It has been donkey’s years since I passed my driving tests (Car/HGV/Motorbike/HGV Cat C+E in that order). My eldest son has his driving test on Tuesday. If he gets a pass can he insure my car that I am signing over to him (send the V5 off) straight away?
Nice one Lozzy, didn’t know whether we had to await some sort of acknowledgment from those (Lazy b*stards) down at DVLA.
He'll get a pass certificate off the examiner at the time, and thats proof until his licence comes back
FYI DVLA is taking ages with some stuff, wife's renewal was over 2 months - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/dvla-coronavirus-covid-19-update When I passed my bike test the examiner took my provisional and sent it away leaving me my pass certificate as proof. Looks like he will have 2 years of being able to just use the pass certificate - https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-your-full-driving-licence
Just remember that your son still only holds a provisional licence until his new full licence is received through the post (assuming he asked the examiner to send off his licence on his behalf) so he needs to make it clear to the insurers that whilst he has passed his test, the arrival of his full licence is pending. It makes no difference to the premium of cover level, but if not mentioned they may deem it a failure to declare in the unfortunate event that something happens between the policy being taken out and his licence arriving. But as said, once cover is confirmed, he will be insured to drive which can be the same day.
Good luck to him ,hope he gets the pass I took my HGV class 2 six years ago and it stressed me out , thought WTF am I doing this for at my age . Glad I did it now