OAP s and driving licences

[Fastcar155]

What makes you say that?

Hi , Worcestershire County Council / Department of Transport have spent millions of pounds putting in place a ring road round Worcester.

The improvements worked for literally for 7 days and now road around Worcester are grid locked.

We have to many car on the road , no worthwhile public transport and in the rural parts of the county many OAP are prisoners in the own homes.

As I have said before remove the drivers and that removes cars on the road.

I at going for a week's rest in Devon soon with our daughter plus her dog.
I can do that trip for £100.00 in petrol.

Train costs £290.00 and that includes rail cards discounts.

The other issue I have is that the train drivers are dictating my life style.

Week government is the problem and I voted for the clowns.

 

[Fastcar155]

Wonder how you would feel if its your 70th birthday tomorrow
Funny how we are all wonderful drivers, its always the one coming towards you or behind who can't drive to save there lives

Hi , I am 73 years old and on a 3 year licence.

 

[Darrell]

The age at which you qualify for the state pension depends on when you were born though - discrimination! Previously 65, currently 66, and will be 67 by March 2028. Mine is due to start when I'm 66 and 5 months.

I’ll be dead by then.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

It certainly won't happen while there's a Conservative government - they have a higher share of the older vote.

The bigger issue is that there’s no evidence to support the change of policy.

Insurance premiums show that the over 65’s aren’t having the collisions.

With a quarter of all road deaths being caused by 17-24 year olds who are barely driving anywhere, the more likely change is to the young.

Which could be restrictions on people carried or time of day driven.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

The age at which you qualify for the state pension depends on when you were born though - discrimination! Previously 65, currently 66, and will be 67 by March 2028. Mine is due to start when I'm 66 and 5 months.

Through increasing life expectancy.

When the state pension was brought in, life expectancy was 65, so payments were made but only half actually collected.

At your retirement you’ll be looking at an average of 20 years worth of pension payments, plus all kinds of goodies that were unknown in the past: free meds, free public transport, discounted services, and care support as things grind to an end. All paid for by those daft enough to work.

It’s not discrimination it’s life expectancy.

You’ve even got a one in ten chance that you’ll live until you’re 95.

You won’t remember why you wanted to, or who your kids are, but that’s a one in ten chance of pulling in pensions and benefits for three decades.

 

[Tonye]

Can't wait till next February, caching

 

[BandyAndy]

Can't wait till next May !

 

[baxlin]

Can't wait till next May !

Believe me, it’s worth the wait!!

 

[190]

I read this morning that the DWP will demanding that 1,000,000 people find employment.

They will get individual cases wrong without a doubt but the underlying reason for the DWP's initiative will be that 5.4 million working age people are in receipt of out of work benefits. Even if they get 1 million back to work we will still have almost another million more than before Covid. Unless this is addressed then the UK is going to be a permanent basket case and remain uncompetitive compared to other countries. The challenge will be to know who makes up the 5.4 million. There will be long term sick including long Covid but there has to be a large element in there of people who the Covid stay at home experience has taught a sense of entitlement such that they are happy to live on benefits.

As for fireworks and fighting in the street then watch out for a clamp down on benefit increases before the next election.

 

[DanE350cdi]

Don't even get me started on the NHS!!!!!

 

[Fastcar155]

Hi , the DVLA are at it again , driving is the easy bit , it the paperwork that will cause real problems !

 

[JHS]

Hi , the DVLA are at it again , driving is the easy bit , it the paperwork that will cause real problems !

How?

 

[DITTRICH]

For some older drivers, keeping the driving license is not so much about driving but with a passport, these are sufficient to prove ID and address.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Hi , the DVLA are at it again , driving is the easy bit , it the paperwork that will cause real problems !

Next up, automated online queuing processes for GP's and Hospital appointments. All designed by people under 35, with not a clue about simplicity for the majority of actual NHS users.

Current minor example for me: four online processes to get in front of a GP, a 10 minute GP meeting, then FOUR "customer feedback forms after that one meeting" - yes: Four, then a link to arrange an appointment with a consultant at three possible hospitals, NONE of which had slots available, so then a message left with a hospital to request an appointment. In France, Germany, or the US, it would have been a telephone request for a meeting with a GP, and then a hospital consultant. in front of a consultant within two weeks.

This is how the NHS rations treatment to the majority of its users: the old. And busies itself with being busy.

"Our NHS:" "Stockholm Syndrome."

 

[Dryce]

For some older drivers, keeping the driving license is not so much about driving but with a passport, these are sufficient to prove ID and address.

I think this is a very important point - in the UK we have no proper identity card - and the driving licence has become an accepted alternative when dealing with organisations such as banks - or taking domestic flights.

 

[JHS]

I think this is a very important point - in the UK we have no proper identity card - and the driving licence has become an accepted alternative when dealing with organisations such as banks - or taking domestic flights.

We are British and will resist any form of identity card as it is a violation of our hard earned freedom!!! Only fit for Johnny Foreigner!
Rule Britannia,Land of hope and Glory,Jerusalem, God save the King!!
What's that you say? The driving licence has the same information as an identity card would have? Brexit will get rid of this sneaky EU curtailment of our freedom.

 

[zipdip]

Well I am 74 and I am going to take the HGV1 medical and get my licence back,not sure I am going to do the CPC might for a laugh but I will get the 7,5 ton back on my licence,might even get a unit to drive round in always fancied a Actros,as for older drivers having small driving tests I am all for it,all that needs to happen is the examiner gets in the persons car and asks them to drive for 20 mins max,and that will show if the older person is aware of whats going on,just the treat of a small driving test will have the effect of them handing in their licence.

 

[JHS]

On a serious note, I am sure that, in between two of my many daily naps, I came across the fact that drivers over 70 have fewer accidents than average , but that the cost of repairs per accident were considerably higher. Hence the stratospheric insurance premiums for us elder citizens.

 

[baxlin]

What worries me is the number of people I hear of who say that they only drive ‘to the shops’ now, because they aren’t confident to do longer distances. I suppose that’s the reason for reports that most road accidents happen within a mile of the driver’s home.

 

[ALFAitalia]

.....which is why I park my car just over a mile away from my house......! Safety First and all that!