How long have you had your Drivers License?

jujube said:
1963. A red letter day for me. I passed my written and driving test on the first try.

While waiting for my turn, I struck up a conversation with the girl sitting beside me and discovered that she was a second cousin I had never met. Because of a family falling-out many years ago, there was no communication between the branches.
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I was still in infant school then...:D
 
1969 and 16 ... on second try
First driving test, I hit the curb while trying to parallel park.
I hit the steering wheel with both hands and said, "Sh!t" ... the state trooper giving the driving portion of the test said, "You have failed" :ROFLMAO:

Interestingly, the second time and with a different state trooper, I wasn't even asked to perform a parallel parking movement.
 
Fifty seven years. At one time or another I have held every vehicle license class from AZ tractor trailer, BZ transit bus, CZ truck, DZ dump truck, class F ( 24 passenger bus or Ambulance ) . I have never been licensed to operate a motorcycle. Over 2 million miles driven with no accidents of any kind, and for ten years I was driving an Ambulance here in the largest city in Canada, in all types of weather and road conditions.

I was also licensed by the Province of Ontario as a driver examiner, and I was the inhouse driver examiner for the Metropolitan Toronto Department of Ambulance Services. Everyone who was hired between 1977 and 1987 was tested and passed or failed by me before they could drive any departmental vehicles . JIMB.
 
Beezer said:
(y) That's a real feat!
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I did have one situation where my Ambulance partner and I were parked on a side street, and man on a pedal bike came along and hit my outside mirror with his shoulder. He fell off the bike, and we ended taking him to the emerge at Western Hospital, with a fractured collar bone and a head injury. Our Department safety officer came to the hospital and interviewed both of us, and the bike rider, and wrote it up as a "no fault on the part of J Bunting " as our vehicle was parked and not moving.

Another time I was not driving when our Ambulance was struck broadside on the driver's side by a stolen Mustang, being driven by a drunk 16 year old kid. Our van was driven across an intersection, into the entrance to a Royal Bank branch. WE had to climb out through the rear doors, as both of the front doors were mangled. My partner Randy was found " not at fault " due to the other driver being drunk and driving a stolen car. JIMB
 
I've been driving now for 52 years, never had a speeding ticket and only last year got my first parking ticket. I was parked "front to kerb'
when it should have been "rear to kerb" I didn't see the sign as a tree branch was across the sign. I tried to plead my case but had to fork out $330.00, What a rip-off.
 
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