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Originally Posted by uk_vette
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Im'e with Redboots on this one.
They, the poilce will want to see your licence if you are stopped.
Any thing else, will not count.
I wouldn't risk it, as much as you want to go, it could end in tears.
I am not even sure a scanned copy would be sufficient ?
'vette
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What about a situation where your licence was physically lost or stolen during your travels?
Would you stop travelling until a replacement licence was issued from your home country?. Here in Australia you have to reapply in person to obtain a replacement - does that mean I should fly home to get another one then fly back to whichever country I was in?
What if this happened to me in 2008 when I was in Russia? It takes one month to obtain a Russian visa - does that mean I leave my motorcycle in Russia for a month whilst I obtain another visa in Australia? Would the Russian authorities let me leave the country without also exporting the bike?. ....
... and so on, and so on.
I think it's fair to say that having a hard copy of your documents is sufficient to get you by and if I were jamesallen I would be heading off on my planned start day and having some one in the UK emailing a scanned copy of the licence once it is received and then forwarding the original of the licence to an address in a country where I plan to be on an agreed date.
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