Aren’t the DVLA on strike again due to covid safety breaches?
Daf245:
Harry Monk:
Daf245:
Why let you’re entitlement go then?
No sympathy here you get entitlement to drive you hang onto it.Well, because people do sometimes change their occupation if it suits their personal circumstances at the time and if someone does do that it wouldn’t necessarily make sense to spend £500+ on renewing a licence that wasn’t required.
I don’t think he was asking for sympathy.
Well he wants licence now all off a sudden
Yes, the OP needs a licence now and although his HGV test pass is still valid, he needs to renew the entitlement. This obviously entailed having a medical before the licence would be renewed by DVLA and the timeframe for this renewal is what he was asking about.
It wouldn’t make much sense to take a medical (and do the DCPC) if a person was not expecting to drive a truck for a living in the foreseeable future.
I thought,but probably wrongly, That if you did not hold a current licence for more than 10 years, then it was a retest. It was when I was a driving instructor
Daf245:
applecomson:
Redstar46:
Hi, I did my whole licenses through the pandemic ie car to class 1, every time my license was sent to the DVLA I had it back with in the weekCar licence, digi card and CPC card were all done online and arrived in less than a week. This HGV renewal thing is according to many people taking weeks ■■
It’s mental as I’m turning down good money because of DVLA and I want to be working.Why let you’re entitlement go then?
No sympathy here you get entitlement to drive you hang onto it.
You obviously thought there was better out there for you.
That never worked out eh?
Youll never get rich driving a wagon but you’ll always eat
Maybe a prison sentence, sailing around the world, in a coma, working offshore!
So I found an email address today and discovered HGV drivers are on the ‘‘critical workers’’ list and I’m allowed to email and ask about the progress of my licence renewal, here’s their reply.
After reading through it I’m going to start applying for agency work somewhere in a warehouse or something and maybe I’ll like it and say screw the driving when or if they ever get round to returning my licence.
''Critical workers" ? My arse we’re thought of as anything as grand as that.
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