Old style paper driving licence

Nessun_Dorma

johndough wrote: »

Hi

You can view your entitlements here...
https://www.viewdrivingrecord.service.gov.uk/driving-record/licence-number

You need to change your licence if a Police officer (or similar) finds it illegible, or get them new glasses, but actually they can view it online.

What may have have changed is the classes or categories, like having a moped licence granted automatically in the old days, that may have been revoked. Originally I had A,E - now as below.
Description

You can drive vehicles up to 3,500kg Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) carrying no more than 8 passengers and driver with trailer up to 750kg; trailer over 750kg if combined vehicle and trailer weight isn’t more than 3,500kg MAM; Vehicles between 3,500kg and 7,500kg carrying no more than 8 passengers and a driver with trailer up to 750kg; Vehicles between 3,500kg and 7,500kg carrying no more than 8 passengers and a driver with trailer over 750kg if combined vehicle and trailer weight isn’t more than 8,250; Vehicles with up to 16 passenger seats and a driver with trailer up to 750kg;

Automatic versions of the vehicles quoted above;

You can also drive vehicles in groups C, E, F, K, L and N below:

Any motor trike less than 410kg (500kg laden); Moped up to 50cc (max speed 50km/h); Agricultural tractor; Mowing machine or pedestrian-controlled vehicle; Electrically-propelled vehicle; Vehicles (exempt from duty) under section 7 (1) of the vehicle (excise) Act 1971

All of that is dependent on when you passed your driving test. I passed mine some decades ago and have "grandfathered" rights.

Nessun_Dorma

bod1467 wrote: »

I applied for a photocard licence a couple of years ago (thinking like the OP that it was becoming a requirement), having "lost" my paper licence. Fortunately the photocard version had all the correct entitlements on it ... if it hadn't I would have "found" my paper version as proof of entitlement

(There was talk back then of people getting photocard licences and returning their paper licences [so the photocard was free/cheap] but losing entitlements like motorcycle ... unless they had proof of entitlement [such as their pass certificate] then they lost the entitlement altogether. Whether this was real or an urban myth I'm not sure, but I took the least-risk approach)

No, it was actually happening. Watchdog did a whole running feature about it, some years ago

Nessun_Dorma

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

If you do apply for a photo one now, you will have a (physically) clean licence and get rid of those nasty typed points on your paper licence. I know it makes no odds but, well, you sorta put the past behind you .

Typed? Wow, your posh Most of mine were hand written. :rotfl:

BigBopper

Nessun_Dorma wrote: »

To have points added?

Do they still add them?

Nessun_Dorma

BigBopper wrote: »

Do they still add them?

To paper licences they do.

Car_54

BigBopper wrote: »

Do they still add them?

AFAIK you have to send your licence to the court or the ticket office, not the DVLA.

They no longer endorse the points on the physical licence, but they need to see it to confirm the criminal's identity.

BigBopper

Car_54 wrote: »

AFAIK you have to send your licence to the court or the ticket office, not the DVLA.

They no longer endorse the points on the physical licence, but they need to see it to confirm the criminal's identity.

Since when have the courts been concerned with confirming identity?

Car_54

BigBopper wrote: »

Since when have the courts been concerned with confirming identity?

Forever. The first thing an accused person is asked is to confirm his name.

BigBopper

Car_54 wrote: »

Forever. The first thing an accused person is asked is to confirm his name.

Are you John Smith?
Yes

Then the move on. It hardly confirms anything. They put points on someone's licence on another's say so. Unless you're going to claim that's never happened.

molerat

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

If you do apply for a photo one now, you will have a (physically) clean licence and get rid of those nasty typed points on your paper licence. I know it makes no odds but, well, you sorta put the past behind you .

TYPED !! mine are hand written, 15/9/90