Photocard licence

[Joe Black]

I love whipping it out over here. When peeps look at all the pictures of vehicles I'm allowed to drive they go ooooohhhhh.

Funny enough I had a look at my licence last year and was surprised at what categories I was covered for.

Don't know what you get on passing your test these days, but when I got mine (circa 20 years ago) it's seems I was automatically qualified to drive everything from A to E, with the exception of a 16+ ton tractor/trailer.

PS: I'll leave the whipping it out bit for someone else to comment on...

[sasguru]

<plop> sound of threaded pulling his head out of his own arse.
<chomp> sound of threaded eating his pies.<schlump> sound of threaded putting his head back up his own arse.

Piles?

[darmstadt]

If you drive in Europe, well Denmark for certain, you need the photocard one, and you also need to carry the paper counterpart.

I love whipping it out over here. When peeps look at all the pictures of vehicles I'm allowed to drive they go ooooohhhhh.

The German police thought (probably still do if I get stopped again) my UK one was strange but pretty good. Firstly they wanted to know where the photo was. Then they wanted to know why it was so large and in a fetching shade of pink and green. The extra pages were for all my traffic endorsments (67 points total on it when I moved here) which they thought was pretty nifty as they only have a credit card sized photo license and your points are held on a big computer in Flensburg. In the old East Germany they used to punch holes for points on your license and the copper remarked that my license would be pretty religious (holey) by now.

[Churchill]

Would that be so he can re-eat the pie as it comes out?

Yup, saves the discomfort of regurgitation.

[Fleetwood]

Threaded

I love whipping it out over here

Fleetwood : I love whipping it out over her*

(* new bird)

[ladymuck]

<schlump> sound of threaded putting his head back up his own arse.

Would that be so he can re-eat the pie as it comes out?

[Churchill]

If you drive in Europe, well Denmark for certain, you need the photocard one, and you also need to carry the paper counterpart.

I love whipping it out over here. When peeps look at all the pictures of vehicles I'm allowed to drive they go ooooohhhhh.

<plop> sound of threaded pulling his head out of his own arse.
<chomp> sound of threaded eating his pies.
<schlump> sound of threaded putting his head back up his own arse.

[threaded]

If you drive in Europe, well Denmark for certain, you need the photocard one, and you also need to carry the paper counterpart.

I love whipping it out over here. When peeps look at all the pictures of vehicles I'm allowed to drive they go ooooohhhhh.

[Bovvered]

Legally you should keep them together. Of course no-one does. What a design travesty of our time.

[VectraMan]

I didn't think you had to carry either, just produce them on demand. Everytime I've needed to show my licence (like hiring a car) they've demanded to see both, but I guess the idea is that the card you can carry around all the time to use as ID or if the police stop you for doing 30.000001 mph. The counterpart only shows your points.

[The Lone Gunman]

Somebody please tell me they haven't gone and made a licence that you can carry in a credit-card wallet at last, and then added a compulsory extra bit of paper that means that it still won't fit in a credit-card wallet?

I could tell you that......it would be a lie but I could.
New licence is in two parts and requires both parts to be presented. That said, the card part is accepted by most as proof of ID you just need the paper bit (which carries points and stuff) when asked for a producer.

[Bovvered]

The card is credit card size. The counterpart is A4. Legally you are supposed to carry them both around together.

Don't question it; whoever came up with it is one of Brown's servants.

[expat]

I've been out of the country for a while, and I see that there is now a photocard driving licence. But there are a couple of things I don't know or understand:

1. is it credit-card sized? That is, will it fit into a credit card wallet? The DVLA web site for some reason doesn't seem to think that this is something one would want to know.

2. What's this counterpart thing? They seem to say that a licence = a photocard + a counterpart. So what good is the photocard licence on its own?

Somebody please tell me they haven't gone and made a licence that you can carry in a credit-card wallet at last, and then added a compulsory extra bit of paper that means that it still won't fit in a credit-card wallet?