Didn't know this but the paper version of your Driving Licence is being scrapped; on 8 June!

Some handy info if you're planning to hire a car soon or need to prove you have a 'points free' driving record.

https://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/iam-warns-impending-changes-scrapping-licence-counterpart-100500615.html

Dave G

Cheers for that Dave. Never did bother getting that plastic I.D. driving licence.

Guess I should do now 

  Driving licence people have  decided that I`m still using my old paper licence that needs replacing before I`m 70 in August. So I have the joy of yet another application form to fill in for the faceless  hordes of the civil service 

so are they actually writing to you to tell you, or just hitting you with w fine when you don't know about their secret decision.

I've still got my paper one, though I was expecting to have to change it before next may when I'm 70.

stupid thing is, you still have to carry the paper part of the plastic licence 

when I was an AA patrol several members got caught on that one when they went for a relay plus hire car and only had their plastic thing.

alan

It's only the paper part of the plastic licence that's going. If you have a full paper one, they don't seem to be doing anything to it.

The paper part, of the two part Driving Licence, was supposed to be scrapped last year
It was pulled with just weeks to go...
I was about to shread it!

Quote from Gov.uk

"Paper driving licences issued before the photocard was introduced in 1998 will remain valid and should not be destroyed.

If you need to update your name, address or renew your licence, you will be issued with a photocard only."

So valid until you move, etc.

I have heard about this a few times on radio/tv but also read about it previously online. No doubt the one show and breakfast shows will run special recordings about this during that week as they have a tendency to.

All the paper part of photocard is used for is endorsments etc. The DVLA are moving over to an online system which you will be able to access but also all the Hire companies will have access to. The problems that will arise surround that some of the hire companies are not signed up properly to the new system or if you use a small foreign company may not even be aware of it. There is a code you can apply/print off as far as I am aware that can be provided to the hire companies who then contact the DVLA and get the info required from what I understand. Why the DVLA decided implement it 5 weeks before school holidays god only knows. Why not wait until Sept/Oct when less hire car issues may arise!

Read below for official details on this
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/driving-licence-changes

I'm still using the green paper one , and also have my little red booklet one , with the annual stick in paperwork 
I also found the issued petrol ration books from the 1970's !!!

but don't worry your driver No remains unchanged .

When mine and my wife's U.K. driving licenses came up for renewing some years ago (mine was an old pink coloured paper one held together with lots of cellotape), we decided to swap them for "Spanish" card driving licenses, and because of my age (over 70), I have to undergo a little test every 5 years to get a new one.

You sit at a TV screen and have to keep a car on a moving road using both hands to steer it using a couple of "joysticks" without going off road or bumping into things too often.
It's not as easy as it looks and and I got lots of beeps each time I hid the kerb, and/or went off the road, but I still passed.

You are then asked medical questions, and have your eyesight tested, but the whole thing only takes about 15 minutes, and I reckon that something on similar lines should be introduced in the U.K. It would weed out anyone unfit to drive any more.

The only time I have ever been asked to show my license so far (which under Spanish Law you must carry with you when you drive), is when we hire a car at an Airport in the U.K. As well as a photo on the card, it also has your fingerprint, and can be used as an I.D. card when making purchases. 

What's the betting that at some point in the future the (our) data gets lost in transit/hacked etc
I, too, still have the 1970's ration book although at the time was riding motorcycles so it didn't mean a huge amount to me.

Talking of Ration Books reminds me of the last War (WW2), in which my father served his Country as an Army Dispatch rider, and himself got "mentioned in dispatches" as I still have the oak leave(s) that anyone mentioned in dispatches was awarded as a recognition of gallant or meritorius action in the face of the enemy.

They are probably the oldest thing still in my possesion and were awarded (don't know exactly when) some time between 1939 and 1945, most probably (and I am only guessing) during the time my father was in Italy as I know he was at Monte Casino where a famous battle was fought in 1944 and a where lot of Allies lost their lives.

What's the oldest possesion you have, anything interesting or that has a story attached to it worth recalling?

I have my great great grandmothers bank book for the Glasgow Savings Bank fro 1895 Also the rent book from her laundry business from the same period .

I have the WW1 medals awarded to my great uncle. I wrote off to the Coldstream Guards, where he was a Colour Sergant to get his official record. I found out that he was wounded in the battle at Verdun.

Quote from: Tdm on May 22, 2015, 10:19:59 PM


They are probably the oldest thing still in my possesion and were awarded (don't know exactly when) some time between 1939 and 1945, most probably (and I am only guessing) during the time my father was in Italy as I know he was at Monte Casino where a famous battle was fought in 1944 and a where lot of Allies lost their lives.

What's the oldest possesion you have, anything interesting or that has a story attached to it worth recalling?

My Dad was also at Monte Casino "D Day dodgers !"...  I remember him telling me how terrible it was, he was an Artillery spotter. Hope to visit there one day as it is just down the road so to speak..

My oldest possession is Mrs "H".

Jerry