Got your driving licence before 1997? Maybe a IR35 avoidance strategy?

[Sockpuppet]

As a useless piece of information I took my class 1 HGV at 22 - it was a 5 day course given as a birthday present, the extra licence and medical was a small burden but driving artics on the roads was great fun...the bummer was on the fifth day I took and failed the test (my excuse was nerves) but the exerience was invaluable and certainly made me a better road user ....kept meaning to retake it -but never got around to it & now I think you have to go through the classes i.e. class 3,class 2 & before taking class 1.

I do fancy taking the PSV test for 12 seaters - I know people who ferry nubile young girls on hen nights to nightclubs etc, wait around & and take them home.

Quite a lucrative little number by all accounts (they get cash tips)

I used to do that. I had a minibus and was paid to drive it then when I got where I was going I usually got a £60 tip.

Once I had to ferry a football team from Bangor to Cardiff. I let them drink and smoke non cigarette items in the back and got a £150 tip on top of the £100 I already got for driving them. Not bad for an afternoons work when I was a student.

As for the HGV thing there are only 2 classes of "HGV" now. C and C+E (there is also C1 which you get if you take cat C licence and I dont think you can just train to just take C1). Strictly speaking the +E entitlement is a seperate class (trailers over 750kg).

You have to take C first (17.5T lorry) and +E after passing that first. If you take PSV (class D) and have +E (C+E only) you get class D+E automatically. You also get +E on any other class you have such as B+E, C1+E, D1+E and so on.