Driving testers RSA 2021

Hi all does anyone know how many faults you can have I think it's the same as ADI test only 4 allowed?

nobody really knows for sure.

Best of luck with it. Let us know how you get on.

I agree that it's a tough time with the not knowing and there are perhaps 2, 3 or even more weeks still to go but, as it's beyond our control, just have to try to keep the head down and busy with other stuff. Some candidates would have done the assessment/test back in December (7 or more weeks ago) and will also still be waiting on the outcome so there's certainly an element of mental endurance involved in getting through the process.

Done now anyway.. The 2 testers just left the car and said will be in contact in a couple of weeks.. To be fair they were grand..

I'd say I livened it up abit for them with afew of my mistakes anyways 🤣🤣

It's funny how they just jump out of the car at the end isn't it. I actually thought I had failed there and then but it just seems to be a thing they do.

I've honestly not thought about the job much at this stage. The first few weeks it was on my mind an awful lot but i'm still intrigued to see if i've passed.

For future campaigns maybe they should try to speed things up for candidates. 3-4 months is a bit much of a wait.

Absolutely.

If you were without a job you'd most certainly get an offer by any other organisation a lot quicker.

Never thought I'd be this long waiting for a simple yes or no.

Hoping to get good news because I don't think I could go through the process again…

Personally, i'd drop the driving test part, it's a bit ott and takes way to long to conduct. They provide training so it;s not really necessary to test people in that regard.

Where are you in the competition? How did your test go?

I dunno 🤷🏻‍♂️ I know that I've definitely been driven in cars with some people (with full licences) who I don't think would ever be capable of the job ... Even with any amount of training. These are people who you'd wonder how they got their licence in the first place. Not sure that there's any other good way to weed those people out in advance without some sort of practical driving test.

Continuous assessment I imagine would be the only way to improve the general driving standards on the roads. I used to be assessed every 3 years when I was driving forklifts.

There's certainly a good case to be made for that, especially with elderly drivers ... but given the waiting lists for learners at the moment, I didn't know where they'd fit in extra re-evaluations of already-qualified drivers 😄

However, I was more referring to there being a real need (imo) for some sort of practical driving test within the recruitment process. e.g. Don't want to recruit applicants using only theory test/interview, begin the training course(s) and then find that, say, 10% of recruits can barely drive themselves properly, let alone be capable of monitoring other people's driving.

While it is a pain in terms of adding time to the recruitment process, I alas just can't see a good way to complete same for this kind of job without at least something in that vein. Perhaps the assessment could be a little shorter and perhaps be carried out at more regional centres closer to applicants' homes to reduce the travel but I think that ditching it completely would result in a poorer pool of suitable recruits for the panel. This would lead to more disruption, delays and faffing about later on in having to replace the "undriveables" in the training course(s) with new people from the panel, completing their recruitment, and then getting them up to speed with the training so far (and then maybe having to do that again and again if some of those replacement hires also turn out to be poor drivers).

Am I right in saying results should be due next week?