My photo card expired on the 19th June, my vocational licence privileges have now expired too
The DVLA have had my licence renewals during this period but I still haven’t got it back
I phoned up to find out if they received it and they gave me an ack and said there is an awful big backlog assesing medical reports, not sure when it will be processed!!!
I get asked to see my licence about 4-5 times a month as I go into various places to pick up waggons. So I asked for a covering letter saying I’m entitled to drive and it arrived yesterday.
A ring to agencies (i’m with 4) and they are happy but are now reporting feedback from sites saying that after explaining the transport managers are saying. No licence, no drive, tuff!. So effectively from the moment I’m asked for my licence, I’m unemployed again!!.
jcfd55:
My photo card expired on the 19th June, my vocational licence privileges have now expired too
The DVLA have had my licence renewals during this period but I still haven’t got it back
I phoned up to find out if they received it and they gave me an ack and said there is an awful big backlog assesing medical reports, not sure when it will be processed!!!
I get asked to see my licence about 4-5 times a month as I go into various places to pick up waggons. So I asked for a covering letter saying I’m entitled to drive and it arrived yesterday.
A ring to agencies (i’m with 4) and they are happy but are now reporting feedback from sites saying that after explaining the transport managers are saying. No licence, no drive, tuff!. So effectively from the moment I’m asked for my licence, I’m unemployed again!!.
Getting ready to make an awful big fuss!!!
Jim
Its ■■■■■■■■ but rules is rules with some companies.
I drove for three months on a letter from DVLA while investigations were going on with my eyesight, it is all sorted now and my licence was returned with a proviso that I wear glasses at all times. I have thought about fighting that, as my uncorrected vision is within the limits for a car or motorcycle, yet I must wear glasses for all classes according to the notes. The code on my licence is 01 which denotes eyesight correction
i had a covering letter, think it was too do with medicalpanel or similar looking at diabetis tests, company accepted it but they wernt happy, getting asked most days about it if i remember correctly,but i did carry on driving.
I had a similar thing when getting a new license a couple of years back, my local driver hire office wouldn’t give me anything until I could guarantee I had my license with me when I went to all customers, a letter from the DVLA was no good apparently.
I’ve had a letter from DVLA that was accepted by my company (they did have previous copies) Car hire company in Canada and Canadian and US police/border officers.
Seems to me that the fact that you are agency gives the TM’s the chance to get picky, at least until you are the only option when all previous problems suddenly disappear.
One of my agencies have asked me to get one of these letters while the dvla add c+e to my license (and remove points) so they can send me on class 2 jobs (they wont send me for class 1 work until they’ve seen my license). Wouldn’t a pass certificate be just as good!?
jcfd55:
My photo card expired on the 19th June, my vocational licence privileges have now expired too
The DVLA have had my licence renewals during this period but I still haven’t got it back
I phoned up to find out if they received it and they gave me an ack and said there is an awful big backlog assesing medical reports, not sure when it will be processed!!!
I get asked to see my licence about 4-5 times a month as I go into various places to pick up waggons. So I asked for a covering letter saying I’m entitled to drive and it arrived yesterday.
A ring to agencies (i’m with 4) and they are happy but are now reporting feedback from sites saying that after explaining the transport managers are saying. No licence, no drive, tuff!. So effectively from the moment I’m asked for my licence, I’m unemployed again!!.
Getting ready to make an awful big fuss!!!
Jim
No point making a fuss, they have a valid point although I do sympathise with you as I’d be ■■■■■■ off about it too. Simple fact of the matter is that those letters from DVLA can be knocked up in Word in approx 2 mins after a bit of cut and paste work with the DVLA header and logo which can easily found from no end of websites. If a TM agreed to let you drive and then something major happened and it turned out your DVLA bit of paper was in fact fake, he’d be firmly in the firing line for letting you drive without doing proper checks. Put yourself in their shoes…
Our Transport Manager is a dimwit and ive renamed him Baldrick Hes always having these cunning plans which never work out,he doesnt know his arris from his elbow.Hes so dumb he thinks travelling times are a mile for every minute
BIGRIG:
Our Transport Manager is a dimwit and ive renamed him Baldrick Hes always having these cunning plans which never work out,he doesnt know his arris from his elbow.Hes so dumb he thinks travelling times are a mile for every minute
He might be onto something there considering most trucks can be found doing 56mph …
Rob K:
No point making a fuss, they have a valid point although I do sympathise with you as I’d be ■■■■■■ off about it too. Simple fact of the matter is that those letters from DVLA can be knocked up in Word in approx 2 mins after a bit of cut and paste work with the DVLA header and logo which can easily found from no end of websites. If a TM agreed to let you drive and then something major happened and it turned out your DVLA bit of paper was in fact fake, he’d be firmly in the firing line for letting you drive without doing proper checks. Put yourself in their shoes…
at last someone thinking instead of just bleating, in this world of corporate responsibility what would YOU do if you were the TM ?
Where is that double standard coming from now??
If a truck doesn’t display the tax-disc or O license disc you all throw the dummy out the pram, rip the arms of your teddybear, and plainly refuse to drive.
Have a moan about on Trucknet how this “Big Bad Company” would let you drive in such a circumstances etc. etc.
Because it your license!!
That is the same reason why a TM wouldn’t let you drive, especcialy if he doesn’t know you at all.
That piece of paper is not a driver license, end of.
and in the end it is HIS OPERATOR LICENSE.
Kind of says it all Transports managers are a bit dim!!! The DVLA helpfully put a telephone number on the letter plus my entitlement so that the validity can be checked (its a very public number and common pratice for car hire). Bit beyond the capabilities of most TM’s I fear (using the phone and speaking intelligently that is!!! ) Not exactly a risk to the TM is it? More a risk to a driver on the fiddle I would have thought!
Were talking about a traceable covering letter from the DVLA here, As for the O licence comment its a legal requirement you display it relative to each vechicle. Now you would want the driver to cover the TM’s arse…wouldn’t you? Or would that be bleating?
As it goes, I met another driver in the same position as me. He wrote that his licence was lost at renewal so didn’t send his two bits off. Hes continued to show his old licence to TM’s even tho it was 2 months out of date. Never had a problem, no-one even noticed (even watched him do it)… says it all really
jcfd55:
As for the O licence comment its a legal requirement you display it relative to each vechicle. Now you would want the driver to cover the TM’s arse…wouldn’t you? Or would that be bleating?
Jim
Are you certain about that Jim? I think you may find that in Neil’s growing book of driver stories.
Christmas is coming, the boss is getting fat, he has hired a dozen new trucks in, well fancy that!
darkseeker:
One of my agencies have asked me to get one of these letters while the dvla add c+e to my license (and remove points) so they can send me on class 2 jobs (they wont send me for class 1 work until they’ve seen my license). Wouldn’t a pass certificate be just as good!?
You’d think so seeing that to get a a pass cert you MUST have presented a valid license to the examiner. I had one company refuse to do a class 2 assessment because I only had the C+E pass cert (despite the fact they had a recent photocopy of my license and were happy to let me work driving a class 2 Yeah, I know completely bizarre). Another company were happy to let me jump in one of their artics.
Wheel Nut:
Are you certain about that Jim? I think you may find that in Neil’s growing book of driver stories.
I remeber someone saying that it no longer needs it to be displayed, but I couldn’t be certain as I was writing. Mind niether could the original poster (obviously)
jcfd55:
Kind of says it all Transports managers are a bit dim!!! The DVLA helpfully put a telephone number on the letter plus my entitlement so that the validity can be checked (its a very public number and common pratice for car hire). Bit beyond the capabilities of most TM’s I fear (using the phone and speaking intelligently that is!!! ) Not exactly a risk to the TM is it?
why should he ?
do you think your problem is the only problem he has on his plate ? it is you who wants the work he can probably pick up the phone and get 10 replacements in 30 minutes with up to date licences in their hands.
Wheel Nut:
Are you certain about that Jim? I think you may find that in Neil’s growing book of driver stories.
I remeber someone saying that it no longer needs it to be displayed, but I couldn’t be certain as I was writing. Mind niether could the original poster (obviously)
Jim
Hang on, you made a statement at 4.25 thus.
As for the O licence comment its a legal requirement you display it relative to each vechicle.
Yep that’s what I said sherlock, My God what have you uncovered!? I may have made an error when I replied (too quickly ) initially to the irrelevant O licence commentand admitted it , at least Ive got the balls to admit it!!
As for picking up the phone and getting 10 drivers 30 mins later. Could someone explain to me why I’m registered with three agencies that phone me up with work every day then■■?
The fact is any manager with a qualified candidate in front of him who then ignores “that fact” to phone around for other drivers (ie an unknown variable), is wasting both time and money and delivery schedules
Having taken a choice at 50 yrs old to come into driving from an exec position (14 yrs at an international company as an exec and 10 years as a manager) to protect my health and improve my lifestyle (as in its easy being a monkey behind a wheel as opposed to juggling politics and budgets). I think I know a little bit.
Managers who are unable or not versatile enough to look at or think about the facts in front of them and revert back to a jobsworth opinion are nothing but a waste of space. They are paid to think and manage onfor the bottom line, not to be ignorant robots
Its a licence, its a DVLA letter, Its an agency having checked me out, its a free phone call, Its a delivery thats got to be made!
) Not exactly a risk to the TM is it? More a risk to a driver on the fiddle I would have thought!
Yeah, I know completely bizarre). Another company were happy to let me jump in one of their artics. 