Hi sue do you not get your eyes tested etc. People who are over seventy, Heart patients, T1s all have restricted licences. There is form that you have to fill in & tell Dvla. Every 3 years(max) you have to fill in the form sign it & then it goes off to your consultant,Gp, & Eye people then they sign it or not !
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Pumper_Sue
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I have a 3 yr licence, No eye people involved as have no eye problems that need looking at.
The form only goes to GP if there is a cause for concern on the form you filled in.
I have never had to sign to say I needed help with a hypo. I have hypo warnings. So no problems. 🙂
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Never Hobie - until this year - I decided to learn to drive in 1985 _ I'd had a prov when I was 17 to about 24, then didn't bother after that as I couldn't afford lessons, so had to start again from scratch. Passed my test in 1986.
In 1996, I packed up driving voluntarily for 12 months as I had a couple of accidents from hypos (lost hypo awareness on Humulin) and I thought my consultant might say I ought to, and he did. I instigated that meeting, no-one else although the police had attended both scenes and knew I was hypo. He wrote to DVLA at that time to say what we were doing. They never replied to him and I never heard from them. 15 months later I said to consultant had he heard owt? and he said No, have you? - I said No which is just as well really cos a week after the 12 months expired I started driving again but am not doing the distances I was then - since I'd had to change me job anyway (was doing approx 60k a year at that time!)
Since then, never anything at all.
Until this year. Started trying to renew my licence (due mid Jan 2012) last October as per normal and because of all the dleays with everything DVLA did and didn't do, they eventually actually renewed it in July 2012.
I have no idea whatsoever why yours is different, unless you don't just have a car licence. I know you have a full bike licence; anything else? C1 or whatever? I just have car now as I automatically lost my C1 this time.
In 1996, I packed up driving voluntarily for 12 months as I had a couple of accidents from hypos (lost hypo awareness on Humulin) and I thought my consultant might say I ought to, and he did. I instigated that meeting, no-one else although the police had attended both scenes and knew I was hypo. He wrote to DVLA at that time to say what we were doing. They never replied to him and I never heard from them. 15 months later I said to consultant had he heard owt? and he said No, have you? - I said No which is just as well really cos a week after the 12 months expired I started driving again but am not doing the distances I was then - since I'd had to change me job anyway (was doing approx 60k a year at that time!)
Since then, never anything at all.
Until this year. Started trying to renew my licence (due mid Jan 2012) last October as per normal and because of all the dleays with everything DVLA did and didn't do, they eventually actually renewed it in July 2012.
I have no idea whatsoever why yours is different, unless you don't just have a car licence. I know you have a full bike licence; anything else? C1 or whatever? I just have car now as I automatically lost my C1 this time.
trophywench
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Of course - both Sue and I have ALWAYS done that HOBIE and have only EVER had 3-year licences since passing our tests - we were both already diabetic when we took em and when we got our provisionals! And aren't I always the one that says 'if you fib you ain't got a lience and that means you have no insurance' - do you honestly think I could say that - and conceal my own diabetes?
I know for a fact there any many, many other T1's on this and certainly one other forum who have never ever had DVLA ask for further info off anyone, even though they only have their licences 3 years at a time - and DVLA have always been at liberty to do so and always are - even between renewals.
You just have to accept that some of us don't get stuff queried, because that is, how it is! You may think it's automatic because you keep drawing the short straw for some reason - but that's it. You just keep drawing the short straw.
Why do they always ask Pete my husband if he has any weapons - ie guns or knives - about his person or vehicle when we leave Dover? or come back? Do you get asked that when you do?
Or is Pete's shotgun certificate coded into his passport barcode? Which leads them to suspect he has a flick-knife cos he's just about old enough to have been a Ted?
Who knows. Just another couple of life's little mysteries.
I know for a fact there any many, many other T1's on this and certainly one other forum who have never ever had DVLA ask for further info off anyone, even though they only have their licences 3 years at a time - and DVLA have always been at liberty to do so and always are - even between renewals.
You just have to accept that some of us don't get stuff queried, because that is, how it is! You may think it's automatic because you keep drawing the short straw for some reason - but that's it. You just keep drawing the short straw.
Why do they always ask Pete my husband if he has any weapons - ie guns or knives - about his person or vehicle when we leave Dover? or come back? Do you get asked that when you do?
Or is Pete's shotgun certificate coded into his passport barcode? Which leads them to suspect he has a flick-knife cos he's just about old enough to have been a Ted?
Who knows. Just another couple of life's little mysteries.
Pumper_Sue
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Hobie, that's almost insulting
I'm sure it wasn't meant to be 🙂My licence has always been a 3 year licence. I was diagnosed in 1965.
I am quite aware of the rules regarding documents and legal forms and the consequences for lying.
Pumper_Sue
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I said I didn't have to sign to say I was hypo unaware or sign regarding eye sight.
I like everyone else fill in the form comfirming my medical details and sign it and send it back.
As I am hypo aware and have not needed any help hypo wise and have no eye complications there is nothing to tick or sign in that dept 🙂
So nothing for the GP to sign for either and as I suspect the dvla have to pay GP's for the reports they wouldn't send em out unless they needed to.
trophywench
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Yup they do Sue (have to pay)
Whilst all this rubbish was going on with mine and I was about to go and see my consultant next day, who not unsurprisingly needed to see me before he filled my form in for them I had a call from my GP to say he'd just had same form so we needed to make an appt as he couldn't complete it without ... I explained it must be a ****-up and rang DVLA to make sure they only needed one. They did. And GP filed his one in the cylindrical filing cabinet under his desk.
Batty.
Also because I accidentally ticked the wrong box (or omitted to tick the right one or something) on the macular oedema question, not only did they have to pay a driving examiner to say I could read a numberplate from a mile away, but I also had to go back to the optician because he also had a form and it had been 7 months since he saw me ...... if they'd asked him when the licence fell due, he'd have seen me 'last week' and been able to do it from memory anyway LOL
I really really hope this doesn't happen every time from now on, because whilst you are in limbo you can carry on driving in the UK NP but no-one can tell you if you can in other bits of the EU or not. We go abroad quite a lot and if anything happened to Pete, then I might need to drive.
Whilst all this rubbish was going on with mine and I was about to go and see my consultant next day, who not unsurprisingly needed to see me before he filled my form in for them I had a call from my GP to say he'd just had same form so we needed to make an appt as he couldn't complete it without ... I explained it must be a ****-up and rang DVLA to make sure they only needed one. They did. And GP filed his one in the cylindrical filing cabinet under his desk.
Batty.
Also because I accidentally ticked the wrong box (or omitted to tick the right one or something) on the macular oedema question, not only did they have to pay a driving examiner to say I could read a numberplate from a mile away, but I also had to go back to the optician because he also had a form and it had been 7 months since he saw me ...... if they'd asked him when the licence fell due, he'd have seen me 'last week' and been able to do it from memory anyway LOL
I really really hope this doesn't happen every time from now on, because whilst you are in limbo you can carry on driving in the UK NP but no-one can tell you if you can in other bits of the EU or not. We go abroad quite a lot and if anything happened to Pete, then I might need to drive.
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At the risk of sounding cruel, I'd shop 'em in a heartbeat.
Well, firstly I'd tell them that it's outright unacceptable that they're putting people at risk. And if they didn't change, quickly, then I'd go straight to the DVLA.
Why?
Because people like this are the reason we have to go through all this rigmarole to drive. Every time some idiot doesn't take responsibility has a hypo behind the wheel and causes an accident, a little bit of the argument that we're safe to drive with diabetes gets chipped away. I will not put up with the conduct of irresponsible strangers end up ruining my life. There is already talk of withdrawing licenses from anyone who's ever had a hypo (even say a minor one when you're at home) and this is not acceptable.
Well, firstly I'd tell them that it's outright unacceptable that they're putting people at risk. And if they didn't change, quickly, then I'd go straight to the DVLA.
Why?
Because people like this are the reason we have to go through all this rigmarole to drive. Every time some idiot doesn't take responsibility has a hypo behind the wheel and causes an accident, a little bit of the argument that we're safe to drive with diabetes gets chipped away. I will not put up with the conduct of irresponsible strangers end up ruining my life. There is already talk of withdrawing licenses from anyone who's ever had a hypo (even say a minor one when you're at home) and this is not acceptable.
trophywench
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Hear Hear !
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