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Have a look here - may help you
www.dvla.gov.uk/drivers/drvmbus.htm
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Adam, the way you seem to be breaking things at the moment, maybe a few tandems would be a better bet.
Seriously, you will be hiring it, or trying to, the company(s) you approach should have all the info you need at their fingertips.
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Well - it looks like Corsa-driver and smoke are right - thanks for that link Phil - crazily enough, I completely missed that page on the site.
mjm - I suggested the tandem idea but it went down like a lead something or other.
Thanks for the help guys - separate cars it is.
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Adam
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"separate cars it is"
I'm sure that with all the recent improvements in public transport the bus or train would be far easier, cheaper and show your appreciation of environmental issues. (And please NW!)
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Adski - I was also in the same situation and the information on the DVLA website is about as ambiguous as it gets. Until you're over 21 and have taken an additional test, then no, you can't drive one. She will also need to have held a licence for over 2 years.
Public transport - check flybe.com, you may well be able to fly to your destination for less than the train or the bus.
I can fly back from Uni for £40 return, considerably less than the train.
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I'm sure that with all the recent improvements in public transport the bus or train would be far easier, cheaper and show your appreciation of environmental issues. (And please NW!)
I dunno, the youth of today. ::shakes head in despair::
Standards are slipping here!
The traditional way of transporting students is a battered minibus. Nothing else is quite as effective at compressing them into a sufficiently small and uncomfortable space that tempers can fray properly.
Failing a minibus, it is traditionally regarded as acceptable to shove them all into the back of a Transit, when they can sit on each others rucksacks. (A pedant may suggest that this unsafe, which is true up to a point. But it ignores the fact that that students are plentiful, and the broken ones can be replaced cheaply after any mishaps). The van offers better snogging facilities than the seats of a minibus, and has the advantage of allowing the driver to lock them all inside when he reaches the destination.
However, while the minbus may (at a pinch) be new, only an old (and dirty) van is acceptable. (Don't ask me why, I don't make the rules, but I think it's something to do with the way that sitting on builder's rubble or broken car parts encourages moaning and griping).
If neither minibus nor van are available, I'm afraid that a pair of cars is desperately uncool. All that comfort is completely un-student-like, and is wholly unconducive to the tradition of drinking like fish whilst being gratuitously abusive to each other of a worn-out engine. It is dificult to exchange seats in a car once it's underway, which can seriously impede the important ritual of snogging somebody else's boyfriend in front of witnesses who will embarrass you later.
Planes are equally unacceptable, unless stolen, broken or at the very leat illicit and unairworthy. A definite no-no.
So that leaves train or bus as the only valid option. However, do remember the small-print of the discounted fare scheme for students, which forbids travel unless alcoholically-rowdy, unwashed and oversexed and unsure of the destination.
Hope this helps!
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