Poll: What type of driving licence do you have?

What type of UK driving licence do you have?

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The photo card license is good because it can act to verify your photo and your address.

I recently had to do this online and it allowed me to verify my address instead of sending a bill.
 
Full + Motorbike + HGV + Track + Bus + Hazmat

The HGV and Bus have probably run out, but the test involved driving in straight line down a airstrip then reversing back 50M between two cones. Good times :)
 
Hagar said:
I thought all UK driving licences had tractors as a group or is this legacy only. I drove one at 16 (may have been 15?).
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...ory-requirements-a-brief-guide-september-2017

Agricultural tractors require a category F licence to drive on the public road. Category B (car) licence holders automatically have category F entitlement.
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Cat B is a normal car license. I guess the only proviso is that the tractor would probably be a manual vehicle(?) so you'd need to have passed ytour car test in a manual.
 
Resident said:
Kelloggs have a lot to answer for.

The scary thing is that it's estimated that there are at least 1/2 million unlicenced drivers on UK roads.

I've also personally noticed a rise in foreign registered cars on the road.
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Indeed on both counts.

Four times in my career I have worked with HGV drivers who it turned out had never passed an HGV test nor received the entitlement under “Grandfather rights”, I remember one was a hopeless case the other three actually were certainly average at worse, it only came to light when the companies concerned introduced license checks!
 
At one time all farmers sons learnt on their dad's tractor even reverse towing through gates etc. Most tractors of the vintage I drove had no synchromesh and you set off in the gear you were going to travel in. Not the huge behemoths seen on today's roads.
 
Hagar said:
I thought all UK driving licences had tractors as a group or is this legacy only. I drove one at 16 (may have been 15?).
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You can sit a tractor test at 16 to drive a tractor on the road at 16 instead of waiting until 17 for car test.

The crazy thing is you can then tow a mahoosive trailer fully laden at 16 behind saidd tractor whereas you need a Class 1 to do the same with an artic (I appreciate this is to do with speeds and motorways which tractors aren't alllowed on).

The towing may have changed if you passed it since 1997 as you need a seperate test to tow a trailer behind a car since then
 
Scania said:
Far easier way.... :D ...snip...
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Ah, that explains the generally poor driving standards out there. It's bad up here, but no where near as bad as where I used to live in the West Midlands.

As for me, I have Full + Motorcycle + HGV (Rigid) entitlements. Not an entitlement per se, but I'm also a blue light driver.
 
Richie said:
You can sit a tractor test at 16 to drive a tractor on the road at 16 instead of waiting until 17 for car test.

The crazy thing is you can then tow a mahoosive trailer fully laden at 16 behind saidd tractor whereas you need a Class 1 to do the same with an artic (I appreciate this is to do with speeds and motorways which tractors aren't alllowed on).

The towing may have changed if you passed it since 1997 as you need a seperate test to tow a trailer behind a car since then
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I passed my car test in 1970 (so on downward slope now). I drove tractors off road from 15ish but as you say towing weights on even an older tractor included a large 4 wheel / 2 axle (one steering and one fixed), trailer loaded with straw bales. Reversing that into a barn with little rearward visibility was an art form after a car.
 
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