Driving licences in UK expire at age 70, and have to be renewed. The process should be quick and simple, but this being 2020 there are backlogs. DVLA are supposed to issue reminders 90 days before expiry, but this is not happening. People who leave it until near the expiry date can find that delays in issuing mean the old licence expires before their new one arrives. I'm hoping mine arrives soon. If the old photograph is of a no-longer-acceptable type, they may have to supply a new one (meeting passport rules) causing extra delay. The online renewal process, elaborate and complex though it is, does not at any point confirm what classes of vehicle the existing licence is valid for, nor confirm that the new licence will cover the same classes. You just have to hope DVLA does not mess up, and drop classes (such as motorbikes) off the licence. Check carefully when the new one arrives! The only good news is: renewal is free of charge. If you don't think any of this applies to you, I say just you wait.
Photography your old licence before you send it off. Although I know one person who did this and DVLA refused to accept it. He lost the motorcycle entitlement off his. Eventually managed to sort it but was a nightmare to sort out; his words.
Indeed. Fortunately if you apply online, you don't have to send the old one off. You can keep the old one until the new one arrives. Then compare them very carefully!
I have unanswered letters to DVLA going back weeks. The last one, a reminder the week before last, is also unanswered. My rehab coordinator was a nurse and he went back to work in hospital in that part of the World. He has only just got back to work at his old job. That part of South Wales had it quite bad with the covid thing. As DVLA is a tall, thin office block, I think that even now, many people will still be off work.
