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Originally Posted by GORDON STREETER
Make sure if you are applying for a new licence that you have got the same when it is returned, I notice that the powers that be have stopped me driving a seven and a half ton job, is this normal ?
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Depends on your age, Gordon. I had to renew mine last year when I turned 70, and I lost all of mine LGV entitlements.
Not complaining, as I have no wish to drive trucks anymore. Having got my HGV Class 1 in 1970 because of grandfathering rights, I sometimes found myself driving trucks more often than doing my proper job. We went through a period of having trucks laden trucks being stolen overnight, even out of secure lorry parks, and I went rushing around the country retrieving our nicked wagons.
Except for one occasion when one of our drivers decided that a liquid lunch would be preferable to eating in a greasy spoon, and when he was poured out of the pub, he couldn't remember where he had parked the truck.
I spent about 18 hours scouring West London looking for the blooming thing, it having been reported stolen by our inebriated driver, and I found it a couple of hundred yards from the pub that he had been in, with a windscreen covered in parking tickets. The police are probably still looking for the truck.