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Driving with Diabetes

daisymj14

Well-Known Member
Messages
52
Location
West Midlands
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi everyone,

Does anyone have a company car through work? Just looking for peoples experiences with work if they have one. I can't find much guidance online apart from the restrictions with HGV licenses etc.
 
Hi,

You know what...?! I've done a fair bit of driving through work. (Hire vans/company fleet trucks & vans?) they haven't batted an eyelid at the diabetes..

I'll tag in @urbanracer he may well dispel your "unfounded worry".. Enjoy that new car smell! (Though my experience smelled more of SH17.) lol
 
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The recommended action for T1 is available on this site. How could you have missed it. Don't drive if you are hypo, for your own sake, and others. But do look it up, it's well worth reading. Best of luck.
 
MikePea said:
The recommended action for T1 is available on this site. How could you have missed it. Don't drive if you are hypo, for your own sake, and others. But do look it up, it's well worth reading. Best of luck.
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The OP may not have "missed it"...I know I haven't when renewing a licence as an "insulin dependant" one signs a legally binding document regarding testing to drive & the "five to drive rule".. It emphatically enforces it!!
None of us are "Bruce Wayne" we're trying to ruddy work!
 
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MikePea said:
The recommended action for T1 is available on this site. How could you have missed it. Don't drive if you are hypo, for your own sake, and others. But do look it up, it's well worth reading. Best of luck.
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Just to add; stick wrong end of, may you have grasped... As Yoda would say! He's a clever guy considering he had another guys hand up his **** for most of the movie!
 
By the way... My wife had two company cars.. She worked for a software company.) No issue with me on the insurance either..
 
I have a company car. The only "problem" I have had is that when the company's insurers do their routine driving license checks, DVLA won't give out any information because my license is administered by the medical section who have much stricter confidentiality rules. So I sometimes have to jump through some hoops to convince the insurers that I really do have a driving license!
 
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won't give out any information because my license is administered by the medical section who have much stricter confidentiality rules.
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Is this the medical section of the company? Sounds strange to me....

I drive work vans just as any other driver would....

Once the license has been issued by the DVLA, thats it, your the same as everyone else...
 
novorapidboi26 said:
Is this the medical section of the company? Sounds strange to me....

I drive work vans just as any other driver would....

Once the license has been issued by the DVLA, thats it, your the same as everyone else...
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Yes indeed.. I've had to produce my licence to an employer & certain checks are made regarding endorsements & outstanding associated legal stuff. & that's it.!
 
I had mine recently checked online, you provide your boss with a code which lets them see all the relevant info....

points basically...lol...

my point is there should be no further medical queries after that of the DVLAs own checks....
 
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