Driving with no licence
Discussion
Dave Hedgehog said:
Mikehartle said:
in that case it should be compulsory to provide license details to insurers to prevent this
they can easily look it up online now A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
It's not easy. Policyholder will have to log in, input licence number national insurance number and postcode, and then generate a share code. Then email this to insurers with your licence number. Then they've got 3 days window to input the share code and last 8 characters of your licence number to check the details.
A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
One of my insurers asks me to do exactly this for all named drivers (its is a bit of a faff), but the other one doesn't.A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
I thought (but am open to be very wrong), that ANPR linked to the licence details of the redg keeper ?
It used to be that if the bike had a sidecar attached then as long as he displayed L plates he could ride it, but that may all of changed these days, I remember when you could ride pillion on a bike ridden by a provisional licence holder if you had a full ticket, but I know that changed as I and a mate were b
ked once the constable had checked that I wasn't telling porkies. (this was back in the 90s, pre forum days, and for me pre photocard licence, so my licence still actually said you could).
It used to be that if the bike had a sidecar attached then as long as he displayed L plates he could ride it, but that may all of changed these days, I remember when you could ride pillion on a bike ridden by a provisional licence holder if you had a full ticket, but I know that changed as I and a mate were b
ked once the constable had checked that I wasn't telling porkies. (this was back in the 90s, pre forum days, and for me pre photocard licence, so my licence still actually said you could).Dromedary66 said:
If he ends up a quadriplegic after an accident on the bike then he can look forward to a lifetime on the bare minimum NHS provided support as his insurance won't be paying out anything.
His insurers wouldn't be paying out for his own injuries even if he had a full licence. TwigtheWonderkid said:
Dromedary66 said:
If he ends up a quadriplegic after an accident on the bike then he can look forward to a lifetime on the bare minimum NHS provided support as his insurance won't be paying out anything.
His insurers wouldn't be paying out for his own injuries even if he had a full licence. TwigtheWonderkid said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
Mikehartle said:
in that case it should be compulsory to provide license details to insurers to prevent this
they can easily look it up online now A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
TooMany2cvs said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
Mikehartle said:
in that case it should be compulsory to provide license details to insurers to prevent this
they can easily look it up online now A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
KungFuPanda said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Dromedary66 said:
If he ends up a quadriplegic after an accident on the bike then he can look forward to a lifetime on the bare minimum NHS provided support as his insurance won't be paying out anything.
His insurers wouldn't be paying out for his own injuries even if he had a full licence. TwigtheWonderkid said:
TooMany2cvs said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
Dave Hedgehog said:
Mikehartle said:
in that case it should be compulsory to provide license details to insurers to prevent this
they can easily look it up online now A load of extra faff, staffing costs and hassle and for what, to check a handful of idiots. And the cost will be past on to us. Far better off doing this for the far smaller number of people who actually claim.
http://www.mylicence.org.uk/mydata/
This is separate from the Joe Public share code, which only applies to those without MyLicence access.
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