DVLA licence renewal - would this help?

[DABurleigh]

I'll want to renew my licence later this year, protecting my C1E and Motorcycle Class A categories.

Apparently I can ignore the requirement to return my original licence by claiming I need it for overseas car rental, but regarding DVLA's (bizarre?) claim that they keep no database so that they cannot recover your entitlements without the card issued, would it be sufficient (should the worst happen) to produce screenshots of THEIR records of my Driver and Vehicles Account showing precisely my entitlements before expiry, attached to an email sent to myself to datestamp it?

Dave

 

[menis]

They must have a database - see this article

New DVLA driving licence rule change could impact older drivers for key reason

Elderly drivers could be affected by a new DVKLA driving licence update set to be introduced later in 2025.

www.express.co.uk

Menis

 

[Whippet93]

It is, as you say, bizarre, that you can go online to see this information but they have "no database ".
I know it is possible to share this information, for example, with an employer who needs to verify your licence details, so maybe it would be possible to do the same sharing with the DVLA?

 

[carolyn]

Nick has just done his for the first time and it went smoothly. We didn’t send his old driving licence back. I just put a letter in saying we needed it for car hire purposes.

We were worried we might have confused matters as in Feb he’d said he was going to give up his C1 licence on his 70th birthday on the 29th April so he already had a new licence without it but changed our minds as Lenny HB had said it was easy. It really was, he did it with D4drivers.

We kept both old licences until we were sure it was back and OK.

 

[pagey]

Don't send your old license back you can say you need it for european travel or do what I do just tick the box and don't sent it I've never had a problem with that they lose a lot of mail and won't question it

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[Abacist]

Big piece on BBC news this morning about the number of deaths caused by drivers who have been told not to drive by Doctors & Opticians but carry on then kill someone! The only mandatory eye test is when taking your driving test for the first time when you are asked to read a number plate. So car drivers and motorcyclists who don’t drive HGV which require medical and eye tests can get away with murder!

If cars require an MOT then so do the drivers! We are the most lax in all the EU in this regard evidently.

 

[Abacist]

It is currently a self certify system and there is no way for doctors or opticians to report that someone should not drive any more - the database has no provision for it! Sounds typically not fit for purpose!