• Nearly a million drivers facing huge fines
    • 21/02/2023
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    Motorists around the UK have been urged to check their driving licences to avoid fines of up to £5,000. Recent figures from the DVLA have shown that the driving licences of more than 926,000 people in Britain needed to be updated as of September 2022. The stats account for over two per cent of British drivers, [...]
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  • Counterpart disposal presents new challenges
    • 26/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The latest figures from CV-Library, a UK job site, reveal that job growth within the automotive industry is steadily growing. In May 2015, automotive jobs increased by 16.44% when compared with the same time period in 2014. This month saw the abolition of the paper counterpart – a fairly big step as the [...]
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  • OAP’s driving hopes crushed
    • 10/06/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The BBC reports that Surrey pensioner has been left counting the cost of failing to renew his driving licence after his car was impounded and then crushed by police. Jerome Lee, 70, from Oxted, was stopped in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, for driving with an out-of-date licence. He was told his Peugeot 306 [...]
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  • Driving licence changes affect businesses
    • 20/05/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The driving licence counterpart was introduced in 1998 to display information that could not fit on the photocard driving licence. It includes penalty point information and provisional vehicle entitlements. After 17 years of dutifully doing its job the counterpart will be abolished on 8 June 2015. This means that [...]
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  • NFDA issues licence reminder
    • 30/04/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The National Franchised Dealers Association (NFDA) has issued a reminder regarding the abolition of the counterpart to the photocard driving licence. From 8 June 2015, the paper counterpart of the driving licence (D740) is to be abolished and will no longer be issued by the the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency [...]
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