was, and I got a letter telling me I needed a medical to renew my HGV, I was running a parcels franchise. I sat it on my desk for a while then decided I would never drive a lorry again, so let it lapse. I also realised at 70 last year that I was losing my 7.5 ton licence, but again it didn’t bother me too much (I have a few chums who haven’t realised that they’re no longer entitled to tow their caravans, but that’s another matter).
So when I saw your post, I hurriedly pulled out the licence. I see I have an A and an AM licence until '21, so I guess I’m ok! Phew!
John
That sounds like you had a “close shave” John !! The only advice I would have been able to offer you was that you go back to the promotor of the raffle and ask for your 2 quid back ! Cheers Dennis.
I did take the motorbike, car and HGV test Dennis, I was 3 months short of gaining my artic HGV on Grandfather rights. I remember pausing for a long time at the junction as we left the test depot near Milnthorpe. My instructor, who’s name I can’t remember, had said, 'don’t assume you’ll turn right, he will be ‘upset’ if you do! So after a couple of throat clearances, I said ‘sorry, I was told not to presume where we were going’ I suspect that that may have actually helped me. I passed. The other person on the course, Harold Doling, who had an ironmonger’s shop on Dalton Road in Barrow, and I was a friend of his son, Alan, failed. He had only taken the test to move a mobile shop that occasionally came to town. I was slightly more serious!
I do remember finding the instruction course actually helpful. My memories are of approaching Greenodd and being asked by the ex police tutor, what traffic is coming towards you? Of course you could see around the bay, but I hadn’t noticed. His other great insruction was ’ take your foot off the (expletive) brake’ as we approached a corner ‘the corner will remove your speed’. So thatcourse was well worth taking for a self taught lorry driver!
Some of us didn’t pretend that we had been driving artic when we hadn’t. Not that you would have of course…