Driving Licence and Vehicle Categories
Penalty points (endorsements)
Since 8 June 2015 new penalty points (https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements) (endorsements) are only recorded electronically, and won’t be printed or written on either photocard licenses or paper driving licenses. From this date, if you commit an offence you’ll still have to pay any applicable fine and submit your licence to the court but the way the court deals with the paperwork has changed. For photocard licences, the court will retain the paper counterpart and only return the photocard to you. For paper licences, the court will return it to you but they won’t have written or printed the offence details on it. This means that since 8 June 2015 neither the photocard driving license nor the paper licence provides an accurate account of any driving endorsements you may have. Instead, this information is held on DVLA’s driver record, and can be viewed online (https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence), by phone or post (https://www.gov.uk/contact-the- dvla).
Confirming your driving record to an employer
If you drive for a living and you’re asked to provide evidence of your driving record (entitlements and/or penalty points), you can do this online for free by accessing our Share Driving Licence (https://www.gov.uk/view-driving-licence) service. The service should be used by both paper and photocard driving licence holders. You can generate a ‘check code’ to pass to the person or organisation that needs to view your driving licence details.
All Driver Assessors have the ability to check your driving licence - please ask them if you need any advice
Driving licence and Vehicle categories
B A motor vehicle having a maximum weight (MW) not exceeding 3.5 tonnes and not more than 8 seats (in addition to the driver’s seat) including: A vehicle combination where the trailer has a MW not exceeding 750 kg A trailer that is over 750 kg MW where the vehicle combination does not exceed 3.5 tonnes and the MW of the trailer does not exceed the unladen weight of the tractor vehicle
BE A combination of a motor vehicle and trailer where the tractor vehicle is in category B, but the combination does not fall within the category
D1 Motor vehicles with more than 8 seats but not more than 16 seats, including such a vehicle drawing a trailer not over 750kg MW
DIE A combination of a motor vehicle and trailer where: The tractor vehicle is in category D1 The MW of the trailer exceeds 750 kg but does not exceed the unladen weight of the tractor vehicle The MW of the combination does not exceed 12 tonnes
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