Poor Guy

im off to italy tomorrow and want to drive the hire car.


is both parts of the license required?

cant find the feckin paper part!

WRX Wannabe

Dont know about Italy M8

But if you have your passport with you i am sure this will be fine along with a photo card licence

imlach

In the Hertz in Florence last year, they looked at both parts, but then I had both parts with me.

List of things you can never find the night before your holiday :

1) Passport
2) Driving licence
3) Plane tickets

Make sure you get them all out tonight!

Poor Guy

everything else is sorted!

Its just this useless oversized pointless piece of crap that i cant fit in my wallet i cant find.

Who thought of having 2 seperate parts?! dumbass.

mart360

For the uk you must produce both parts,,

this is so the hirer can see what risk he is letting loose with the vehicle..

on the continant its a different matter..

when i hire in LUX they only want the plastic bit...

your points only apply in the uk..

however by law you should keep the two bits together..


Mart

if you get stuck take the number of the dvla,,

they can fax the paper part over in a push.. thats what they told me

M

Poor Guy

Ive just looked on the Hertz website. It doesnt tell you on the order form you have to be half dead before you can drive your dads rent a car. 28?! My arthritis wont let me drive then damn it!


what can you rent at 18 in Italy? youve got to be 23 (!!!!!) to rent their smallest vehicle!

imlach

Have you not booked a car yet? Are you just hoping to turn up at a car rental place and get something???

If so, oops.

Anyway, it's much cheaper to book it in advance in the UK....

imlach

I think if you're renting from a blue-chip rental company (Europcar, Hertz, etc), you'll struggle to get ANYTHING at 18 years old. They usually require you to have held a full driving licence for 1 year too.

talizman

iTrader: (1)

I'd have thought that you'd need to produce the counterpart (paper bit) as this is the part that proves you have a current licence.

If you tot up 12 points and are subsequently banned, it is ONLY your counterpart that reflects this. Your photocard remains unchanged, and is effectively just another form of photo ID.

Certainly at work, when a driver produces his D.L., we need to see the counterpart, as this is the part that tells us if he is licenced/legal. The photocard doesn't prove squat!

However, as suggested above, DVLA can fax the hire company details of your entitlements and endorsements for the purposes of hire, but I'm not sure if this will work with foreign hirers....

Diesel

I hired a Bimmer 5 series diesel to go Rome to Tuscany recently - only showed the plastic bit & passport. [More BA miles via Avis than the flight!] Great fun the torquey RWD on the twisty Tuscan roads

Miles

After renting here (Europcar at Heathrow) and in the US (Avis at Newark, Avis at Houston International), neither were interested in the paper part. The only thing they said was "We don't need that, you'll need it if you stopped by the police".