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Forced charge for new driving license photograph
propes:
I am a self employed agency hgv driver and when you send your licence back for the photo renewal,get ripped off for £20 + £4 for the photo's and the fekkin stamp on the envelope theoretically i cannot work for the 15 days til my licence comes back as i am expected to have it on me at all times i am working. If i go into a new company for a days work they require my licence for a check,if i dont have it on me...goodbye..lose the shift! Now the worst bit is if i want to talk to the assholes at dvla i cant because it is now an automated system at PREMIUM RATE!!! Apparently the government thieves made £1.24million out of the phonecalls to DVLA last year. Rip off Britain..... you better believe it.
Sider:
--- Quote from: paul_humphreys on July 22, 2009, 17:16:28 ---I have to update mine every 5 years anyway as I am a HGV/LGV driver, so work will pay.
Paul
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That's only because you are an old geezer, methinks :D:D:D
Propes, make a good coloured copy (or scan) of the license before sending it off, and make sure the agency keeps their license checks up to date. Any customer will understand it.
I have had to send my license away 3 times in the last 5 years (twice because we moved, once to add my C+E), and never had any problems with any customer.
bravo669:
well when i passed my test and got my original photo licence, it was valid until 2051 or something like that!! when i changed my address its now valid until 2014! which is only 7 years from when i changed the address!
Yoshi:
--- Quote from: bravo669 on July 25, 2009, 11:30:52 ---well when i passed my test and got my original photo licence, it was valid until 2051 or something like that!! when i changed my address its now valid until 2014! which is only 7 years from when i changed the address!
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I bet you changed your address 3 years after you got your photocard????
Also, its not a "forced" charge. Its just a charge. Do you expect them to do it for free?? Am sure the plastic for the photocards isnt free, am sure the ink they use to print the thing out isnt free, am sure the printer itself wasnt free!!
Also its not an automated thing, so therefore someone has to be paid to do it. Then they send it out to you in the post which i am sure is also not free!!
Maybe the price shouldnt be as high as it is, i dont know and personally i dont care, however stop moaning about having to pay something, cos if you get it for free you can be damned sure they will take the money off you somewhere else, and to be honest they should do to as the items used and the time used to make the license are not free!!!!!!!!!
datalas:
when I updated my licence I got to choose the "use the photo off my passport" option, which is cool as it didn't cost me anything...
my passport renewal says I can use the photo off my driving licence ...
hmm, wonder if I can look 21 forever :?
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