{"id":23828,"date":"2011-09-01T17:20:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T00:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12847"},"modified":"2016-09-17T17:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:54:26","slug":"albertas-clever-way-of-potentially-ruining-peoples-lives-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/albertas-clever-way-of-potentially-ruining-peoples-lives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta’s Clever Way of Potentially Ruining People’s Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I finally received my Alberta driver’s license. I’ve been driving with an interim one. There was a strange notation on it, GDL, and I got a bad feeling. I showed it to Jody who confirmed that I was given a ‘graduated’ driver’s license, not a full one. I found the information about that buried in their website. At no time did anyone at Lethbridge Vehicle Licensing and Registry<\/a>mention to me that I was trading my full Yukon license nor was there any information to this effect in the letter I got with the license.<\/p>\n

There are two main restrictions with this license. The first is fewer demerit points, which isn’t an issue. But the second is. It’s a zero alcohol tolerance policy. I’m probably not the only person in the universe who can drive safely after drinking a beer with dinner. Now that I know about this restriction, I can heed it, but imagine if I hadn’t noticed that I have a GDL license and was pulled over after having a beer. Boom. I lose my license for a month. Good luck getting insurance at renewal time!<\/p>\n

I can keep driving on my GDL indefinitely, but if I want to get the full license, something I have held without a ticket or at-fault accident since 1997 or 1998, will have to wait for two years, and will have to pay $75 for a road test. It’s another way for Alberta to keep squeezing blood out of turnips I guess.<\/p>\n

SHAME on the folks at Lethbridge Vehicle Licensing and Registry! They saw how many bloody hoops I had to jump through and should have given me a heads up. I will be sending them a link to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I finally received my Alberta driver’s license. I’ve been driving with an interim one. There was a strange notation on it, GDL, and I got a bad feeling. I showed it to Jody who confirmed that I was given a ‘graduated’ driver’s license, not a full one. I found the information about that buried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,936,1226,635,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-legalities","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}