Advice please, AGTLAW, LoonR1, BV, Police officers.

Advice please, AGTLAW, LoonR1, BV, Police officers.

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Nigel Worc's

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8,121 posts

189 months

Saturday 18th October 2014
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Clipper22 said:
Sorry Nigel, let me explain properly.

I stop you, you produce an expired substantive licence, usually cut and dried. However, this time, you have a letter from DVLA (preferred), or something else that casts doubt on your licence status (doctors letter, etc).

So, I try to contact my DVLA liaison officer - however, there is no-one available.

So, I report you for driving otherwise in accordance and send you on your way. I don't seize the car, I don't offer a FPN.
I then chase DVLA through our liaison officer - they say either you are entitled to drive (no further action) or that you aren't entitled to drive (I have reported you already, so submit a file).
Thank you.

I have just e-mailed them, asking for something in writing that I could show you, I will have one from my doctor, and one from my insurance.

Trouble is, they've had my application since August, if the e-mail gets dealt with on the same time scale as my application, I'm not going to get anything.

IanA2

2,763 posts

163 months

Saturday 18th October 2014
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Had a look at this?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver...

They must have (I can't find them) published service standards indicating turnaround times etc and I would have though your experience does not meet them.

Nigel Worc's

Original Poster:

8,121 posts

189 months

Saturday 18th October 2014
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IanA2 said:
Had a look at this?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/driver...

They must have (I can't find them) published service standards indicating turnaround times etc and I would have though your experience does not meet them.
Thank you.

It isn't a good feeling preparing to drive without an in date licence, all I can do is try to get enough paperwork in place to stop the Police seizing my van if I am noticed, I'm advised what I'm doing is lawful, it is afterall DVLA that are advising me to do it, and most notably, my insurance are happy to continue to cover me.

I'm not sure complaining about them is going to help, I don't think for a moment they are doing this deliberately, with all the cutbacks and closure of the local offices, their workload must have increased.

If it was only for a few days I'd just take a few days off, but they've no idea when my application will be looked at, so it is a bit open ended, and obviously I need to work.

Even my MP is trying to help me, he e-mailed me back last night to ask me for my licence number, but if pressure from him makes them do mine, some other poor sod loses out, and the only way they could do mine in time now would be to sign me off without checking me, and apparently they did that 3 years ago, and shouldn't do it twice in a row, according to them.

I'm not the worst case of this I've come across, my mechanic has a customer who turned 70 in April of this year, it is now mid October, and he's still waiting.