Driving Licence

[caddyman]

It turns out that the placed I lived when I first came to London does not appear in the Royal Mail address database and therefore neither does it appear in the DVLC database. This is annoying since I can walk any interested party to the building and poibnt it out to them.

Now the upshot of this is that I cannot update my driving licence online. This is a pain.

I guess it's my own fault, the address on it is twenty years out of date, but since I haven't owned or indeed even driven a car in all that time, it never rweally bothered me. Unfortunately, it does seem to mean that I am now the forgotten driver and I am going to have to phone DVLC and ask what we do next. I expect they will say I should have updated the address every time I moved, but in the past twenty years, I have simply had no use for a car. I'm not sure I do now, but it is a little unfair to expect Furtle to drive us everywhere on the few occasions we hire a vehicle. I should at least share the chore. I am licenced to drive, no doubt about that, but hiring a car with an address that is 20+ years out of date is problematic (unless I am on a trip to the US where frankly, I could wave a piece of tast at the car hire people).

So, to get the new photo licence I have to make a phone call and probably get morte photos taken, instead of them just using those held by the passport people.

I've slipped through the system, people!

Comments

[irdm.livejournal.com]

They can use the passport photos?
I suppose they do scan them, rather then one on the book, one of the paperwork....

One day *I* may have to resort to a non-papyrus licence.
I've lived in the same place for 25 years so I've never (knowingly!, he says muttering about "grandfather rights"!) needed a nasty plastic thing.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

The passport office do some digital doohickery with the photos and print them directly onto the passport rather than just stick them down as in earlier times.

That means they are held on a pooter and can be used by DVLC.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

And then you'll have to renew your driving licence every ten years - at a cost - once you have the photgrphy one. My paper one runs out in 7 years. I will be 70 then, and have to let them know I am still alive and can still drive.

[pauln.livejournal.com]

And do so again every three years after that. My grandfather is now on his 9th renewal.

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

I've just got back from Andalusia, where I hired a car for the week, with a drivers licence which has a ten-year out-of-date address. Just tell the hirer that you have recently moved, and supply them with your current address. It should satisfy them.