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prowler:
As long as you passed test before Jan 1st 1997 you should have D1 on your licence [ D1 is up to 16 seats ]You wont be able to drive Taxi as your medical will pick up you diabetes, That was first question I was asked when I took my Taxi medical

Berliner Beer:
I would seem I am off the hook........ I have taken advice from a reliable source. Provided I dont use it for hire and reward I`m the right age etc.
Thanks for everyones input. I will write to LRO and put them straight when I have recovered from the heart attack I nearly suffered :!:

Berliner Beer:
Sent my letter to LRO wonder if they will publish :?:

Range Rover Blues:
Glad you got sorted.  LRO are incorrect as you have found.  Anyone passing before 1997 will have the so-called 'grandfather rights' to D1 (minibus, restricted) E (large trailer) and C1 (7.5 tonne comercial) and as I'm aware you can drive these catagories for work but not to carry passengers for payment, so you can get a job driving a delivery truck or council minibus.  The problem often arrises that for the insurance some councils now run an internal test scheme, my mate has to take them, 3 to be exact, minibus, minibus and trailer, minibus and large trailer.  Best bit is the waiting list for the test is longer then the chit lasts :roll:

Siecroz:
We are having a major problem with this in the Army Cadets.. Most of us Younger instructors passed our test post 1997 (me by a couple of months!!  :evil: ) so they are finding it harder and harder to bus kids around.

Although we are a voluntary unit. MOD insurance also requires us to have a D1 to be insured in "Green Fleet". We have found a way around it in "White Fleet" (Minibuses) by something called a "Permit 19". Which is vehicle specific rather than driver.

Dont ask me what a Permit 19 is though... and we still have to do a familiarisation and a Tick Test before we get our FMT600 (MOD Driving Permit)

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