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@whistles
DVLA: Yeah, my PIP assessor said that the DVLA hadn't been notified that I can't drive. True. However:
1. I don't have a license, so I can't drive anyway. (The assessor wrote that I have an American one. I did, when I lived there, *11.5 years ago*. When it expired I couldn't get another one, as I'm neither a US citizen nor a US resident, so I couldn't renew it.)
2. On the DVLA's website, it states the following:Prescription medicines
It’s illegal in England and Wales to drive with legal drugs in your body if it impairs your driving.
It’s an offence to drive if you have over the specified limits of certain drugs in your blood and you haven’t been prescribed them.
Talk to your doctor about whether you should drive if you’ve been prescribed any of the following drugs:
- amphetamine, eg dexamphetamine or selegiline
- clonazepam
- diazepam
- flunitrazepam
- lorazepam
- methadone
- morphine or opiate and opioid-based drugs, eg codeine, tramadol or fentanyl
- oxazepam
- temazepam
You can drive after taking these drugs if:
- you’ve been prescribed them and followed advice on how to take them by a healthcare professional
- they aren’t causing you to be unfit to drive even if you’re above the specified limits
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Ta-daaaa. The only reason I wouldn't be able to drive is because I'm on tramadol. Since they discombobulate me so much, I wouldn't feel safe driving while on them, and since I take tramadol all the time, I would never drive. Thus there's no reason for the DVLA to be told that I can't drive. These ar*eholes don't have a clue what they're supposed to be doing.
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Some people wouldn't know not to drive either though.
There was a case whereby a lady I think was found to be over the legal drugs limits on cough and cold and remedies! The police test for drugs these days as well if in an accident in some forces. I say some because the documentary showed that one. Would need to Google the newspaper whatsit.
I am on the notification list and I was still asked if I drove. I think it's just a standard robotic question they ask everyone.
We all got asked the same as we all filled in the same pip forms. The annoying thing is they are only interested in your functions of those set descriptors, however, they ask you things not on the list and decide if you should function with what is.
You can raise your arm to wash your hair- means you can fly that boeing 747.
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I might put my name down as an assessor because didn't someone say a trained monkey could do it.
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The level of skill required to be an assessor would be an insult to a trained monkey
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Well that’s a little stress lifted! Just had a letter from the DWP signing me of work, with 2 careers a day looking after me and unable to walk it would have looked a little silly
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Great news @cripps
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Cheers
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