Der Backlog der Fahrtest „kann nicht viel schlechter werden“, da die durchschnittliche Wartezeit 22 Wochen erreicht
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/driving-test-backlog-cannot-get-much-worse-as-average-waiting-time-reaches-22-we/
Von tylerthe-theatre
11 Kommentare
I don’t understand what’s happening to this country.
We’ll just have idiot kids driving without a license.
If people WANT to follow the law why are we stopping them?
Because 6 months is the furthest ahead you can actually book, if they extended that they’d see that the backlog is actually quite a bit longer
Yet people on reddit will still insist retesting everyone every 10 years is a good idea.
I literally can’t book a test because I’m trying to book an automatic to manual conversion and it can only be done over the phone. By the time I get through to someone on a phone, all the spots have already been taken by people using the website. I’ve been calling every Monday at 6am for 4 months, I then try to call at random times every other day when I have time to call, but nothing. I’ve given up, and instead I’m putting money aside so I can upgrade to an automatic car. The amount of time I’ve wasted practicing driving manual, and trying to book the test is just depressing.
A lot of it is artificial. Developers have worked out how to bot the system and take all the slots and then sell you can app to get access to the slots.
Perhaps it’s time to take up cycling instead? Particularly in big cities like Manchester.
The bot problem has been known about publicly for years, and the “consultation” for a “plan” to address this only closed last week.
The gears of the public sector do indeed turn slowly.
„This featured a plan aimed at stopping bots mass-booking new slots so they can be resold on the black market for inflated prices.“
And they wonder how the situation arose in the first place 🙄
This will continue to be a problem until DVSA only allow personal applicants to make applications for a driving test. As they allow bots, these are booking all the test slots and then selling them off at a profit. This is profiteering, pure and simple.
People are going to start timing out their theory tests, and we’ll be seeing a backlog there too, if this carries on
Stop letting bots book tests and introduce a deposit that is refunded if you arrive to the appointment.