Old DR10 drink drive ban, now insisting on medical?

newtotrading

I'm posting here because Ive read a lot of helpful posts, but please dont lecture me on the mistake I made in the past, I know I done wrong.
I was banned from driving for 15 months for a positive breath test, I blew 83mg. This was in 2008. I just recieved a letter from HM Courts saying as I was a high risk offender (over 2 1/2 times the limit) I have to pay for a medical @ £96+vat to prove I'm no longer a danger.

The legal limit is 35, so my 83mg is below 2 1/2 times the limit which automatically means you are a high risk offender. Do i have to do the medical, or can i write back informing them they made a mistake?
Thanks in advance

paddedjohn

if you were banned in 2008 for 15 month then why are they asking for this 12-18 months after you got your licence back?

KierNet

paddedjohn wrote: »

if you were banned in 2008 for 15 month then why are they asking for this 12-18 months after you got your licence back?

Might have only just reapplied for their license.

Give them a ring and see what they say, might be another reason for putting you at high risk.

Linus2864

Did you take a blood or urine test?

Although your breath alcohol content may have been lower than 2.5 times the limit, it is possible that your blood or urine levels could have been more than 2.5 times above their limits. The High Risk Offender (HRO) scheme uses blood and urine alcohol content in addition to breath content.

Also, you can be classified as a HRO if you fail to supply a blood or urine test, or if you have more than one drink drive disqualification, so it could be one of these?

Useful info here: http://www.drinkdriving.org/drink_driving_information_DVLA_medical.php

Hope this helps

Road_Hog

paddedjohn wrote: »

if you were banned in 2008 for 15 month then why are they asking for this 12-18 months after you got your licence back?

It's all about the money. The medicals will be run by ACPO (Chief Constables) and is a private company, nothing to do with the police or the government. Same as the speed awareness courses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145581/Body-charge-UK-policing-policy-18m-year-brand-charging-public-70-60p-criminal-records-check.html

Notmyrealname

newtotrading wrote: »

I'm posting here because Ive read a lot of helpful posts, but please dont lecture me on the mistake I made in the past, I know I done wrong.
I was banned from driving for 15 months for a positive breath test, I blew 83mg. This was in 2008. I just recieved a letter from HM Courts saying as I was a high risk offender (over 2 1/2 times the limit) I have to pay for a medical @ £96+vat to prove I'm no longer a danger.

The legal limit is 35, so my 83mg is below 2 1/2 times the limit which automatically means you are a high risk offender. Do i have to do the medical, or can i write back informing them they made a mistake?
Thanks in advance

You have to have the medical. There is no way around this. No medical, no licence. The price of the medical is not fixed - it depends entirely what your GP charges and the prices can vary from £50 to over £150.

Notmyrealname

Road_Hog wrote: »

It's all about the money. The medicals will be run by ACPO (Chief Constables) and is a private company, nothing to do with the police or the government.

The medical will actually be done by your GP, the same as HGV medicals are, but is a chargeable service.

Trebor16

Road_Hog wrote: »

It's all about the money. The medicals will be run by ACPO (Chief Constables) and is a private company, nothing to do with the police or the government. Same as the speed awareness courses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1145581/Body-charge-UK-policing-policy-18m-year-brand-charging-public-70-60p-criminal-records-check.html

ACPO running the medicals? I think you will find it is DVLA who are asking for the medical to be taken, not ACPO.

Maybe the OP could help us with when he/she applied to get their licence back given that the ban would have expired some time ago.

One other thing. If the reading on the evidential breath machine was 83mg then no blood or urine sample would have been taken by police at the time.

Road_Hog

Notmyrealname wrote: »

The medical will actually be done by your GP, the same as HGV medicals are, but is a chargeable service.

Of course it will be done by a GP or your GP (Chief Constables don't do medicals). But the charges and profit will go to ACPO, with a fee to your GP.

How often does your GP charge you almost £120 (£96 + VAT) for a medical (checking you over)?

Notmyrealname

Road_Hog wrote: »

Of course it will be done by a GP or your GP (Chief Constables don't do medicals). But the charges and profit will go to ACPO, with a fee to your GP.

Once again, the profit does not go to the ACPO. The GP keeps the whole fee because it is a private medical consultation and that is the GPs charge for non-NHS treatments etc.

How often does your GP charge you almost £120 (£96 + VAT) for a medical (checking you over)?

Every HGV medical I have. The whole of the fee goes entirely to the GP. If I shop around in my area the prices range from about £80 to over £150.

It may be a strange concept to you but every single one of the 1,000,0000+ HGV drivers in this country along with coach drivers have paid that much or thereabouts to their GP for the medical to support their application, and again when they are required to have a medical at 45, 50, 55, 60 and 65 years old and every year thereafter in order to retain their HGV/PSV.

Don't believe me? Register on the forums at Trucknetuk.com and ask there. Every single HGV driver on that forum has paid a similar price for a HGV medical which will be the same as the one you're having.

MattLFC

Yep, GP's take all the financial remuneration for the medicals. A GP I am good friends with privately, got so annoyed by people wanting letters for really trivial things and generally wasting GP's time, which is already stretched beyond belief, he started charging (officially) £50 minimum charge for any letter required (genuine requirements are met without charge at his digression, but this isn't advertised to people of course). The amount of peasants asking for notes to cover them for disability passes for days out to the likes of Alton Towers and the like who have trivial reasoning for claiming the passes, according to him, nosedived practically overnight - the genuine people get them at no charge.