HGV medical

[the-norseman]

Quick question!

A few years ago my ex bought me a driving experience with Scania UK which involved going out on the roads of MK for about 90 minutes in a rigid, as part of this I had to get my provisional licence and do a medical, which I did.

I'm 34 now, I have since then done no HGV training at all but am wondering about doing my licence, will my medical still be valid? it says online that it stays valid till your 45, but I'm sure I read somewhere that is only true if you pass your test? if you don't its only valid for so long?

Most of the training centres offer courses that include getting provisional, medical etc but I don't want to pay for that if I don't need to.

Can you also go from car to CE now? I saw they were on about introducing it.

[the-norseman]

Seems to be every 5 years of your over 45 and every year over 65 according to DVLA website but can't find out if mine is still valid.

[the-norseman]

I asked the local training centre for some advise their reply was "check your licence to see if the provisionals are still valid" , That doesn't really answer question about medical.

[the-norseman]

So according to that now I have the provision its "valid"

Yeh I've got provisional for C1, C , D1, D on the online check but then on my actual license I have C1, C, D1, D, BE, C1E, CE, D1E and DE

[the-norseman]

Unfortunately I was about 7 in 1997 , passed car test in 2006

[the-norseman]

At the moment , I want to get my licence but I'm happy working for the railway so could I get the licence without the CPC? just to have the licence.

[the-norseman]

AMC243 said:

You could indeed, that would be modules 1 and 3 and you'd get the letters on your licence. Not sure what you'd do with it apart from maybe drive a big campervan but there's no requirement to do the full suite if you don't want to make a living out of it.

At the moment I just want to do it, as its always something I've wanted to do, but at the moment I have no plans to "work" in the HGV sector.