Driving licence problem

[maxinepeck]

Can anyone advise me please, I had to reapply for my full driving licence due to a drink drive ban, I held it since 1994 so I had the C1 on y licence.

 

I got it back around 2003 but it only has B and Be on it now, but on the back it dates from 1994.

 

Why have I lost these categories from when I had them in 1994?

[2ltr16valve]

seems dvla do this a lot. They did the same to me and swear blind I never had cat c1 or c.

Unless you have a copy of your license to prove otherwise then I don't think you will get far as they will not admit they are wrong without a long fight

[maxinepeck]

but its on their website that if you passed before 1997 then you automatically have them so why do they dissapear i didnt have to retake my test just apply for my licence back

[2ltr16valve]

but its on their website that if you passed before 1997 then you automatically have them so why do they dissapear i didnt have to retake my test just apply for my licence back

 

I asked them that exact question and was just fobbed off time and time again.

[maxinepeck]

I am going to take it further you are penalised and pay back with losing your licence some people need that on there for their job if they were driving a lorry as a job before the licence was lost, they should replace it like for like.

[BazzaS]

You passed your test, and were given C1.

However, your licence was revoked.

 

You don't have your "old licence back " - you have been issued with a new one. Since your original test pass C1 is no longer automatically granted with a B pass, hence why your new licence doesn't have it.

 

If you were renewing your old licence it would be there but in effect you have a new licence rather than your old one.

[maxinepeck]

Right I see that just seems strange really as to why you should lose an entilement

[kregrs]

You passed your test, and were given C1.

However, your licence was revoked.

 

You don't have your "old licence back " - you have been issued with a new one. Since your original test pass C1 is no longer automatically granted with a B pass, hence why your new licence doesn't have it.

 

If you were renewing your old licence it would be there but in effect you have a new licence rather than your old one.

 

Not strictly true. I was disqualified in 2006 for 15 months, when I reapplied for my licence it came back the same as before, I had not lost C1 entitlement.

 

The rules surrounding licences are strange, when I had a heart attack 3yrs ago, after 3 months the DVLA said it was ok to resume driving, including a C1 category vehicle. Yet if I had had a medical to get my C1 (have it through grandfather rights) then I'd have to have fitness test to be able to drive it, as I did for my C provisional.

[Raykay]

You passed your test, and were given C1.

However, your licence was revoked.

 

You don't have your "old licence back " - you have been issued with a new one. Since your original test pass C1 is no longer automatically granted with a B pass, hence why your new licence doesn't have it.

 

If you were renewing your old licence it would be there but in effect you have a new licence rather than your old one.

 

The licence was not revoked, the OP was disqualified by a court from holding a licence, when that disqualification ended they could apply for their licence back - which should have been exactly the same as it was before.