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Diabetes and driving HGVs and PCVs
If your diabetes is treated with diet and/or diet and tablets, you can hold a
licence to drive either a large good vehicle (LGV) or a passenger-carrying vehicle (PCV).
If your diabetes is insulin-treated, you will automatically lose the entitlement to drive vehicles within:
- the C1/C1+E class (including categories C1, C1E, D1, D1E, C, CE, D or DE)
This includes vehicles between 3.5 and 7.5 tonnes with a trailer, up to a combined weight of 8.25 tonnes.
However, you can apply to be assessed individually to drive these vehicles, in which you must meet a number of conditions:
- No episodes of hypoglycemia at the wheel within the last 12 months
- Receive an assessment from a diabetes consultant d at least once a year
- Regularly test your blood glucose levels, especially before and around times of driving
- Have stable blood sugar control on insulin for at least a month
- Have no other conditions that would invalidate an application for the license
- Sign a declaration to follow doctor’s decisions and report any significant changes in your condition to the DVLA