It would seem your position is outlined here:

www.motordefencelawyers.co.uk/motoring-offences/me.../

Have you anything in black and white that DVLA have said you are OK to drive other than perhaps a letter to say that until such time as they have assessed your position drive on. Once making a decision to revoke then they inform you of the fact and you no longer can drive until the outcome of their medical investigation.

Rules and regulations unfortunately

dvd

Thanks for the advice, I'll give the Pepipoo website a look & also start getting letters together. Worryng how long things take though even when no good reason for loss of licence.

Yes that would be a good idea. Prob be less errors too.

DVLA is awful, the staff are unhelpful, everything is so slow, you really get the feeling they couldnt care less. Getting new letter from doc & psychiatrist to reiterate what the DVLA has been told already, I am fit to drive. MP office going to try to mave things faster for us, fingers crossed.

I think you will find Skidpan that the posters Insurance will include the clause

"cover providing driver/PH holds or HAS HELD a driving Licence"

as such a revoked Licence does not nullify Insurance. Section 148 RTA 88 will also cover medical condition.

But sound advise not to drive until sorted otherwise car will finish up on back of a recovery vehicle and forthwith to the Pound leading to fine and three fiqure release fee plus storage costs to get out of said Pound.

dvd

DVLA is awful, the staff are unhelpful, everything is so slow, you really get the feeling they couldnt care less. Getting new letter from doc & psychiatrist to reiterate what the DVLA has been told already, I am fit to drive. MP office going to try to mave things faster for us, fingers crossed.

I take issue with this. I have always found DVLA staff to be as helpful as possible when I have had contact with them.

When I returned from switzerland having lived outside the uk for many years they guided me towards getting my licence confirmed by the swiss authorities.

Just at that time i fainted on a particularly hot summer day after going to cool off in a shower and was hospitalised after the sudden loss of consciousness.

They told me what to do and how to do it and I saw my GP, had a full medical and the incident was recorded as a single transient occurence.

It took a few weeks and I was told that once they were satisfied i would be informed of the decision. In fact my licence arrived in the post a week or so later.

I have had dealings with them regarding mislaying documents, and queries about vehicle transfers and most recently the new keeper document (log book) as i had changed my car a couple of days after changing my insurance company and needed to "prove" the vehicle was indeed registered to me.

DVLA are now seriously understaffed due to staff cuts and the extra millions of drivers and the removal?integration of the Northern Ireland office as well as the closure of the local centres.

I am sorry that the OP is distressed, but a little patience and I am sure all will be well.

Yes we love to hate DVLA, but in my humble opinion, they generally get it right.

Sorry RT, but DVLA appear to have a valid reason (for them), which may well be appealed in a satisfactory way.

Perhaps I could have said, "don;t get stressed over it" but I recognise that the OP is already stressed.

As I said, they generally get it right in the end, and I will add that the way that the OP deals with the appeals process CAN effect the outcome.

Not a lot of good saying it now, but patience and calm.

I hope nobody has to go through this, but the best way to get a result is to follow the appeals procedures, using your GP, (and remember you have a right to see the letter that your GP submits).

Hopefully the MP can help, but nothing is instant, and DVLA do have a duty to get their facts right.

Remember a certain dustbin driver anyone?

Edited by oldroverboy. on 21/09/2015 at 18:09