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LaudJohn
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StroppyChops wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:05 pm All good comments.

I've let my Australian driver's license lapse (annual medicals are a problem, even after handing in my truck classes) so I wonder if I could hire a car in Australia using my Cambodian license? :D
As far as I know you do not need a medical to drive trucks in OZ. I have a HC and would only need a medical if I was to drive a bus. I still get my licence classes renewed without medicals.

I have hired cars in the US and used my Cambodia licence as ID to check into hotel there in the past.

You should be able to hire a car with your Cambodia licence. My ex, went straight to a full OZ licence based on her Cambodian licence when she passed her driving test, so it was accepted by VIC Roads.
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LaudJohn wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:39 pm
StroppyChops wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:05 pm All good comments.

I've let my Australian driver's license lapse (annual medicals are a problem, even after handing in my truck classes) so I wonder if I could hire a car in Australia using my Cambodian license? :D
As far as I know you do not need a medical to drive trucks in OZ. I have a HC and would only need a medical if I was to drive a bus. I still get my licence classes renewed without medicals.
Unless you're diabetic.
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StroppyChops wrote:
LaudJohn wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 2:39 pm
StroppyChops wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:05 pm All good comments.

I've let my Australian driver's license lapse (annual medicals are a problem, even after handing in my truck classes) so I wonder if I could hire a car in Australia using my Cambodian license? :D
As far as I know you do not need a medical to drive trucks in OZ. I have a HC and would only need a medical if I was to drive a bus. I still get my licence classes renewed without medicals.
Unless you're diabetic.
I also need to regularly update motor reg with medicals since my 2nd (corneal) graft enabled me to get my license again.
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FYI;
posted on fb yesterday,an American;
Timotius Garner‎
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So I renewed my one year drivers license at the Aeon mall for 31,000. I was expecting $50
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I took my car license to V-Silk to obtain a Cambodian one having just renewed my big bike license 2 months ago - I kept being told it was delayed and the agent didnt know why. I just returned from Vietnam and VS gave me my license and money back and said the Ministry are not doing car licenses at present.

So I came home and called Lucky and was told .....
  • You can renew a Cambodian license if you have one
    A new one requires two trips to the Ministry but they are not sure that will be a success
    This seems to apply for all classes of license
    It only applies to Barang
    Maybe wait a few weeks and see what happens
The problem is I have just bought a car and paid for the insurance ---- I still have the receipt for the application which I suspect will get me thru normal porcine stops but what about an accident?

Any ideas? Heard of this before?

Cheers
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No decent insurance company (oxymoron?) will insure you before you submit your licence to them.
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mauser765 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:23 pm No decent insurance company (oxymoron?) will insure you before you submit your licence to them.
Third party with Forte - you insure the car not youself :wink: :roll: :Yahoo!: %)
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kgbagent wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:07 pm I took my car license to V-Silk to obtain a Cambodian one having just renewed my big bike license 2 months ago - I kept being told it was delayed and the agent didnt know why. I just returned from Vietnam and VS gave me my license and money back and said the Ministry are not doing car licenses at present.

So I came home and called Lucky and was told .....
  • You can renew a Cambodian license if you have one
    A new one requires two trips to the Ministry but they are not sure that will be a success
    This seems to apply for all classes of license
    It only applies to Barang
    Maybe wait a few weeks and see what happens
The problem is I have just bought a car and paid for the insurance ---- I still have the receipt for the application which I suspect will get me thru normal porcine stops but what about an accident?

Any ideas? Heard of this before?

Cheers
I got a call from Lucky Lucky the other day telling me they can't process my license, same reasons. Will report more when I do the next bit.
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so new regulations concerning drivers licenses ( for Barangs)
new regulations concerning long stayers with out wp's

anyone else seeing a pattern ?
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kgbagent wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:49 pm
mauser765 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:23 pm No decent insurance company (oxymoron?) will insure you before you submit your licence to them.
Third party with Forte - you insure the car not youself :wink: :roll: :Yahoo!: %)
For what?

3rd party? In which case it would have to be driven by someone with a licence. Maybe theft?
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