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Originally Posted by Soundguy
I think IDP's are rather useless, I had one for 12 months but no-one was interested in it so I never renewed. The other day I was in a car rental office here and some German tourists were trying to rent a car and presented an IDP, apparently they had been advised that this is what was needed to drive in Australia. The rental company refused to accept it and insisted on seeing the German drivers license. They explained that if his German licence had been cancelled the IDP would not have been so they don't consider it a valid form of licence.
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Within the (Australian) IDP it does state that you are advised to carry your Australian licence. My understanding is that it is more of a certificate to say that your licence is real as there are many different licences throughout the world. If I were a cop I'd have no idea if the Bulgarian/Chilian etc licences were fakes or the real thing. So I presume as simply a certificate of authenticity most companies would actually want to see what is authentic.
I get one if I think I'm going to be getting a car, never been asked for it.
Mal.