Reply to: Car hire with old paper license

[NigelJK]

Unless you are carrying a token?

[CoolCat]

The old beer token scam. Sell loads, people dont use them, then on the last day have ONE person doing refunds and a massive queue. Loads of people think sod it not bothering.

They've done well to sell plastic tokens for a fiver to thousands of people.

yes partly that I am sure, but also trying to protect the cash in a beer tent when half the audience are legally carrying hand guns is impossible, so they keep the money handling to a secure caravan with appropriate guards and the beer tents can be a whole lot less risky for everyone.

[BrilloPad]

A passport is only a valid for m of id if it is blue and does not have the words "EU" on the front.

I know that is true as a red-faced old giffer told me so in the pub last night.

[psychocandy]

yea the only real problem is music festivals in the USA where they ask to see your licence when you buy beer tokens (they literally sell beer tokens because the shed that sells the tokens needs an armed guard, and you then take the tokens to the beer tent in the usual manner). can be quite funny when they realise your licence has no photo, so you can get allsorts of reactions.

no problem to hire a car with it there though.

The old beer token scam. Sell loads, people dont use them, then on the last day have ONE person doing refunds and a massive queue. Loads of people think sod it not bothering.

They've done well to sell plastic tokens for a fiver to thousands of people.

[CoolCat]

Not a problem, have hired various vehicles without requiring any other ID. (The license is looking the worse for wear after 35 years though).

yea the only real problem is music festivals in the USA where they ask to see your licence when you buy beer tokens (they literally sell beer tokens because the shed that sells the tokens needs an armed guard, and you then take the tokens to the beer tent in the usual manner). can be quite funny when they realise your licence has no photo, so you can get allsorts of reactions.

no problem to hire a car with it there though.

[Grasser73]

Not a problem, have hired various vehicles without requiring any other ID. (The license is looking the worse for wear after 35 years though).

[DoctorStrangelove]

such licences dont expire until your 70th birthday

I quite like mine

Me too.

Though I'll have to change mine soon.

[CoolCat]

As long as the address details printed on the license are still correct, then it’s still valid.

such licences dont expire until your 70th birthday

I quite like mine

[SueEllen]

Are you sure your license has not expired then ?


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They don't expire but they encourage you gently to get a new one as it isn't photo ID.

[WTFH]

Are you sure your license has not expired then ?


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As long as the address details printed on the license are still correct, then it’s still valid.

[GhostofTarbera]

Errr, because I haven't got one. They didn't exist when I passed my test.



That's good to know, thanks. Can you remember what you had to tell them to identify yourself? Did you have to give your NI number like on the web form?

Are you sure your license has not expired then ?


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[CoolCat]

Has anyone hired a car in the UK using an old school paper license recently, and if so did you have any problem in doing so?

I've got to hire a hire for the first time in years next week and notice there's some DVLA code some people have to apply for but everything I've read in connection with that mentions the paper counterpart to the photo license, not the older paper only license I've got.

yes and no, I've always had a passport in my back pocket in case they want photo id, but none of them ever asked for it

[meridian]

That's good to know, thanks. Can you remember what you had to tell them to identify yourself? Did you have to give your NI number like on the web form?

Just click the link above, on the first page it tells you what information you need to provide.

[ittony]

Dunno. Why not plastic card license?

Errr, because I haven't got one. They didn't exist when I passed my test.

As for the DVLA code, I forgot the other week. Car hire place just phoned DVLA when I was there, put me on to give permission to tell them, sorted.

That's good to know, thanks. Can you remember what you had to tell them to identify yourself? Did you have to give your NI number like on the web form?

[SimonMac]

Has anyone hired a car in the UK using an old school paper license recently, and if so did you have any problem in doing so?

I've got to hire a hire for the first time in years next week and notice there's some DVLA code some people have to apply for but everything I've read in connection with that mentions the paper counterpart to the photo license, not the older paper only license I've got.

I assume the DVLA code is this:

View or share your driving licence information - GOV.UK

It's a print out to show what points you have on your licences