I have a licensing question????

GWAYGWAY · Sunday at 6:20 PM

I am in a position of being able to drive my Hymer anymore soon and the only person in my family who is able to drive it is may stepson who was a fireman with a licence to drive Fire Tenders. However he has retired and said he was told he can no longer drive c vehicles without a medical . As this expired he think his licence went with it. I tried to explain the he does not lose his entitlement to drive, As the Hymer is a C1E vehicle I said he can still drive it, we do not know if a continued medical is required as he already had a C1E licence anyway. If a person had a C1E and then got a C with a medical. Does the C1E need a medical as well as the C licence. Until 70???
Th alternative is to drop the weight down to 3500kgs by removing the heavy extras and making it a B1E vehicle. Any brains out there that know????

colinm · Sunday at 8:06 PM

His licnce will have the expiry date of any categories listed on the back.

RoaminRog · Monday at 6:23 PM

Colin is right Graham, check the categories on the rear, and the expiry dates

maingate · Monday at 6:36 PM

It would depend on when your Stepson passed his driving test. If he has 'Grandfathers rights', ie passed his test pre 1997 then he will have the C1 until he is 70. only then is a medical required.

Drover · Tuesday at 9:48 AM

You can do a full check on the gov site

View or share your driving licence information

Find out what information DVLA holds about your driving licence or create a check code to share your driving record, for example to hire a car

www.gov.uk

r4dent · Tuesday at 9:57 AM

maingate said:
It would depend on when your Stepson passed his driving test. If he has 'Grandfathers rights', ie passed his test pre 1997 then he will have the C1 until he is 70. only then is a medical required.

Or he is diagnosed with something like diabeties,

Robmac · Tuesday at 1:15 PM

r4dent said:
Or he is diagnosed with something like diabeties,

Does that not depend on the type/treatment?

r4dent · Tuesday at 1:25 PM

Robmac said:
Does that not depend on the type/treatment?

Yes it does. No problem if diet or drug controlled (tell your insurance company), but when you start on the insulin you have to inform DVLA.

r4dent · Tuesday at 1:50 PM

Further details about diabeties and driving.

Diabetes and driving

You may need to tell DVLA if you have diabetes, depending on the treatment you're getting

www.gov.uk

GWAYGWAY · 2026-01-08T11:25:08+0000

What I was needing to know is his C1E governed by a medical for the C group. He is 56 and not affected by medical disability just the medical hast expired and does not know if he needs it or not now.

colinm · 2026-01-08T12:33:12+0000

As I posted above, on his license it tells him when any category expires.

maingate · 2026-01-08T12:37:35+0000

GWAYGWAY said:
What I was needing to know is his C1E governed by a medical for the C group. He is 56 and not affected by medical disability just the medical hast expired and does not know if he needs it or not now.

No. If he has the C1 then he will have C1E. If he had been over 70 years old then he would still have the C1E with the number 107 in row 12. This means the total weight (when towing a trailer) is restricted to 8,250 Kg instead of the usual 12,000 Kg. All this information is readily available online.

Drover · 2026-01-08T12:41:34+0000

The c1e is a full HGV licence for which a medical is required every 5 years from 45 to 65 then every year after that.
The 7.5 ton c1 licence is very different in that a medical is required every 3 years from 70.
If you put a photo up of the rear of the licence we could tell you more.
You never loose a licence class only the entitlement to use it...you can apply for the return of it at any time

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