Don't be Left Stranded by the New Car Hire Law

Exemplar

My goodness there is some tripe spoken here....

Just hired a van, did not have my license AT ALL but did have photo ID.

'no problem sir, we use the Govt. website to check, just bring your photo ID and NI number'.

Turned up, they went to: https://www.viewdrivingrecord.service.gov.uk and I entered the information needed (I keep a record of my driving license number with me).

Van hired, no issue.

You lot really need to stop willy waving all the time!

Rover_Driver

The DVLA only advises that the counterpart should be destroyed, not that it needs to be destroyed.


The whole carrentals link in the first post sounds like scare mongering that the car rental system will have all sorts of problems when the new system is introduced - when in fact it will hardly have any detrimental effect, or any effect at all.

AdrianC

The Grauniad have picked it up...
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/apr/25/dvla-driving-licence-paperless-car-hire

Expect a rush of similar threads...

colino

OP, I get it, shut the curtains and put on your colander. Perhaps take a breath and work out the difference in the genuine guidance of, "should" to the shyster sites use of the word, "need" and why they would deliberately go down that route.

Johno100

If he shuts the curtains he wont be able to see the sky falling in.

colino

The piece in the Guardian is almost word for word the press releases from DVLA and BVRLA stitched together.

AdrianC

Oh, Colin! Are you suggesting that original investigative journalism is taking second place to regurgitation of press releases...? How cynical of you!

photome

kwmlondon wrote: »

I've had to show mine every single time I take a hire car in the UK, which I do a couple of times a year. How else can you prove you've got a license? The ID card bit won't show if you're disqualified.

I used an international driving license in the USA, never taken one in europe.

you come across as someone who worries over nothing, why have you had an international license for the USA, I have hired regularly in the USA over last 20 years and never had or needed an international license

Marvel1

kwmlondon wrote: »

I just got this from the page for DVLA Driver Licensing Enquiries
"phone 0913 232 9010

Calls cost £1.53p per call plus £1.53p per minute."

Can you provide a link? I been on the site and don't see that number anywhere.

AdrianC

cjdavies wrote: »

Can you provide a link? I been on the site and don't see that number anywhere.

Post 33, on page 2.

AdrianC wrote: »

That premium number only appears to be on two web pages.
http://www.connectservicesuk.co.uk/dvla-contact/
and
http://www.phone-assist.co.uk/dvla-contact/
...both of which are quite clear that they aren't "affiliated", and that the number is for "our" services and not "the Gov't dept you connect to".

In other words, somebody's being very gullible indeed. Or massively disingenuous.