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smokeysmoo
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Rang the DVLA this morning and they've confirmed it's next July.No probs
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Happy days..Rang the DVLA this morning and they've confirmed it's next July.
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I thought it was 50 when you had to have your first test, has it changed, I let mine lapse as I wasn't prepared to pay the £110 the doctor wanted, may have been an error as some days I feel like walking out of here, a driving job would tie me over.
vickster
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Just don't leave it to the last minute to organiseRang the DVLA this morning and they've confirmed it's next July.
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smokeysmoo
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It must have then. It's 45 now then every 5 years* until 65, and then annually as Pete said.
*Unless something changes medically that would alter this, a diagnoses of diabetes for example would probably make it annual regardless of age.
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Just checked my old license & my CE & D ended in 2010 on my 50th, but probably need to take the CPC if I wanted to come back.
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smokeysmoo
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I get the impression it's just another jobs for the boys type of thing, bit like the Part P for electrics, nothing to do with safety all about selling insuranceCPC!!
Tanis8472
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You need to do eye test first. Doctors won't fill in rest without it. I had prices from £50-£100 for doctors.
Yep, good call @Tanis8472 make sure that your place of choice includes the eye test! Mine did. I said up there ^ ^ that I paid £45. It was actually £35, now I've thought about it.
Avoid GP's unless your company pays for it, or you have money to burn..
(Happily, my company pays for my CPC training. I have endured 10 sessions so far!)
Avoid GP's unless your company pays for it, or you have money to burn..
(Happily, my company pays for my CPC training. I have endured 10 sessions so far!)
Scottish Scrutineer
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CPC!!
35 hours of your life you can never get back
Not to mention a few hundred quid
I've never started the CPC cycle, but I know if I ever got totally cheesed off where I am, I would just spend the week at one of the training centres to do my 35hrs. I suppose I could see if I could join some of the CPC courses that work runs, but I don't really need my C+E, and if I was to drive LGV at work, I'd claim to be outside CPC requirements as I'd be testing or assessing the vehicles.
The irony is, I used to work in haulage as LGV Instructor and ADR Instructor.
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smokeysmoo
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[QUOTE 5073128, member: 9609"]Better off driving a farm tractor, a whole lot less crap for starters[/QUOTE]
Yet a whole lot more in another sense
Yet a whole lot more in another sense
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smokeysmoo
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We're slightly in the grey area with this due to distance from base, (same reason skip companies can generally dodge cpc), but although we don't cover any great distances as a rule the fact is that we could, so we have to tick the cpc box to cover our backs.
DVLA - ? Huh - ! 
When I passed my Class 2 HGV, I was advised by the examiner not to submit my original pass cert as I would never see it again. So I duly went to my local DVLA office where the nice man said because he'd seen the original, a photocopy would be fine. But not for the jobsworth @ Swansea. Had to sent the original off; last I ever saw of it. Then when the renewal came up, the form stated that as long as I submitted the dox before a certain date, |I could forgo the full medical. Wee problem was that I received said dox two weeks after that date - ! Huh - ! 
But as my job had changed and I was fed up with HGVing after 16 years I decided s*d it and didn't renew. But that's beside the point - !
When I passed my Class 2 HGV, I was advised by the examiner not to submit my original pass cert as I would never see it again. So I duly went to my local DVLA office where the nice man said because he'd seen the original, a photocopy would be fine. But not for the jobsworth @ Swansea. Had to sent the original off; last I ever saw of it. Then when the renewal came up, the form stated that as long as I submitted the dox before a certain date, |I could forgo the full medical. Wee problem was that I received said dox two weeks after that date - ! Huh - ! But as my job had changed and I was fed up with HGVing after 16 years I decided s*d it and didn't renew. But that's beside the point - !