points on you licence

[Jaynie]

Does it matter if you have 3 points on your licence, gained in the UK, for car rental and driving in Florida

[blott]

If you're licensed to drive a vehicle in the UK, then you're also licensed to do so in the US and the car rental companies take no notice of any points and just make sure that you have a valid and current licence.

If the points got on your licence via being arrested or convicted for a driving (or any other) offence then this affects your ability to use the visa waiver facility. If you have a search, you'll find some previous threads about this.

[Jaynie]

thanks for that, its just a bog standard 3 points due to speed camera, so thats ok

[Ruth]

I can confirm this as my husband has accumulated a few points and no one has ever queried them when we have rented cars in the US and the UK

[Ray&Sarah]

I can also confirm, that even with 3 points on my license I have never had a problem with renting a car in America, or Europe.

[george]

They never look at the car hire desk.

[Ana]

My Hubby also has points and we have never had a query.

[Nostromo]

I had 6 points ( a professional hazard, I'm afraid) when I went to New York in June 2002. We hired a car in Brooklyn and no one asked me anything.

[Harry and Jayne]

I have the new style 2 part UK licence and every time I have rented a car in Florida I only ever hand over the plastic part with the photo on and I have never been asked for the other part which is the bit with all your points etc on!!!

[tezz7628]

just to take this to the extreme

if you had points and didn't declare it and had an accident would the non declaration cause a problem [msnwink]