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DVLA won't let me renew driving licence online
DIR By: sean5302
Date: September 2, 2024, 1:16 pm
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I want to renew my photocard driving licence.
All well and good until the system asks me whether I have
entitlement to groups C1, C1E, D1 and D1E
Category C1:
You can drive:
Vehicles weighing between 3,500 and 7,500 kg (with a trailer up
to 750 kg), with no more than 8 passengers and driver
Category C1E:
Restrictions:
107 Not more than 8250 kg
You can drive:
Vehicles weighing between 3,500 and 7,500 kg (with a trailer
over 750 kg), with no more than 8 passengers and driver. The
combined weight of both can't exceed 12,000 kg
Category D1:
Restrictions:
101 Not for Hire or reward
You can drive:
Vehicles with no more than 16 passenger seats and driver and
with a maximum length not exceeding 8 metres with a trailer up
to 750 kg if 'valid from' date shown on the licence is on or
after 19 January 2013. If date shown is before 19 January 2013
not limited to 8 m restriction
Category D1E:
Restrictions:
101 Not for Hire or reward
119 Weight limit does not apply
You can drive:
Vehicles with no more than 16 passenger seats and driver and
with a maximum length not exceeding 8 metres with a trailer over
750 kg, provided that the Maximum Authorised Mass (MAM) of the
combination formed does not exceed 12,000 kg if 'valid from'
date shown on the licence is on or after 19 January 2013. If
date shown is before 19 January 2013 not limited to 8 m
restriction
The system then says I can't proceed online and have to submit a
paper application.
The forms arrived today and it's a full-on medical examination
report, application for lorry, bus or minibus driving licence
with new photo and all the business.
I eventually spoke to someone at DVLA who said she wasn't sure
but thought I could just do the online application and the
Groups might be there on the new licence.
An utter shambles, to be honest.
Anyone got experience of this, please?
#Post#: 35388--------------------------------------------------
Re: DVLA won't let me renew driving licence online
DIR By: sean5302
Date: September 2, 2024, 4:19 pm
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Just to clarify, I have grandfather rights to these groups
because I first got my licence in 1973.
I don't drive the vehicles mentioned but don't want to lose
something I currently have.
Surprising that the DVLA woman didn't know and neither did any
of her colleagues she asked.
#Post#: 35445--------------------------------------------------
Re: DVLA won't let me renew driving licence online
DIR By: Fluffykins
Date: September 3, 2024, 6:59 am
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Why are you renewing? Change of address? Age?
#Post#: 35449--------------------------------------------------
Re: DVLA won't let me renew driving licence online
DIR By: sean5302
Date: September 3, 2024, 7:10 am
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The photocard requires renewal every 10 years despite my
original licence supposedly running until age 70.
I've checked and there is such legislqation requiring the card
to be updated each 10 years.
Curiously, if I just renew it I don't need to submit a new
photograph because they use the one from my passport (which is
exactly the same one as on the old photocard).
Bonkers.
What troubled me was the DVLA who don't know their elbows from
their bottoms.
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Re: DVLA won't let me renew driving licence online
DIR By: roythebus
Date: September 3, 2024, 1:44 pm
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You have grandfather rights to drive lorries up to 7500kg
subject to restriction 101 and the same right to drive buses as
described subject to 101. You don't need a medical for that
unless you drive them for hire or reward, that means carrying
passengers or goods and someone is paying for that service, not
always the fact that the driver may be getting paid to do so.
If it's any help I sent my licence renewal to the DVLA in
February, it expired in March and am still waiting for the
licence to come back! But then I'm "over 70" and have to renew
every year with a medical for bus driving. I would suggest you
come under the section 88 exemption which enables you to
continue driving as long as the DVLA has receipt of your renewal
application.
I'm not certain if a medical is required for bus/lorry bit with
101 restriction. I know you don't need a driver CPC card with a
101 restriction.
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