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Got my medical next week so I can apply for a provisional HGV license. I wear glasses, and I know my corrected vision is fine. But they say: [i] the uncorrected visual acuity in each eye must be no less than 3/60 [/i]

What does this mean? It concerns me a little as I know my uncorrected eyesight wasn't good enough to get into the Police when I applied about 10 years ago.

Anyway of gauging my visual acuity at home before the medical?!


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 3:13 pm
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as a rough guide can you see a numberpate at 30 meters distance without correction?


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 7:38 pm
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Posted : 22/04/2010 7:44 pm
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If you can read the top line of the opticians board that's about 6 / 60 (so better than 3 / 60 )

Less than 3/60 and you can be registered legally blind


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 7:48 pm
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You'll be fine. Iirc you'll just do the standard eye test ie reading the letters on the wall, however epilepsy and diabietes are a big no no.


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 7:51 pm
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3/60 means that without glasses you can see at thereto feet what others can see at sixty feet.


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 7:57 pm
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I don't think I would be able to read any of the opticians board without glasses 🙂 I can't actually remember if they ever tested me with unaided vision recently...

But I'm sure that stuff I can read at 60 feet with glasses, I could read at 3 feet without...so thanks for that 🙂

Edit: You said 'thereto' I assumed that meant three, but if its thirty I might have a problem...


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 9:36 pm
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Yep, meant "three". Stupid T9. Sorry, I was in a taxi on the M6.


 
Posted : 22/04/2010 10:44 pm
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Sorry, I was in a taxi on the M6.

Driver's seat or in the back? 😉


 
Posted : 23/04/2010 2:53 am

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