Manual or automatic

[Drawweight]

A question mostly for the police officers on here.

If you stop a car for an any reason are you going to be looking for if they have a licence for the type of car they are driving.

I.e if they are driving a manual would it immediately jump out at you if they have an automatic only licence? With the numbers growing of automatic only licences this must come up at some point.

[vonhosen]

Was always pretty standard during stops to look at documentation to see if this person, is allowed to drive this vehicle, at this time, at this location, in these circumstances.

[98elise]

I would have thought if they could drive a manual car, they would get a manual licence?

[nismocat]

You may also have issues with getting insurance and/or claiming in the event of an incident.

[Pica-Pica]

A driving licence is a pretty quick read for a copper. It would be 78 in column 12.
Similarly, needing corrected eyesight is 01 in column 12
https://www.gov.uk/driving-licence-codes

[autumnsum]

I know someone who took an automatic test but got a full license. Can't be the only one to have got lucky like that. I suspect it happened a lot back in the day when it was rare. Probably not so much now when most cars sold are auto.

[Actual]

autumnsum said:

I know someone who took an automatic test but got a full license. Can't be the only one to have got lucky like that. I suspect it happened a lot back in the day when it was rare. Probably not so much now when most cars sold are auto.

I know someone who took a motorcycle test and but got a "A" pass for a car. He kept the car licence.

[LosingGrip]

Drawweight said:

A question mostly for the police officers on here.

If you stop a car for an any reason are you going to be looking for if they have a licence for the type of car they are driving.

I.e if they are driving a manual would it immediately jump out at you if they have an automatic only licence? With the numbers growing of automatic only licences this must come up at some point.

When you do a check it will flash up 'auto car only' or similar.

[nismocat]

Column 12 number 78 is auto only, for manual no code is listed.