Driving licence....please check

[coco69]

Buying my son a car today and garage checking my details only to discover the 10 year period ran out in september....if pulled by police you get a £1000 fine
Just applied for new one.....so just check yours...you never know

 

[Drago]

No you won't.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

I've still got a paper licence

 

[coco69]

No you won't.

They must of been wrong then

 

[Drago]

The DVLA send you to court, not the police. Even if you fail to revalidate it the licence itself is still current, so you commit no moving traffic offence, so the police don't care.

It's the DVLA who are the enforcement authority, and seeing as they knew the very minute you licence expired and still didn't try to punish you...

 

[coco69]

Like i say they must be wrong......reminder there anyway

 

[vernon]

Buying my son a car today and garage checking my details only to discover the 10 year period ran out in september....if pulled by police you get a £1000 fine
Just applied for new one.....so just check yours...you never know

It's cheaper to drive without a license and Insurance

Jordan Rymill, North Street, Rawmarsh, aged 27, driving without a valid licence or insurance, £110 fine, £85 costs.

Keith Lowcock, Harris Road, Armthorpe, Doncaster, aged 40, driving without a licence or insurance, no plea indicated found guilty, six months’ driving ban, £600 fine, £85 costs;

Daniel Christopher Clark, aged 27, of Bolton Road, Bolton; driving without a licence, £140 fine, £255 costs; driving without insurance, no separate penalty.

Alistair Lawson, aged 20, of Ravenscliffe Avenue, Ravenscliffe; driving without insurance, £440 fine, £279 costs, licence endorsed; driving without a licence, no separate penalty.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Buying my son a car today and garage checking my details only to discover the 10 year period ran out in september....if pulled by police you get a £1000 fine
Just applied for new one.....so just check yours...you never know

What ten year period is this?

 

[vickster]

What ten year period is this?

10 year validity of photo card licence presumably

 

[Col5632]

You basically need to change the photo every 10 years cause you change loads lol

 

[Smokin Joe]

I got a reminder when mine expired.

 

[Scoosh]

I only have a paper licence and had a scary thought the other day that it might be (over)due for renewal .

Not to worry, it's ok till 2020 or something equally far away ...

 

[fossyant]

No photo on mine, I look just as good as I would have done 28 years ago NOT !

 

[Diggs]

I've still got a paper licence

Yep me too, I think I'm covered til the tail end of the 2030s

 

[RichardB]

[QUOTE 4078093, member: 45"]And when you get your new card, check your categories. There have been some stories of categories being removed that shouldn't have been.[/QUOTE]
+1 to this. I don't know if it still happening, but when the photocard licence was introduced there were many cases of motorcyclists losing their category A from their licences. To get it reinstated, you need proof that you have passed the appropriate test, but if you passed it in the 70s (like I did) they will have no record of it, and unless you have kept your pink pass slip for 40+ years, neither will you. ALWAYS take a photocopy of all the relevant info before sending your licence away.