DVLA or DOT

[Johnny4428]

This slightly puzzled me today. Nothing unusual about these letters, but I did wonder what was needing taxed now?
It’s probably all one department. Maybe a ploy to make sure people open the letters.

[SteveD CB500K0]

They probably have 20 million of those brown envelopes.

[Johnny4428]

Indeed Steve. I was thinking a shortage at DOT and a surplus at DVLA. The government did say they were going to send out one million letters to hgv drivers. I hope they get it sorted. My problem is I would have to travel hundreds of miles from home to reach the heart of where these shortages of drivers are. There’s not really a problem here in Orkney.

[Green1]

Royal mail now have a shortage of HGV driver's due to the extra 1million letters in circulation.  😁

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

I wonder if they will be interested in renewing my HGV Class 3A entitlement from 1980/81 when I did not renew it as I had stopped driving my old Gaffers Bedford TK Horse Box?

I suspect my two heart attacks have scuppered that chance for my dip in the gravy bowl never mind my age.lol

[Bryanj]

Aslong as you pass the stress test Ted your in mate. Look up "Bruce Test" i think you may not bother!

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Aslong as you pass the stress test Ted your in mate. Look up "Bruce Test" i think you may not bother!

When I had a Bruce test in 2009 after some previous stenting I had my first heart attack in the hospital grounds walking back to the car park.
Having never had a heart attack before I had no idea what was the matter with me. I drove the mile and a half home feeling as though I had a sack of coal on my back - no chest pain at all.
When it came to opening my front door the key was too heavy to lift up with one hand - I fell into the house and phoned the clinical measurements team who immediately called an Ambulance.

As I had signed the disclaimer before the test I never considered a case for compensation - I later found out that the trainee operator (under supervision) had allowed me to reach 183 bpm when she should have stopped the test at around 135 based on previous history - tbh I was just glad to be alive.

[Johnny4428]

Jesus Ted! Thank god after that your still here to tell the tale. Cant keep a good man down! 😯😂