On 22/12/06 9:55, in article
458b9d64$0$21142$7a628cd7@news.club-internet.fr, "c mcgarry"
wrote:
> I often accompagny Americans around Normandy, sometimes in a hire car
> that they have hired and drive with their american driving licence. If
> the rental company accepts the licence I'm sure it's legal.
`
That is OK for visiting Americans, just as I use my French driver's
license in the USA. And you can drive for up to a year on your
US license even if living here. When I traded my California license
in in 1976 one could drive for two years, which we did since we actually
arrived earlier.
The big problem might be, even in under a year, getting insurance and
not having what the insurance company can claim to be a valid permit.
In the US, they were quite rigid about that so that buying a car,
insuring it and still driving on a European permit was not an easy
thing to accomplish. I can't remember how I handled that here.
I had bought a car o TT plates, and was able to extend their
validity for a 2nd year but then had to regularize the registration,
which required paying the TVA taxes which one does not do if one
buys in TT. But as an employee of the state, I had membership in an
insurance mutual and the rates were low and still are.
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