Driving a 7.5 tonne?

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Ok so i am picking new lorry up tomorrow! (** Yipppeee**)

So my dad insure it today. They said its insured for anyone over 25 and over. So i said that my OH cant drive it, (25) but just missed out on passing driving test before the law changed. Meaning to drive it he would need to take LGV or HGV.

So dad rings them back, and they say he can drive it because he's over 25 yrs. Put if he was pulled by the police then surely he would be done as he passed his test a year to late?

If that made any sense at all?? Can someone please clear this up, my dad is convinced my OH can now drive it?
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Ok so i am picking new lorry up tomorrow! (** Yipppeee**)

So my dad insure it today. They said its insured for anyone over 25 and over. So i said that my OH cant drive it, (25) but just missed out on passing driving test before the law changed. Meaning to drive it he would need to take LGV or HGV.

So dad rings them back, and they say he can drive it because he's over 25 yrs. Put if he was pulled by the police then surely he would be done as he passed his test a year to late?

If that made any sense at all?? Can someone please clear this up, my dad is convinced my OH can now drive it?
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He can drive it with your dad sitting next to him and L Plates on hun ?? also will need a provisional x

im 25 and can only drive a 3.5ton but have provisional HGV on my license !!

I think its anyone under the age of about 27 now cant drive one - you had to pass before 1997 !!
 
I think regardless of what the insurance says, you always have to have the correct license for the vehicle you are driving.
I have over 25s for my 3.5t that doesnt mean a 25YO with no license could drive it, if you get me!!

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Yep this is what is have said, and my dad explained the whole not haveing passed his test before X date, and she didnt just repeated that anyone 25+ could drive it.

I doesnt matter anyway, my OH has no intensions of driving it, he hates horses! (even though without them he wouldnt have a business!)

Thanks!
 
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I doesnt matter anyway, my OH has no intensions of driving it, he hates horses! (even though without them he wouldnt have a business!)

Thanks!

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hmm sounds exactly the same as mine !!
 
Sounds to me that it's just as well you have a sensible head on your shoulders. Someone else may just have let their OH go ahead and drive it - heaven forbid some kind of accident taking place as the insurance would no doubt have been null and void.
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Insurance is only valid if you have the correct license so if he passed his test after cut off date then without having taken additional test he would not be insured - friend of mine learnt the hard way after she caused 19k damamge to a Merc SLK!
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If he drove without the correct licence, this would invalidate the insurance, so in an accident, you could not claim, plus he would be charged with driving without insurance.
 
Your OH's driving licence will say if he can or can't drive it. Sounds like he's only allowed up to 3.5 tonne. Insurance will be null and void if he's not licenced to drive it. Bear in mind the person you spoke to on the phone will be most likely reading from the T&C's...it probably mentions that elsewhere from the age limits.
 
The person at the Insurance Company is an idiot.......any <font color="red"> licensed driver over 25 years </font> can drive on that insurance....simple as that. That idiot would be telling you that a disqualified driver over 25years could drive it as well.

I'm afraid when you pay peanuts you get monkeys....&amp; that company has monkeys working for them.
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