Dreaded 70th medical for DVLA (1 Viewer)

[champers]

Johns 70th is in August but learnt that you can apply 3months prior for driving 3.5tons - 7.5 tons...medical done 1st June ... dvla paperwork completed and as we dont live far from Swansea took the forms in personally same day

But well done Swansea DVLA ...John received a letter today stating that he satisfies the medical team and they have issued him with his full icence with all entitlements and should arrive within 14 days

Wahoo !!!

Kath n John

 

[TUCANO]

Mine is also due for renewal in August and I have tried twice to get the ball rolling with it but my surgery says that I have to wait until they contact me and I can't initiate it myself. May I ask how much you had to pay as I have been told by the surgery that it will be anywhere between £50 and £150 depending on which doctor does it !!

 

[Badknee]

I've decided that having got my hgv licence back last year I'm going to renew it every year as long as I can. £57.00 for the medical with a specialist company, all paperwork done for you as well. Imo gp's are using it as a money making exercise along with flu jabs and diabetics.

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[TUCANO]

I've decided that having got my hgv licence back last year I'm going to renew it every year as long as I can. £57.00 for the medical with a specialist company, all paperwork done for you as well. Imo gp's are using it as a money making exercise along with flu jabs and diabetics.

Thanks for that, could you tell me how to contact a specialist other than my GP to get the medical sooner and possibly cheaper, many thanks.
Norman.

 

[daveandsan]

Johns 70th is in August but learnt that you can apply 3months prior for driving 3.5tons - 7.5 tons...medical done 1st June ... dvla paperwork completed and as we dont live far from Swansea took the forms in personally same day

But well done Swansea DVLA ...John received a letter today stating that be satisfies the medical team and they have issued him with his full icence with all entitlements and should arrive within 14 days

Wahoo !!!

Kath n John

I did the same, license due in March but applied just before Xmas.
Arrived back from the New Year meet and the new license was on the door mat.

 

[glenn2926]

Try doctors for drivers etc. There plenty of doctors advertising on the internet. My last HGV medical cost about £40 including eye sight test. Doctor had all the forms pre populated. I just signed where shown posted it off and a couple of weeks later got my license. Do not send your old license with the forms even though it is asked for. Tick the lost license box. New ones have been coming back groups missing and without your old license you have no proof of ever having that group.

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[champers]

Mine is also due for renewal in August and I have tried twice to get the ball rolling with it but my surgery says that I have to wait until they contact me and I can't initiate it myself. May I ask how much you had to pay as I have been told by the surgery that it will be anywhere between £50 and £150 depending on which doctor does it !!

John went to the Dvla requested the correct forms ...D4 medical form , then booked his medical direct with our surgery cost £108.60

His doctor was also a qualified optician so that is sufficient as far as we know

The doctor fills in the medical form but make sure he fills it correctly as Swansea DVLA told us they return a lot incorrectly filled forms....you then fill in the Dvla licence application forms and send all off to them .. he did buy new photos but they were not required


Hope this helps ..hoping all goes well for you

Kath

 

[champers]

Try doctors for drivers etc. There plenty of doctors advertising on the internet. My last HGV medical cost about £40 including eye sight test. Doctor had all the forms pre populated. I just signed where shown posted it off and a couple of weeks later got my license. Do not send your old license with the forms even though it is asked for. Tick the lost license box. New ones have been coming back groups missing and without your old license you have no proof of ever having that group.

John did take his passport but they did not look at it

He did try to find those doctors clinics who do the medical for £50 or so but there were none in our area...so it was our local surgery

Kath

 

[Badknee]

The ones I have been told about you meet on a service area and they may have ten appointments. They have a mobile surgery and do the eye test as well. Jock @JockandRita knows of them too.

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[colyboy]

"Doctors on Wheels" they will come to a largest town near you and do it for £50 , eye site aswelll. Takes about 15 minutes.

Colyboy

 

[irnbru]

Well done @champers and anyone else whose got through it

Good luck with it @TUCANO

@daveandsan you don't look old enough to have applied for yours

 

[JJ]

Congratulations John...

Of course he sailed through his medical, thanks to all that (free) fitness training he got at Quinta Majay.

JJ

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[Ambilkate]

Brilliant Kath glads that's all sorted for you both .it must be such a worry having to go through that . Bills 63 so we don't have to worry to much about it just yet but all this info will be noted for when it is needed x hope to catch up with you two it's been o er two years

 

[champers]

Well wonder of wonders... guess what arrived today ... yep Johns new licence .. someone is definitely looking out for us ....as JJ would say ...it is a sign xx
Thank you DVLA for your efficient service
Kath ...

 

[tonka]

What a bummer. !!!!?
I was hoping there was going to be a nice newish motorhome going cheap.




Seriously, Well pleased for both of you, a few more years happy motorhoming ..

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[mexican pete]

I can also thoroughly recommend Doctors on Wheels. Booked online and got the time and place convenient to me and he had all the correct forms including the eyesight test.

 

[sedge]

Our GP surgery charge over £50 more for a 'leisure' licence medical than they do for 'occupational' ones - last time I looked at the price list over 2 years ago, it would cost him about £140. I'm not intending to look again cos when it actually needs doing, before Xmas this year, he'll just book it with Drs On Wheels.

He'll already have to invest in photos as well though, being as he's still got his paper licence! - and I dunno about his ex-wifes ancestry being half Scots, I think his is too, secretly .....

 

[Ven]

That's great news

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[TUCANO]

I have tried and tried and tried and tried to get some sense from the doctors on wheels website, tried sooo much I feel sick, should go to the doctors
Whenever I type in York it tells me to choose a location YORK GODDAMNIT