Any experience of a UK Resident Having a Motorhome for non-UK resident to use

[watsonjones]

Does anyone have any experience on either side of the equation where a UK resident purchases, or has a motorhome, that they allow a non-UK resident to use. We are Ex-Pat's now living in the US and would like to come to the UK and borrow a motorhome owned by my sister, a UK resident. The motorhome has yet to be purchased. Our plan is to use the motorhome to tour the UK and Europe for around six months out of the year for the next few years. We plan to try to secure third party insurance to cover our use of the vehicle.

 

[royandsharont]

That’s not true. Just Google the question, you must be resident to hold a U.K. licence. Using a postal address is not resident. Driving licences are issued by country of residence

 

[VXman]

That’s not true. Just Google the question, you must be resident to hold a U.K. licence. Using a postal address is not resident. Driving licences are issued by country of residence

Hmm.... I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years. Whenever I came back for visits I hired a car in the UK. I used my UK license (it was all I had) which was still under my UK house address. (Which was rented out to a tenant.)

No idea if that was not allowed. Didn't cross my mind it wouldn't be. I even got a speeding fine on it. I am not aware that any UK 'officials' knew I no longer resided in the UK.

 

[Rapides]

I would simply send in a normal 'change of address' notification to the DVLA with your sisters address.

Exactly what my daughter did using our address, after she’d been out of the country for years. I seriously doubt that her licence would be considered valid when push comes to shove, hence my not allowing her to use it to drive my cars when she’s over.

 

[Rapides]

Our daughter lives in the USA with her American husband. They both have American licences only. When they come over to us we can get the son in law named on the fuuly comp insurance for my wife's car for the period they are here. We use LV and it normally costs about £20.

Hats off to you. As said previously, I’ve never found an insurer who’ll accept an American licence, and it’s not for want of trying.

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[peterc10]

Hats off to you. As said previously, I’ve never found an insurer who’ll accept an American licence, and it’s not for want of trying.

Have you tried LV. They may not want the licence holder named for a year but OK if it is a few weeks.

 

[Brains]

Exactly what my daughter did using our address, after she’d been out of the country for years. I seriously doubt that her licence would be considered valid when push comes to shove, hence my not allowing her to use it to drive my cars when she’s over.

I spent considerable time out of the UK many years ago.

I still owned a UK flat, which I rented out, but it was still my 'registered' address for my Bank, my doctor, and anything official, I even kept the right to vote, to this day I'm still listed for a postal vote.

When I moved back to the UK I simply changed my address.
The only comment was from the local surgery.
Apparently "my" listed Doctor, had retired some 21 years previously,
they had to dig my paper records out of a box in the basement.

In the Maritime business it is far from unusual to have people not resident in any particular country for very long, it's a global business, so people may have several 'homes' at any given time.
(There is some truth in the old adage of a 'wife in every port')

The kids are at school in the UK, the wife is in the the flat in Singapore, you are working out of Dubai for a company based in the Americas on board a ship registered in Africa carrying a cargo from South America to India, and your salary is paid in €uros.

I have many colleagues who have done 20, 30, 40 years overseas and then return to the UK in their late 50's or early 60's and pick up where they left off, including driving on a licence that was originally issued in the 1970's.

 

[gus-lopez]

I seriously doubt that her licence would be considered valid when push comes to shove,

If they supplied a new one then it is valid. apart from medical revocation you can't'have the right to a licence removed by the dvla,only by a court for offences.

 

[starquake]

If they supplied a new one then it is valid. apart from medical revocation you can't'have the right to a licence removed by the dvla,only by a court for offences.

Indeed I'm not a lawyer, but having resided in UK and US and holding both licences for a bit, when going to US for work and residing there for a few months for meetings and training from US teams, work wanted me to hold both licenses, and this was done. (they were an insurer, and this was needed for their "pool" and owned company cars). Something to do with rules about doign this for an extended > 1 year period. US advice to citizens is " A United States citizen residing in the United Kingdom may drive by virtue of his/her valid American license for a period of one year. After this period has expired, he/she must be in possession of a British license."

It's a little difficult to get a US one without a SSN but was possible when I did about 20 years ago. Involved a test and about a day at the famously long queues at the DMV in TN.

It's reasonably common, and licenses remain valid for some time. The US license was also reasonably useful prior to expiry for us domestic flights too.

That said a UK license was useful in the US as the police there seemed more willng to write off tickets as international licenses were more paperwork.