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G/f has to travel to Glasgow, she normally flies in and hires a car from AVIS. Trouble is this time, she sent her license off for renewal (10 year renewal jobby, not anything medical or points wise) without thinking about the need to hire a car next week...
Is there anyway round this? Anyone she could get AVIS to ring to prove she is license to drive? She does have a photocopy but obviously on it's own, this is no good.
Done this in the past with Enterprise, think they charged me 5 quid to ring the DVLA and check my license.
<mental note> F'ck - need to get my 10 year renewal off ASAP </mental note>
Aye, so long as the license holder is present they can call the DVLA.
The DVLA will need to ask her some security questions to confirm that she is who she says she is and bobs your uncle.
Only caveat is that the DVLA office needs to be open for you to speak to them, I've had drivers on my hire account caught out when collecting cars after hours, on bank holidays, etc.
oh, which dept did they have to ring?
Bugger, if it's possible my "what scottish trail centre?" thread on the main forum might be redundant
aha.. yep it is possible just need to confirm the AVIS office are willing to ring.
for reference for anyone else... you need to phone DVLA and pre-book the hire car companies enquiry.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/contactus/drivers_enquiries.aspx
oh and the g/f cannot believe the depth of info this site can provide, she normally only see's the time I waste on here...
- does she know about the mandatory posting of photos for anyone using our services ?
Its the hire co that does the ringing, not you. The DVLA will just require the driver to be in the branch as the DVLA will want to ask the driver some questions directly (they won't want the questions asked via the hire co staff as its a data protection thing) that simply confirm you are who you say you are - mothers maiden name, DOB etc. Then you just hand the phone back to the hire co staff and they take it from there.
If you think you'll be picking up out of hours it should be possible to do the license checking thing at another branch in advance, depending on how the hire co's system is set up.
SP - I would, but she'd kill me..
SA - I phoned, you can pre-book the hire car compaines call too, as well as doing it the way you describe.