Eden District say age 60 if born before 6th April 1950 or pensionable age if born after 5th April 1950.
Pensionable age for women is moving ATM to get them inline with men. I don't get the state pension until I'm 66.
It will be a medical condition that gets my driving licence taken away and that will trigger a free bus pass. B-)
Just got my replacement 3 year photo licence why do you have to keep the fragile bit of paper with the photocard but also keep it safe. The silly bit of paper would be a lot safer locked up at home than kicking about in my wallet.
Am I alone in disliking all pricing schemes which require you to select a tariff based on guessing your usage pattern in advance?
IIRC there was a brief spell when Orange had a simple arrangement
- whatever your usage, it would apply the tariff which cost you least.
There is also an anomaly in pretty well all energy pricing. The fixed charge, or initial high rate, means that high users effectively pay less per unit overall than those who are at the bottom of the scale.
In London, school buses are available for use by the public although you would have to be mad to want to travel on one round here!
However, there are some areas where, presumably, the kids are better behaved and the school buses cover, as in your case, routes that otherwise have no buses, that are regularly used by the public.
It might be worth your while enquiring either from the operator or, probably a better bet, the local authority involved.
This only applies, of course, if they are registered services - I note that, in some places, school buses display contract numbers are are obviously being operated as private hires ...
Are you sure about that? My understanding has always been that, with the all-paper licence (which I still have) that you could detach the counterpart, as it is called, from the licence itself and keep it separate.
A police officer can demand to see your licence (or for you to produce it in 5 days) but has no right to see the counterpart.
If convicted of an offence, on the other hand, you MUST surrender the counterpart to the court.
KEEP THIS SAFE Counterpart Driving Licence Important Document - The photocard and paper counterpart should be kept together. Both must be produced when required.
And in a filled box top left on the rear:
"THIS DOCUMENT is the Counterpart as defined in the Road Traffic Act. It is an important document and should be kept safely. The photocard and paper counterpart should be kept together. Both must be produced when required."
It is technically an offence to drive without having your licence on you so if a constable or vehicle examiner wants to see it they can. However:
1) There is no legal requirement to carry your (complete) licence in the UK. Other countries do have such a requirement.
2) In the UK there is a statutary "get out of jail" abilty to produce your documents at a police station of your choice within seven days.
Seven days but WTH. B-) But the "licence" as I understand it is both parts together. The bits on their own are a "photocard" and "counterpart" and do not constitute a "driving licence". This is not helped of course by the photocard having "Driving Licence" across the top of it...
Also:
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" ... on being so required by a constable or vehicle examiner, produce his licence and its counterpart for examination, so as to enable the constable or vehicle examiner to ascertain the name and address of the holder of the licence, the date of issue, and the authority by which they were issued."
'Cause that is the bit where any penalties/points are recorded.
Niether does ours but in can creep up slowly. We have been as high as 24 units/day yearly average, I try to keep it under 20...
That's the other problem with switching to the best value deal. Quite often they are fixed term, after which you automagically revert to that suppliers, more expensive, standard tariff.
Did consider switching him as he's been on a BG "fixed but we start at current + 7%" tariff (shocking that BG sell this to the elderly!) - but with current price rises he's only now starting to win on the deal so leaving well alone until 2015 when his deal ends.
Well yes that and the fact it never leaves private land so no tax, no insurance and I have driven it a few times while being waaaaaay over the legal limit. Just because I can and nobody can do anything about it.
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