Cost of speed

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Martin

I think cremation's pretty OK from that viewpoint. Unless they've got
mercury amalgam fillings.

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Was it? Perhaps I was thinking of the licence category changes. When
Class 1 got replaced by C+E (unrestricted) in the early 90s we all had
to hand over our little greasy grey book and get the classes
tranferred to the ordinary Driving Licence. Now, with the card,
there's only just enough room on it to get all my categories on.

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I think maybe Ben is referring to the terinology - big trucks are called
LGVs these days.

But he knows more about it than I do, so I'll shut up now.

 

No, it changed on 1st January 1997.

I got my Class 1 on 10 December 1996, exactly three weeks before The
Big Change. If I'd failed, I wouldn't have been able to get another
test before Christmas, and so after the New Year I'd have had to have
done a rigid test first.

That's when HGV became LGV.

 

I wasn't doubting your date.
I got confused between the licence terminology change and the vehicle
terminology change. Separate HGV licences (grey greasy books) were
phased out long before '97 and the classes you held were transferred
to new categories on your paper driving licence.
I assumed (wrongly it seems) that the vehicle re-classification took
place at the same time.

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I think maybe Ben is referring to the terinology - big trucks are called
LGVs these days.[/QUOTE]

Well, that was my original, if somewhat veiled point in answer to
Platy's joke.

Yeah, Ben's had a truck licence for just over 8 years now.

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I've just got a letter from the DVLA confirming receipt of a SORN
declaration. It's got some blurb about what to do if you want to
re-license the vehicle, including:

"if the vehicle is a heavy good vehicle (HGV), you can license it at a
DVLA Local Office by filling in a V85..." etc etc.

Seems somebody forgot to tell them HGVs don't exist anymore

 

I found similar mentions to HGVs throughout the DVLA website when
trying to find the dates that all the terminology changes.
It's called joined up government.

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