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Driving licenses.
brodiesprime
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in Motoring
I believe mine is well out of date? It's the old green fold up paper one?
I was told by my Son that this is well out of date, I am also finable if I ever need to produce it should I be most unfortunate enough to be stopped.
I was told by my Son that this is well out of date, I am also finable if I ever need to produce it should I be most unfortunate enough to be stopped.
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It is still valid until you are 70 years of age.
Unless you have changed your address since it was issued, then you need to update it and then you will be issued with a photocard licence.0 -
It has a valid until date, that as LeeUK says, will be your 70th birthday.
I still have mine, and I have no intention of getting one of these new fangled ones either. The photocard part has to be renewed every few years, and costs an arm & a leg.
However, if you type your number into that DVLA site where you can check your entitlements and endorsements online, it won't be recognised. I don't think we exist any more, so I'm even less likely to send it away in case they "lose" my motorcycle entitlement.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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It has a valid until date, that as LeeUK says, will be your 70th birthday.
I still have mine, and I have no intention of getting one of these new fangled ones either. The photocard part has to be renewed every few years, and costs an arm & a leg.
Every ten years, and it's £20.
Arms and legs must be cheap where you live.:)0 -
Not even that much... It's £14.Every ten years, and it's £20.
https://www.gov.uk/renew-driving-licence
facade - if you're worried about entitlements being lost, then either "lose" your licence and apply for a replacement, then "find" it, or take a photocopy/scan before you send it.
The paper counterpart of photocard licences is being withdrawn from June this year, but the completely-paper pre-photocard licences will remain valid until 2033. By that stage, it will be 35 years since the last one was issued... and, together with all those who've move in that time, everybody over 70 will have renewed their licence, so will be on a photocard anyway.0 -
Have you checked recently?. I've only got a pink paper licence from 1989 and mines online.
However, if you type your number into that DVLA site where you can check your entitlements and endorsements online, it won't be recognised. I don't think we exist any more, so I'm even less likely to send it away in case they "lose" my motorcycle entitlement.
https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence0 -
Norman_Castle wrote: »Have you checked recently?. I've only got a pink paper licence from 1989 and mines online.
https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence
Nope, I don't exist as of 2 minutes ago.
I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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You say yours is a green paper licence? IIRC, they predated the pink ones, which preceded the photocards. Perhaps there was a change in the back-end storage related to that change.0
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It is a proper green one, from 1984.
I imagine that there is an old shoebox somewhere in the cellars at DVLA with the handwritten counterfoil in, that they haven't got around to typing up.
As you suggest, the last thing I'm going to do is post the only record of my full car & 'bike licence to them.I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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It is a proper green one, from 1984.
So 31 years since DVLA last did anything with your driver record.
"proper"? It's a format that ceased to be used decades ago. The "proper" licence for the last seventeen years is the one you refuse to have.I imagine that there is an old shoebox somewhere in the cellars at DVLA with the handwritten counterfoil in, that they haven't got around to typing up.
And, indeed, why should they? For all they know, you no longer drive.As you suggest, the last thing I'm going to do is post the only record of my full car & 'bike licence to them.
'course, if you'd been less paranoid about your driving record, it'd have been fully computerised and verifiable for over half of that time, and the "only record" would be far better protected than relying on a bit of tatty paper.0 -
Paranaoia has nothing to do with it.
Why should I pay, and keep on paying through the nose every few years, to replace something that isn't broken?
This is a moneysaving forum after all
I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....
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