We were admiring a brand spankers Bailey Autograph on a car park in town today and talking to the proud owners. Conversation covered lots of topics and then on to weight. His MH was 8 metres long so asked what weight he could have on it and he said that they had gone for the 3850 kg model as he was short on payload on his last motorhome.
I explained that I had just had ours upgraded to 3850 kg but had waited until I had retained my C1 licence at 70 years.
At this his eyes started glazing over and asked why that was important? I explained grandad rights and what happened to your licence at 70 but that in most cases keeping your C1 wasn't difficult unless you had heart or other health problems. "I have problems with my heart" he said. "and I am 70 in eight months time"
He had no idea that he needed to apply for a C1 at 70 or what it entailed !!!!
I advised to get as much information as he could about keeping his C1.
I have thought a bit about whether I should post this, but decided to do so in order to highlight this situation as we seem to have quite a lot of people joining the forum and asking for advise about motorhomes to buy.
I explained that I had just had ours upgraded to 3850 kg but had waited until I had retained my C1 licence at 70 years.
At this his eyes started glazing over and asked why that was important? I explained grandad rights and what happened to your licence at 70 but that in most cases keeping your C1 wasn't difficult unless you had heart or other health problems. "I have problems with my heart" he said. "and I am 70 in eight months time"
He had no idea that he needed to apply for a C1 at 70 or what it entailed !!!!
I advised to get as much information as he could about keeping his C1.
I have thought a bit about whether I should post this, but decided to do so in order to highlight this situation as we seem to have quite a lot of people joining the forum and asking for advise about motorhomes to buy.