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TTread an article in CM related to insulin-dependent drivers holding Cl licences and granting them grandfather rights. I would like to point out that there is no such campaign or grant for people like myself with sight in one eye.
I held an HGV 1 licence
from 1989-1992. After recovering from a serious road accident, I reapplied and was told grandfather rights only applied to people who had held a licence earlier, and the traffic office who issued the licence knew of the conditions of the applicant. I would like to be able to get a provisional licence to resit the test, to prove that although I only have sight in one eye I am still fit enough to drive.
Before I lost rny licence drove on long-distance work. We broke every rule in the book—overloading, drivers' hours, tachograph regs etc. There was no contract of employment, written or verbal, so I suppose that if we didn't do as asked we would have been sacked.
also tried in vain to get compensation—after the accident I was not declared fit for work for some 20 months— but was told that since! was only partly involved I had no case. So much for employer's liability The law states that any vehicle driven on the mad must be insured and any goods carried must be insured, but there is no law which states that the driver must or should be insured. I think the law should be changed to include the driver. John Steele, Lowshore,114acduff, Aberdeenshire