If you pass C+E, do you have to send off the plastic driving licence to DVLA or is it just the pass form? Cant remember what I did after class 2 or if it different for class 1 addon.
It just if I don’t have plastic bit, I can only do agency for companies i’ve worked for previously (on class 2 work) as new ones always want to see licence.
I assume you can drive class 2 without the card if it at DVLA from a vosa point of view?
If you pass the examiner will take your licence off you there and then. DVLA will issue a new one with your new category on it.
trevHCS:
If you pass C+E, do you have to send off the plastic driving licence to DVLA or is it just the pass form? Cant remember what I did after class 2 or if it different for class 1 addon.It just if I don’t have plastic bit, I can only do agency for companies i’ve worked for previously (on class 2 work) as new ones always want to see licence.
I assume you can drive class 2 without the card if it at DVLA from a vosa point of view?
Answer above correct
Just because a licence is sent off does not change your categories
You can drive CE for a job a few minutes after passing the test by using the pass cert if employers accept that - most do not - they want to see it on a licence
My examiner asked if I wanted him to send the card away or do it myself.
All wrong!
What you’re meant to do is slice it into long thin strips, mince through a grinder, emulsify with 5th wheel grease, and bake in the oven in the shape of an OXO cube. Then you send it back! 
Evil8Beezle:
All wrong!What you’re meant to do is slice it into long thin strips, mince through a grinder, emulsify with 5th wheel grease, and bake in the oven in the shape of an OXO cube. Then you send it back!
This is the correct answer. Do this!
Photocopy it before the test day,It takes 3 weeks for the dvla to update it in any case .
Cov:
Photocopy it before the test day,It takes 3 weeks for the dvla to update it in any case .
Both of mine came back within a week. I had mine taken from me by the examiner when I passed.
Had a feeling i’d sent it back with the form last time, but I assume they destroy the original and issue a new bit of plastic. Hopefully DVLA will be quick in sending it back as cant really afford two weeks without agency work (my LIDL bag for life died too).
As for E8B idea - thats easy, theres an Oxo factory in Worksop a few miles up the road so sure they’ll do it for me. Wonder if you get extra categories for authentically packaging, in oxo cube foil, the resulting licence. 
Thanks for the info.
Radar19:
Cov:
Photocopy it before the test day,It takes 3 weeks for the dvla to update it in any case .Both of mine came back within a week. I had mine taken from me by the examiner when I passed.
It’s usually more than a week,You were lucky then.Mine never updated online until day 20 .Next day it arrived 