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rhapsody · 07-08-2008, 10:50

Hi all,

I just got the date for my test (5th September) but its in Dundalk. I requested Drogheda. Like various other posters here I tried ringing the RSA but to no avail, emailed them on Tuesday to their info address, no reply yet. The letter and website give directions for cancelling but not changing the test route.

Just wondering what people think I should do? Will it be a problem switching because Drogheda is SGS? Why would they have given my Dundalk instead of Drogheda when my address is south of Drog & nowhere near Dundalk! Anyway, replies gratefully received

Permabear · 07-08-2008, 16:18

You should keep trying to get the RSA on the phone. You will get through eventually if you are persistent.

SGS is a private Swiss company to whom the government has outsourced driving tests in an effort to clear a serious backlog. Many towns now have both RSA and SGS driving test centres, but you have no control over who tests you. It really seems to be the luck of the draw.

Wishbone Ash · 08-08-2008, 01:13

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Originally Posted by rhapsody

Will it be a problem switching because Drogheda is SGS?

Of course it will. You have no automatic entitlement to be tested by SGS regardless of your address. They are allocated a radom selection of RSA applications. You were not included in that random selection and, therefore you will have your test conducted by the RSA in Dundalk.

(Those who are selected to be tested by SGS have the option of deciding to be tested in an SGS test centre of their choice).

rhapsody · 08-08-2008, 11:29

Its not that I want to be tested by SGS over RSA, but I thought the RSA transferred tests to SGS centres based on the address of the applicant i.e. Dundalk is a good bit away from me (60 min-ish) and Drogheda is my closest test centre (10 min-ish) so logically I should be given Drogheda?

**Cabaal** · 08-08-2008, 12:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhapsody

Its not that I want to be tested by SGS over RSA, but I thought the RSA transferred tests to SGS centres based on the address of the applicant i.e. Dundalk is a good bit away from me (60 min-ish) and Drogheda is my closest test centre (10 min-ish) so logically I should be given Drogheda?

Nope thats nothing to do with where you live in location to the centre, its luck of the draw

rhapsody · 08-08-2008, 12:40

crapola. Now have to go get a bunch of lessons in Dundalk in the next month. dam you RSA.

Thanks all for the replies

rhapsody · 11-08-2008, 09:57

Just to let people know, I got a call this morning from the RSA (following my email last Tuesay) to say it would not be possible to alter my test centre. She said if I cancelled, I would be given another date in three months time in Dundalk. It was almost funny how unpleasant she was, and slightly outraged that I would request such a thing. I barely said a word on the phone (it was 8.30am & she had woken me) so I dont know why she was so annoyed over it. Maybe she's just sick of people like me expecting them to provide a service that SGS does.

Dundalk here I come!

07-08-2008, 10:50	#1
rhapsody Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 291 Adverts \| Friends	Changing test centre Hi all, I just got the date for my test (5th September) but its in Dundalk. I requested Drogheda. Like various other posters here I tried ringing the RSA but to no avail, emailed them on Tuesday to their info address, no reply yet. The letter and website give directions for cancelling but not changing the test route. Just wondering what people think I should do? Will it be a problem switching because Drogheda is SGS? Why would they have given my Dundalk instead of Drogheda when my address is south of Drog & nowhere near Dundalk! Anyway, replies gratefully received

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07-08-2008, 16:18	#2
Permabear Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 17,775 Adverts \| Friends	You should keep trying to get the RSA on the phone. You will get through eventually if you are persistent. SGS is a private Swiss company to whom the government has outsourced driving tests in an effort to clear a serious backlog. Many towns now have both RSA and SGS driving test centres, but you have no control over who tests you. It really seems to be the luck of the draw.

08-08-2008, 11:29	#4
rhapsody Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 291 Adverts \| Friends	Its not that I want to be tested by SGS over RSA, but I thought the RSA transferred tests to SGS centres based on the address of the applicant i.e. Dundalk is a good bit away from me (60 min-ish) and Drogheda is my closest test centre (10 min-ish) so logically I should be given Drogheda?

08-08-2008, 12:40	#6
rhapsody Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 291 Adverts \| Friends	crapola. Now have to go get a bunch of lessons in Dundalk in the next month. dam you RSA. Thanks all for the replies

11-08-2008, 09:57	#7
rhapsody Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 291 Adverts \| Friends	Just to let people know, I got a call this morning from the RSA (following my email last Tuesay) to say it would not be possible to alter my test centre. She said if I cancelled, I would be given another date in three months time in Dundalk. It was almost funny how unpleasant she was, and slightly outraged that I would request such a thing. I barely said a word on the phone (it was 8.30am & she had woken me) so I dont know why she was so annoyed over it. Maybe she's just sick of people like me expecting them to provide a service that SGS does. Dundalk here I come!