paper driving license

[Wafer]

For me, looking stuff up online is quicker, easier, preferable to finding bits of paper...

 

[w00hoo_kent]

[QUOTE 3809307, member: 45"]I've heard claims, but never met anyone who it's happened to.[/QUOTE]
Happened to a friends wife, I know because she can't be arsed to fix it until she needs to and he's forever whinging about the fact that by the time she gets round to it they'll say it's been too long to rectify. Not that either of them know for sure.

 

[DCLane]

A photo driving licence is useful as ID - e.g. collecting foreign currency, picking up stuff from the sorting office, test riding bikes at Evans...

I use my BC race licence as photo ID; it's often a talking point.

 

[tyred]

Why would anyone want a paper driving licence? I am actually looking forward to mine expiring in a few years time so I can get one of the new credit card ones which would fit in my wallet instead of the huge and easily damaged monstrosity I have at the moment.

The cheeky mare at the desk at Hertz in Edinburgh had the cheek to laugh at it when I rented a car a few months ago.

BTW, I am not Maureen O' Reilly. That's just a picture I borrowed of the net.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

And I think she may have a forged signature on that one...

 

[gelfy666]

you can be fined £1000 for not notifying them of any changes ie address.

 

[Glenn]

If you have a current passport, then when applying for the Driving licence there is (or was 3 years ago) a box to tick giving permission to use the picture already on record.

 

[slowmotion]

I have a thirty-year-old paper one that is very battered and is held together by a whole load of Sellotape. It has my one speeding endorsement written on it in Biro by a kind person at DVLC. The car hire company in Avignon was amused by its distressed state last week, but were quite happy to accept it for all their form filling. I'm sticking with it. I heard an ugly rumour that the plastic jobbies need renewing every few years and that you will be stiffed every time you renew. That's progress.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I heard an ugly rumour that the plastic jobbies need renewing every few years and that you will be stiffed every time you renew. That's progress.

As has been mentioned up thread, every 10 years and £14 to renew. The first is annoying as it's leading to people forgetting (it's not really a 'stick in your diary' type time scale) and ending up unwittingly illegal (not that being unwitting is any excuse) the second is significantly cheaper than I thought it would be. Cue someone announcing it should be £1000 as it'll teach those dirty cage drivers a lesson.

 

[vickster]

You'll all lose the paper ones when you hit 70...may not be too long for some of you

 

[ufkacbln]

[QUOTE 3809117, member: 45"]Why would you put yourself to more trouble by keeping your old one?[/QUOTE]
I like it!

 

[ufkacbln]

1. Because the old one doesn't run out every 10 years? Not having a photo ID driving license is yet to cause me a problem.

Does for my mother in law

Post Office: Do you have a driving license?

MIL: No , I'm 87 and blind.. There isn't any point

Post Office: Do you have a passport?

MIL: Why, I can't afford to go abroad

.., and so it went on, and all she was doing was collecting a parcel

 

[ufkacbln]

You'll all lose the paper ones when you hit 70...may not be too long for some of you

I will be using the compulsory cycle license before then

 

[slowmotion]

You'll all lose the paper ones when you hit 70...may not be too long for some of you

Bog off.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 3809818, member: 45"]It is permanently printed on the card itself. What more do you want?[/QUOTE]
I want not to pay £14 every 10 years........and it won't be £14 in ten years time, will it? It'll be some arbitrarily inflated milking fee.