![]() I have applied twice at my local test centre which has rarely offered a wait of less than 12 weeks for a test and has been offering tests after a wait of 16 weeks. I sympathise with experienced driving instructors being turned for a position as an examiner. In the meantime, thank you for your patience. We aim to offer tests within 6 weeks by early next year. I hope that, once in post, these new examiners will help us continue to reduce waiting times. We have also offered a further 89 people posts and they are currently on the new entrant training course or waiting to attend it. Since April, 66 new examiners have started at test centres across Great Britain. If you haven’t yet, I’m sure you will soon. Some of you may have already seen some new faces around your local test centre. It means people now spend less time away from home and it’s helped us to attract wider range of applicants. the DVSA training academy at Cardington.We’ve broken the training down into chunks. We know that this has put some people off applying in the past, so we’ve changed how it works. Staying away from home for weeks at a time can be hard. This lasts from 5 to 7 weeks, and can be quite intense. It's important that we assess candidates thoroughly and give them the right training. Not everyone who applies is right for the job. But that's because finding the right people takes time. The recruitment process is somewhat lengthy. You can find out more about how it works in our guide to becoming a driving examiner. The applicants must get through the stages below before they become an examiner. That’s how many applied for the jobs we’ve advertised in the last 12 months. encouraging examiners to work additional hours in order to provide more tests.changing local working patterns to improve service.training more examiners in other test categories to meet local needs better.making sure driving examiners are working in the areas they’re needed the most.monitoring waiting times and future demands.In the meantime, our team that manages where driving examiners are working has been: So, we ran another campaign in March and are currently running another with a further one planned for October. As you can imagine however, this is a lengthy process and not always a successful one. So, we started a nationwide search for new driving examiners in October 2014. We also knew that an increasing number of our examiners were at or approaching retirement. That’s up 5.2% on the same period last year and demand is increasing.įind out more in the ‘ Driver and rider test and instructor statistics: January to March 2015’.įor the last couple of years demand has been fairly static, but late last year as part of our forecasting for our yearly business plan we predicted an increase in demand for driving tests. ![]() ![]() We carried out 407,000 car driving tests between January and March 2015. there has been a surge in people in their 20s taking tests, after leaving it longer to learn to drive.the economic recovery – more people are taking driving lessons again.There are 3 reasons why we’ve seen an increase in waiting times: I know how important it is to be able to get a driving test within a reasonable amount of time. ![]() I want to apologise for the inconvenience increased waiting times cause. We’re working hard to bring waiting times down in those areas. You may have noticed that waiting times for a driving test have gone up recently in some areas. ![]()
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