i’v currently been off work for 2 months now and it is looking like it could be a couple more (unless dvla pull out stops and get me treadmill test) before i return, if i’m correct in thinking i wont be able to carry any previous charts with me as they will be over the 42 day threshhold.
now this is the bit that has me stumped, what happens if i get pulled in the first month back at work and cant produce enough charts at the roadside, will i get a fpn for failing to produce but if i could then they would fine me for having charts too long.
should i get my doctor to write a letter i can carry for the first 6 weeks explaining that i have been off work ex amount of months due to my heart attack so i could show this to the examiner so he knows the reason why i cant produce enough charts?
Doctor or boss could write a letter for you to carry but there is no legal requirement for you to carry such a letter in this country. If stopped you just explain why you have no charts and it is up to them to take it further if they don’t believe you. Don’t carry your old charts with you as that will be an offence.
In any such circumstance they have to prove you are lying, you don’t have to prove you aren’t.
that what i thought but was just thinking if i got a letter from the doc then it would take away any suspicion they might have as to why i have none or little previous charts, thanks coffee
Yeah, a letter from the doc or your boss would make life easier.
Coffeeholic:
Yeah, a letter from the doc or your boss would make life easier.
A letter from the boss may be the cheapest option, I believe some doctors holiday on the takings of such letters 
tachograph:
Coffeeholic:
Yeah, a letter from the doc or your boss would make life easier.A letter from the boss may be the cheapest option, I believe some doctors holiday on the takings of such letters
lol yeah but a doctors letter would carry more weight than a letter from your employer. at end of day all i want to acheive is to be doing the right thing by making life easier for myself and the examiner if it ever came to that point
or just photocopy your sick notes.
Thats all I did after 6 months off work.
thats a reasonable amount of proof for Vosa etc.
i dont think they would accept photocopies as they could be forged so it would have to originals
no reason for them to require positive proof anyway, so photcopies should satisfy their questions.
Letters from doc or boss could be forgeries anyway.
If they still have doubts let them do the leg work!
Must happen all the time anyway, no charts for the two weeks holiday you’ve just had but you don’t need to prove you’ve been on holiday do you?
In fact, thinking about it, i wouldn’t bother carrying any “proof” if they don’t believe you let them do the checks!
edit
at present I am unemployed and will not be able to draw any benefits in another 2 weeks and then there will be no record of my activities after that, so if I go back to work in say, May, then I will have no paperwork at all to show that I haven’t been driving, so they will have to take my word for it.
del949:
no reason for them to require positive proof anyway, so photcopies should satisfy their questions.
Letters from doc or boss could be forgeries anyway.
If they still have doubts let them do the leg work!
Exactly.
scotstrucker:
i dont think they would accept photocopies as they could be forged so it would have to originals
Photocopies of sicknotes are more than you are required to carry anyway, if they don’t like them tough/