DVLA Medical licence delays (1 Viewer)

[Dalesfolk]

This in the Guardian today; DVLA Chief Exec admits 168,000 drivers with medical licences are waiting for renewal.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2...ivers-health-conditions-wait-licences-backlog

Grind your teeth folks!

 

[The Artilleryman]

So what's new!

Back in June 2021, it took 5 months for the incompetent w*****s to demand a valid medical form - sent with application, not scanned in by some minimum wage m**** - they would not admit liability for error, so I relinquished my class D license.

The only looser here were the local school kids, as 1 less bus driver to take then to and from school. I was part time as I took early retirement in London and moved to the sticks.

 

[landscaper]

It took 6 months to get my other half’s back after a medical! Horrid feeling not having a licence

 

[Spriddler]

It used to be blamed on Covid and lack of resources. Now it's back to just a lack of resources.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Hey, I got mine back 2 days ago only after an 8 month wait. Yippee!!!!

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[The Artilleryman]

I've known drivers to be waiting up to 9 months for DVLA to sort out medical issues - he was still allowed to drive a bus in the meantime - joke was, as he was over 65 he was on yearly D4 medicals.

I know of several other instances of DVLA incompetence.

That was over 6 years ago, showing they have not improved.

 

[cyberyacht]

Sent mine off a month ago. Heard nothing so far. Licence expires in another month. Section 88 ain't gonna work south of Dover. Perhaps I'll bill them for an all-inclusive somewhere warm and sunny.

 

[Emmit]

From comments made on here by officials from DVLA over the period of Covid with regard to the delay in the processing of D4 licences, all I can say is:

 

[colyboy]

I have been waiting since January!

colyboy