Bored & Annoyed

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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So, well, It’s May.

I got my CE end of March and mid April the DVLA admitted they had fixed the ‘mistake’ and my licence was sent to the department to have the additional categories added. It’s still in the queue.

Still on the dole, at home, bored and running out of money. I have applied to a few companies as well as agencies but the normal response is that without my licence in paper form for them to inspect I won’t be offered any work as they’re not that desperate for drivers. This is usually after them telling me they’re desperate for Class 1 & 2 drivers.

So. Yeah. All the paperwork and letters covering me. Pointless in filling out the little booklet for the dole for ‘what have you done today to look for work’

RING DVLA. Chase Licence. Complain to DVLA. Chase Licence.

On the positive side I am working my way through watching the entirety of the collections of Star Gate, Star Trek and a bunch of other SciFi series released to DVDs…

But I’m still bored.

The highlight of last week was being pulled over by the Police after leaving a pub. The [zb] didn’t even breathalyse me!!! The outrage! They just naturally assumed I was a responsible adult as the only two ID cards I could produce was a CPC card or DIGI card.

[zb]

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Saratoga:
On the positive side I am working my way through watching the entirety of the collections of Star Gate, Star Trek and a bunch of other SciFi series released to DVDs…

But I’m still bored.

I’m not surprised. I’d rather set up a chair in the hallway and watch the letter box waiting for my licence to fall through it than watch that lot.

You could pretend you’ve already got your licence and go out and murder a prostitute. They don’t require any proof of your entitlement and it’s good experience for when your licence does finally arrive.

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No SCF, criminal or abusive attitudes and behaviour is not within my remit, I’m sorry. Wrong mould for me.

But if you’d like to pop around and share the housework with me you could tell me of your adventures of trucking. I take it you’ve been released from pre-mod now then? :wink:

Even when the licence turns up I guess I’ll be on Class 2 for a while but even so. It’ll be work to help pay the bills :smiley:

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It will come back the same day as mine. Some time next week is their best estimate Grrrr.

And don’t just settle for Class 2 work.

If the ones who say you could work here if we could see your license are genuine, go for it. You know you want to :wink:

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The DVLA have been telling me ‘Within 7 days’ since the 12th of April on both their 0300 and through their ‘vocational unit’ with an 01792 number, which is a direct dial number to Swansea, for those that didn’t know that code.

It is [zb] annoying. But then again, I’m only half way through ST:TNG Season 6 at the moment… :unamused: :open_mouth: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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You still have DS9 and Voyager to watch then :wink:.

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dar1976:
You still have DS9 and Voyager to watch then :wink:.

Yes, plus everything else that is sitting in my HP Microservers’ 4TB of media accumulated over the years. I am also stripping older non functioning computers and MicroATX, Mini and Micro ITX computers to their base parts and binning the rest, well, the seriously broken bits anyway…

I’ve also found an old 17" CRT under a pile of clothes I thought were just a large pile of clothes :slight_smile: So yeah, in time, life will go on. But at least you’ve got a job by the sounds of it. I have boredom and late night computering… :astonished:

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When couldn’t find my licence and started a new job they just rang the dvla and did a licence check over the phone

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I used their contact form on their website when I was chasing mine. I got a reply the next day saying that it had been dispatched. When it turned up, the issue date was the very date that they had sent their reply - I wonder if by using the email facility it meant that they were then under some sort of target time to respond (as I got a case number), and this made them push it through a bit quicker?

Course, it might have just been a coincidence!

Gary

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Call them & be a bit “economical” with some things

You are just a beginner try 6 years on the sick only being allowed to do permitted work ( upto 16 hours per week which I had to fight for )

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I have told them lots including that I am unable to work without the licence and at first they said it would be a priority but later they said they couldn’t change the priority. I have tried the ‘telephone’ tactic with the agencies and they have replied that they must see the paper copy, and so here I am.

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every time I Take my paper one in to an agency they ring the dvla anyway… maybe they are just over subscribed?

iain

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So, I’ve now got B, BE, C, CE, C1E, D, DE, D1, D1E

So before I couldn’t drive PSV/PCVs and trailers and now I don’t have the actual category for C1, even though the C would cover that…

So have I improved, been degraded, or just moved sideways?

I still think complaints are in order but not just yet. Right now I shall get work first, that is the priority! I have already sorted out refresher training on a regular artic in a local training company that has a regular sized artic; DAF 95XF with a twin axle box trailer. Just a tad bigger than the W&D I did my CE with :wink:

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Saratoga:
So, I’ve now got B, BE, C, CE, C1E, D, DE, D1, D1E

So before I couldn’t drive PSV/PCVs and trailers and now I don’t have the actual category for C1, even though the C would cover that…

So have I improved, been degraded, or just moved sideways?

See my comments here.

This sounds right if you had a pre-1997 car licence, C and D entitlement before taking your CEÂ test.

CE upgrades your DÂ to DE. D allows you to tow a trailer up to 750kg MAM behind a PCV, DE removes the trailer MAMÂ restriction.

If you took CE on a manual transmission vehicle, CE will remove any 78 (automatic only) restrictions from all your B, C and D family categories. Indeed, manual C removes 78 restrictions from all B, C and D categories other than the +E versions, so if you had automatic only D it most likely had the restriction removed when you took your C test. Bus companies tend to put drivers in for their DÂ test on an automatic bus these days, as manual buses are extinct on stage fare work and many coaches are now automatic. Probably the most common manual PCVÂ these days is a manual minibus on a van chassis.

C1E, D1 and D1EÂ are presumably shown with the restriction codes relevant to a pre-1997 car test (i.e. C1E 107, D1 101 and D1E 101 119) and ‘until 70’ validity. The C1 from your pre-1997 car test is likely hiding because it has no restriction codes and you hold full C anyway. If you hold a full category you automatically have entitlement to all subcategories with the same restriction codes, so you can drive C1E totalling more than 8.25t MAMÂ and drive minibuses for hire and reward (assuming you have a Driver Qualification Card showing PCVÂ DCPC or you held D before September 2008 and therefore have grandfather rights to PCVÂ initial DCPC until September 2013).

Saratoga:
I still think complaints are in order but not just yet.

What do you think there is to complain about? It looks right to me.

Saratoga:
Right now I shall get work first, that is the priority! I have already sorted out refresher training on a regular artic in a local training company that has a regular sized artic; DAF 95XF with a twin axle box trailer. Just a tad bigger than the W&D I did my CE with :wink:

That sounds like a good plan - get CE on a wagon and drag, then take some conversion training on an artic. It’s certainly Peter Smythe’s suggested route and is becoming increasingly popular now that a W&DÂ pass gives unrestricted CE. This way, the training providers can use the same vehicle for C and CE.

All the best with the job hunt.

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Thanks for your comprehensive post :wink:

They missed the C1 off my licence. I passed in 1994 :unamused: :sunglasses:

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Saratoga:
They missed the C1 off my licence. I passed in 1994 :unamused: :sunglasses:

As I said, I think the C1 from your car test is hiding rather than missing. It will be subject to the same restriction codes as your C (if any), so there’s really no point in showing it other than to denote that you have held C1 entitlement longer than you have held C. The start date of your C1 entitlement is obvious from the start date showing against your C1E (up to 8.25t).

I wouldn’t query the licence you have - it sounds as if it accurately represents the entitlements you have stemming from the four driving tests you have taken (B, C, CE and D) and sending it back will just leave you without a licence for several weeks.

I think DVLA’s system may have limits on how many categories it can show on the back of a current photocard licence. When we move to the new design in January 2013 (as seen in my other reply to you), maybe DVLA will stop hiding subcategories.

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I passed my test in 93 car ~I dont have my D1 or C1 on my licence, but I have C+E & D+E so I can drive the C1, i really do not see what you have to moan about now.

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Oh just getting mixed up and confused… :astonished: