{"id":8672,"date":"2015-06-02T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2015-07-14T07:51:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T06:51:29","slug":"end-of-driving-licence-paper-counterpart-and-hiring-a-car-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/02\/end-of-driving-licence-paper-counterpart-and-hiring-a-car-relax\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Driving Licence Paper Counterpart – updated. Still not needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 14 July:<\/strong>
\nOn 10 July the DVLA announced that the code will be valid for 21 days (not the previous 3 day period). BUT AS WE SAID IN THIS ARTICLE YOU ARE NEVER ASKED FOR THE PAPER COUNTERPART OR POINTS HISTORY WHEN ABROAD ANYWAY. <\/p>\n

On the 8 June 2015 the DVLA are getting rid of the paper counterpart of the UK Driving Licence – points and endorsements will be held electronically and these can now be viewed on the DVLA web site. You can generate a code to “share” your licence details with car hire companies etc so they can check for points and endorsements themselves.<\/p>\n

The service is free, available 24\/7 but codes are only valid for 72 hours and only 5 can be generated in any 24 hour period. <\/p>\n

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There seems to be a lot of unnecessary media coverage worrying about these changes, however since the introduction of the paper counterpart part of the licence some 17 years ago I have never been asked for it when hiring cars abroad – that includes Geneva, Lyon, Chamb\u00e9ry and Grenoble airports for hiring cars for trips to La Tania with a multitude of hire companies.<\/p>\n

Indeed hiring cars right across Europe, the U.S.A, South Africa and Asia – I don’t know of anyone being asked for the paper counterpart, maybe it’s just a UK thing. Has anybody been asked abroad before?<\/p>\n

In any case, the chances are there’s WiFi wherever you hire a car from (and almost certainly a 3G signal) and if it was required you can view your licence details on your phone \/ tablet \/ laptop as you hired the car surely? Just remember to have your National Insurance Number<\/strong>available.<\/p>\n

The link is at: www.gov.uk\/view-driving-licence<\/a> – you need your Driving Licence Number, NI Number and Post Code. <\/em><\/p>\n

Further information and links on airport car hire for La Tania<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 14 July: On 10 July the DVLA announced that the code will be valid for 21 days (not the previous 3 day period). BUT AS WE SAID IN THIS ARTICLE YOU ARE NEVER ASKED FOR THE PAPER COUNTERPART OR POINTS HISTORY WHEN ABROAD ANYWAY. On the 8 June 2015 the DVLA are getting rid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/drivinglicence.jpg?fit=371%2C264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8825,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}