Need help.. Hgv licence

[Jessica L]

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[trophywench]

It's after 'a couple' of assisted hypos, not unassisted ones that you can lose your licence and that applies whatever licence you happen to hold.

I presume you have a Training Organisation in mind who are prepared to accept an insulin dependent diabetic and also realise the cost of training plus the annual cost of a medical every year to renew the licence?

Can you even go straight from 'just a car licence' to an HGV provisional? Did you even pass or choose to retain your C1 - not sure I'd want to try driving anything that big before I'd driven a large van LOL

Anyway - best of luck!

 

[Robin]

Hi Jessica. I'm sorry, I can't help on the actual HGV question. But the rules for driving cars aren't so stringent, they don't want to know if you EVER hypo, only if you need assistance from a third party if you do have one; and whether you have hypo awareness. So they are not at liberty to remove your car licence, provided you fulfill those conditions, even if you don't meet HGV standards.
I think the problems that may have occurred with people losing their car licence is when their doctor has inadvertently put something prejudicial, or unclear, in their report. So make sure the doctor doing the report understands that you do have hypo awareness and you don't need assistance with hypos, and stress how important it is that they don't mess it up! (Politely, of course!)

 

[HOBIE]

hi I know it’s been brung up before but.. I have type 1 Diabeties, its been my dream for a long time to do my hgv licence. In the past my sugars have been very high now I am in control of them I have been monitoring them for the last three months to take to the doctor/consultant to see if I can apply for my licence. But now I am scared as I have read on another feed that it would be a big risk as they may take my car licence off me if they see my sugars have gone under 3/4 a few times. Is this true? Also they have been a few times where I have been unwell where they have been high. My main question is should I bother? Or just wait untill I’m 100% on every reading? It worries me I haven’t really ever met a type 1 Diabetic lorry driver.
Thankyou

Hello Jessica. That's what I wanted to do after leaving school as well 🙂. Driving & finding places 😎. Good luck

 

[mikeyB]

It’s not overly complicated to drive HGVs with Type 1 Diabetes. The advice is fairly strict about checking. Full info at:

https://assets.publishing.service.g...ply-for-Group-2-Entitlement-bus-and-lorry.pdf

 

[trophywench]

No it isn't Mike in terms of the diabetes - just very expensive to get the necessary training is all !

 

[Landymech]

I used to be able to drive a 7.5 tonne truck until the DVLA and government medical officials changed the rules since that rubbish truck in scotland drove into and killed people as the driver had a heart attack at the wheel and in a nutshell you have to have excellent health to drive a truck 7.5 tonnes and above , as an insulin depandant diabetic i applied for my C1 licence (7.5 tonne) back again , went through all the blood monitoring for many months, dvla sent me to an independant diabetic consultant who examined my monitor sent the readings off to DVLA then got a letter off DVLA who took my car licence and therefor my livelyhood off me until i could proove i was able to control my diabetes. i had 2 hypos in the 3 months i monitored my blood for, 3 times a day for 3 months and did not miss one test.
Good luck in trying to convince the government medical board and DVLA that your able to handle your diabetes and a truck, it took me 6 months to convince them i was stable and then i got my car licence back, my advice...dont even bother.

 

[trophywench]

You only tested 3x a day? - that's not very much! 4x a day is the absolute minimum we're sposed to do, though of course if driving we have to do it every 2 hours.

It's to be hoped that Jessica has a much more informative routine.

 

[HOBIE]

I used to be able to drive a 7.5 tonne truck until the DVLA and government medical officials changed the rules since that rubbish truck in scotland drove into and killed people as the driver had a heart attack at the wheel and in a nutshell you have to have excellent health to drive a truck 7.5 tonnes and above , as an insulin depandant diabetic i applied for my C1 licence (7.5 tonne) back again , went through all the blood monitoring for many months, dvla sent me to an independant diabetic consultant who examined my monitor sent the readings off to DVLA then got a letter off DVLA who took my car licence and therefor my livelyhood off me until i could proove i was able to control my diabetes. i had 2 hypos in the 3 months i monitored my blood for, 3 times a day for 3 months and did not miss one test.
Good luck in trying to convince the government medical board and DVLA that your able to handle your diabetes and a truck, it took me 6 months to convince them i was stable and then i got my car licence back, my advice...dont even bother.

Sorry to here Ladymech.