[Countrymusicaddict]

Hi all so I have a question

My partner (live together) and I are both named drivers, but driving is too difficult for me so they do everything now, 9/10 I’m a passenger on all trips and when I’m not it’s just to shops or pharmacy.

Anyway my question is we regularly go to visit friends together and stay overnight as it’s about 100 mile drive, their local cheese is artisan and has my favourite, anytime we go I get the cheese. If one day we are planning to go and i have a flare and don’t feel like sitting in car but really want the cheese, can my partner still drive, stay overnight and buy me some cheese to bring home, because technically they are doing the drive to bring it back for me but I don’t know how it’s viewed.

Any advice please

 

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[kezo]

The car has to be used for your benefit and you don’t always have to be a passenger for it to be used to your benefit!

[Countrymusicaddict]

I get that but it’s why I’m confused 🤔 – is a 100 mile drive in which I’ll benefit but is done without me and results in an overnight stay allowed for my partner driving – or is when they say for my benefit it means a quick trip to the local shop and that is it – the language seems very ambiguous, I don’t want to do anything wrong / give my partner wrong advice but I really want some of the cheese 😁

[wmcforum]

Perhaps your friends could buy the cheese for you, wrap it up and pop it in the post.

[kezo]

Countrymusicaddict wrote:

I get that but it’s why I’m confused – is a 100 mile drive in which I’ll benefit but is done without me and results in an overnight stay allowed for my partner driving – or is when they say for my benefit it means a quick trip to the local shop and that is it – the language seems very ambiguous, I don’t want to do anything wrong / give my partner wrong advice but I really want some of the cheese

Believe me, I like north Staffordshire Oatcakes with north Staffs cheddar cheese grilled ontop and a slice of bacon, before rolling it up and yummy, its gone. My daughter aslso likes the said Oatcakes and it just happens to be so unfortunate, I moved to s.Wales. Once every month, I make the pilgrimage back home, not only to buy the said delicacy’s, but also too stay with my mum, who often buys clothes amongst other stuff, that are to the benefit of my daughter, along with said Oatcakes, if she gets a look in that is😋😜

 

 

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by kezo.

[Countrymusicaddict]

Ooh that sounds lovely the oatcake thing, ok thanks for helping to clear that up, I worried because if my wife stays overnight because it’s a long drive I didn’t want her getting in trouble, we usually do the drive together but if I stayed home one time due to pain I didn’t know if she could still go and bring the cheese back or if she would need to take public transport which isn’t cheap or quick 🙂 but if she keeps the receipt to show it’s for me that should be fine shouldn’t it

[comfortablynumb2]

kezo wrote:

The car has to be used for your benefit and you don’t always have to be a passenger for it to be used to your benefit!

A 100 mile road trip, overnight stay and collection of a block of mouldy cheese by a named driver without the claimant being present, might possibly be stretching the phrase “to your benefit” to breaking point.

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