Okay. Thought i'd share my story here. I dont expect anyone to help but anyone who does i shall be eternally grateful and will hapilly return the favour should they need a lift in the future.

I am a 42 confident and careful driver. I have also passed the Advanced Driving test as well as the Extended Test. This in theory makes me a more qualified driver than many motorists on the Road. However, driving safely doesnt seem to matter to the DVLA who care more about their pride than the lives of others.
3 years ago i was evicted from my home of over 13 years by a Vindictive Housing Officer who had personal greivances with me and abused the power they were entrusted with to have me evicted, despite having written confirmation from my doctor of my (at that time) suicidal condition (a long story).

Anyway a week after i was evicted, i was apparently sent a letter from the DVLA asking me to return a form by a certain date. Obviously, as i no longer lived here and living in my car, i did not get this letter and so didnt reply on time. The same week i was evicted, i also had a bereavement in the family and to cut a long story short, i was suffering a personal breakdown and was living in my car. Whilst daring to have the audacity to suffer mentally at my life being ripped out from under my feet, i failed to let the DVLA know that i was now living in my car and even though i idnt have an address to give them, inform them that i was now living in my car and if they have any information to send me, perhaps they could ask the police to keep an eye open for my registration and hand me my mail.

So, about 4 months later as i was stopped at a cafe getting a Coffee to warm up after a cold sleep in the car. The Police decided to check me out as i was in the car park. I saw no problem and was more than happy to comply with their wishes and showed them my driving license. I was gobsmacked when they told me it had been revoked. My car was impounded and i was turfed out onto the streets.

I contacted the DVLA to find out what the hell was going on as i was completely bewildered. They told me that they had revoked it because they had no reply from me regarding their letter. Okay, i could see their point if it was the only means of getting a hold of me. But then they informed me that because this happened just two weeks shy of me having passed my test a Full 2 years, i now had to resit my test. Oh yea, i could also feel free to go collect my car as long as someone else could drive it. Only catch was that the Car pound fees were now up to £250 and rising £50 each day. Since i was skint, that was the last i saw of my car and home with the only possessions i had left. Then just to make matters extra worse and put the boot in, they also charged me with driving whilst disqualified, even though they knew full well that i could not have possibly known it had been revoked.

I had to pay £200 fines for that and now have my Provisional License back. But i wont be able to Drive myself ahgain until i do my whole theory test and practical test again. Now this has led to a complete breakdown and even tried to do myself in at one point i have only recently made an almost recovery but it has left me bitter. Very bitter!

I know that this Bitterness is seriously affecting my health and i also know that the only way i can overcome this and put it behind me is to bite the bullet and cough up the money to pay for a test again. this really infuriates me becvause i have done nothing wrong as far as driving goes. The only thing i done wrong was failing to Put the DVLA first while i was having a Breakdown.(My doctor has already confirmed this but the DVLA are too proud to budge on this. They care more about people not jumping when they click their fingers than they do about the safety of the roads or anyone elses lives and what they do to them.

I'm not the sort of person who cant accept responsibility for their own mistakes. I have already endured 10 years off the road for a moment of Stupidity when i was much younger. This whole affair cost me a career a marriage not to mention £1000s just to get the license back and 10s of thousands in lost earnings over those years. But at least i was willing to accept my punishment as that was a mistake that I had made. This was NOT. The message they are telling people is that you will be punished if you dare to be Ill.

I know that this is eating me daily and by the look of things due to this COVID crap, any sort of appeal is likely to take at least 5 years, so the only waty of putting my mental health in a far safer place is to get my license back, get back to work and try to start forgetting about the whole bitter events. Now that i have my Provisional card back and able to get on with the rest at last, my midset has moved a little more to the positive side. But the Price of the Theory Test, Practical Test and the Hire of an Instructors car to do the test is enough to crush the spirit, but i am fighting it hard from letting it destroy me totally.

Once again, i dont expect any help here really as i know theres far worse off people than myself needing help. But any help will be very much appreciated and those who do can consider themselves on my VIP list should they ever need a lift anywhere.
Thanks!
Kev