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derryscaff

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My mate has been driving a 7.5 ton for past 20 years and vosa pulled him and told him his licence didn't cover him to drive a commercial vehicle and that he Wud need to do his c1 test. When he asked bout grandfather rights cus he was driving b4 they changed the licence they told him it didn't apply to commercial vehicle but only for horse box and stuff like that. We hav 2 drivers who this Wud effect
 
Ok pal this is what you have to do lodge a former complaint to the traffic commissioner at harehills lane leeds and explain the situation to him 7.5ton new legislation only applies for those who do not have the grandfather rights .
And if your drivers have been driving 7.5ton trucks they are well within their rights to lodge an investigation on why the vosa officer was discriminating them for having their entitlement on their licence nothing to worry about there fella .
 
If you where over 21 with a full liecence before 2000 you have grandfather rights to dive upto 7.5tonne GVW ,
So he is in the wrong unless laws are slightly different in N.I
 
Thanks lads same laws apply here so I thought the same as u. 2 of our scaffs can drive the 7.5 tons or so I thought so was shocked to b told they cudnt.
 
VOSA told our admin that all our drivers needed CPC licenses, yet when we got stopped on the motorway the officer doing the check said we didn't if we were scaffolding as well as driving. They don't know what they are doing!
 
I was asked to show my scaffolders card when I got pulled a few weeks ago ,
If you don't have a card then you need CPC is the way it was put to me.
 
philliosmaximus said:
I was asked to show my scaffolders card when I got pulled a few weeks ago ,
If you don't have a card then you need CPC is the way it was put to me.
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Strange that Phil, you don't need a scaffold card to scaffold in the UK so how they use that as evidence I don't know :D
 
Transports Friend - Driver CPC evidencing, enforcement and exemptions

Exemptions - General
There are exceptions from the Driver CPC qualification for drivers of vehicles:
•used for non-commercial carriage of passengers or goods, for personal use;
•undergoing road tests for technical development, repair or maintenance purposes, or of new or rebuilt vehicles which have not yet been put into service;
•used in the course of driving lessons for the purpose of enabling that person to obtain a driving licence or a Driver CPC;
•carrying material or equipment to be used by that person in the course of his or her work, provided that driving that vehicle does not constitute the driver's principal activity***
•with a maximum authorised speed not exceeding 45 km/h;
•used by, or under the control of, the armed forces, civil defence, the fire service and forces responsible for maintaining public order;
•used in states of emergency or assigned to rescue missions.

***An example of a driver under exemption vii (also known as "incidental driver") would be a bricklayer who drives a load of bricks from the builder's yard to the building site and then spends their working day laying bricks. In this case, driving a lorry is incidental to their main occupation.
 
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