THIRD of DVLA workers are STILL not at their desks

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I know a few people on here are having problems. I’ve had a few myself. In particular speaking to a human. It doesn’t even seem possible you just get directed to the website then they hang up.

Why is it when all the country is back at work Teachers, Retail workers, Airlines etc etc the DVLA are still working from home?

It’s a serious question. Do they just have a really strong union? Either way it’s infuriating. For example my logbook took I think 3 months to arrive.

In wales we`re still being told to work from home, the DVLA receiving a lot of hard copy papers by post, its not going to work very well.

Don’t think they have a particularly strong or decent union otherwise they would have started working from home before a huge percentage of their staff had been infected

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Funny really when most of companies were made to be COVID secure to stop risk of infection, and were supposed to be safe to be at work. So how are the DVSA offices any different to all the COVID secure business that had to carry on as normal and still are.

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There is now a danger that the DVLA will end up going on a rubber-stamp spree, and pass applications without checking them…

We’d then have an entire wave of future HGV drivers who have not actually taken the test, let alone passed any “Medical”, nor likely even achieved legal UK working status…

I await the first inevitable news reports of “Public being endangered by HGV drivers” - sending us straight back to ground zero for public popularity. :frowning:

Winseer:
There is now a danger that the DVLA will end up going on a rubber-stamp spree, and pass applications without checking them…

We’d then have an entire wave of future HGV drivers who have not actually taken the test, let alone passed any “Medical”, nor likely even achieved legal UK working status…

I await the first inevitable news reports of “Public being endangered by HGV drivers” - sending us straight back to ground zero for public popularity. :frowning:

You really need to go and live in a cave deep underground wearing a tin foil hat for your own sanity let alone everyone else’s.

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simcor:

Winseer:
There is now a danger that the DVLA will end up going on a rubber-stamp spree, and pass applications without checking them…

We’d then have an entire wave of future HGV drivers who have not actually taken the test, let alone passed any “Medical”, nor likely even achieved legal UK working status…

I await the first inevitable news reports of “Public being endangered by HGV drivers” - sending us straight back to ground zero for public popularity. :frowning:

You really need to go and live in a cave deep underground wearing a tin foil hat for your own sanity let alone everyone else’s.

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Let’s hear your arguments one way or the other then, rather than banging on about my thought processes…

The RHA are our enemies, the Government are our enemies right now, and only criminals and other illegal persons - seem to be getting any support from both institutions - and that’s going by what we’re allowed to see “as presented” in the news media…

The news this week has been swamped by the “Channel 31” story, which is to make us forget about the six-figures of them waved through by corrupt french officials, with the UK’s blessing who have promised to do something about it, but have not bothered.
DVLA “go slow” (back to topic…) wouldn’t have been just that - had we filled our institutions with officials that actually did the job, rather than became a annex asset of both the media and correupt government, alas… “Push the narrative, doesn’t matter how many UK taxpayers it hurts by the backdoor - we must be seen as soft liberals by the international community…”

WHY exactly hmm?

Keir Starmer - won’t be winning the next election, no matter how low Boris and his pod people government stoop now… They’ve been taken over by the Greens, whom less people voted for than UKIP in this country…

A full purge of establishment - is now required, if we’re to have any future at all outside of the Orwellian nightmare that currently looks like coming…

If DVLA are working from home guess I will be sitting at home longer unable to drive.

Old Wobbler:
If DVLA are working from home guess I will be sitting at home longer unable to drive.

Section 88? Or has your licence expired @ age 70, which makes you adding to that long queue of drivers that have retired this year, when they didn’t realize beforehand that this would happen?

I did my medical renewal in August, didn’t get my licence back until this month - section 88 through the middle period where I didn’t have C+E entitlement for the few weeks in between… S’ok if you are working out of one place, but I would imagine it would have been a bit more difficult if I’d been working at “Multi Client” yards… My blue card is valid until 2024, and you need to be carrying that with you at all times anyways, but it makes a great substitute #entitlements licence#, when it comes down to it. :slight_smile:

adam277:
Why is it when all the country is back at work Teachers, Retail workers, Airlines etc etc the DVLA are still working from home?

It’s a serious question. Do they just have a really strong union? Either way it’s infuriating. For example my logbook took I think 3 months to arrive.

I’m not trying to protect the DVLA but in my line of work we have been told that, unless required in the office, we are encouraged to work from home.

The majority of folk on here can’t WFH, I don’t think remote control trucks have been brought in yet but those that work with/on IT systems can.

I’m guessing that when an application arrives in Swansea it is scanned into the system and then IT takes over.

Why the rush to get back into the office? I gain over 8 hours a week by NOT travelling to the office.

To my great surprise,just had my 65+ renewal returned in 17 days :open_mouth:

DadsRetired:
Why the rush to get back into the office? I gain over 8 hours a week by NOT travelling to the office.

That’s probably what motivates DVLA staff to work from home rather than any genuine fear of the virus. But the thing is that DVLA staff are not carrying out the function of their organisation sufficiently efficiently to be allowed to carry on doing this, and their behaviour is adversely affecting hundreds of thousands of people who need driving licences, including particularly those who depend on one for a living.

It may be contentious to say it, but people in South Wales have a very poor work ethic. Driver and vehicle licencing should, in my opinion, be carried out on a national basis so that English and Scots drivers are dealt with by offices in England and Scotland, leaving Swansea to deal with Welsh licence holders only.

Its a bit contentious yes Harry, how many of these south wales types have you actually met? Or did they just give you that impression?

JeffA:
Its a bit contentious yes Harry, how many of these south wales types have you actually met? Or did they just give you that impression?

I can only speak of my Family in South Wales. But from my experience it is true lol.

What about those big-hitter, maingate-ripper south wales giants? They could pull the pit down legend has it. Richard Burton was from south wales, cliff morgan…what do you want? Blood?

Harry Monk:

DadsRetired:
Why the rush to get back into the office? I gain over 8 hours a week by NOT travelling to the office.

That’s probably what motivates DVLA staff to work from home rather than any genuine fear of the virus. But the thing is that DVLA staff are not carrying out the function of their organisation sufficiently efficiently to be allowed to carry on doing this, and their behaviour is adversely affecting hundreds of thousands of people who need driving licences, including particularly those who depend on one for a living.

It may be contentious to say it, but people in South Wales have a very poor work ethic. Driver and vehicle licencing should, in my opinion, be carried out on a national basis so that English and Scots drivers are dealt with by offices in England and Scotland, leaving Swansea to deal with Welsh licence holders only.

agree one hundred percent dvla is not fit for purpose it needs disbanding and regional offices set up they are a waste of space

JeffA:
Its a bit contentious yes Harry, how many of these south wales types have you actually met? Or did they just give you that impression?

Well, I’ve been loading out of South Wales since the days when there were coal mines and steelworks. And these are a bit of a clue here, DVLA was set up as a sop by Mrs Thatcher in exchange for closing down industry. However, whereas it used to be the menfolk who mined coal and made steel, it is their wives who largely do the office-based work at DVLA while the menfolk stay at home watching daytime TV and taking heroin.

There’s bound to be resentment there and this, coupled with the generally bolshie Socialist attitude and innate anti-English racism of the average Welsh person is only ever destined to lead to problems for many of their “customers”.

My top tip when you use those robot chat systems for companies such as banks or whatever is to over ride the robot and it’s round robin questions of getting nowhere is in the first instance submit ; Speak to an advisor or agent and keep repeating that request until a human is on a live chat .
You can always tell they are working from home as the background noise is not a call centre as you hear them tap away on their laptops.

Sky Captain:
My top tip when you use those robot chat systems for companies such as banks or whatever is to over ride the robot and it’s round robin questions of getting nowhere is in the first instance submit ; Speak to an advisor or agent and keep repeating that request until a human is on a live chat .
You can always tell they are working from home as the background noise is not a call centre as you hear them tap away on their laptops.

I don’t know if this still works but it used to be best if faced with “Press 1 for Service, press 2 for appointments” etc to not press anything and eventually the system would think that you were calling on a rotary dial phone and connect you to a human.

There are various “secret” phone numbers and email addresses that you can use to get a fast-track to DVLA which you can find if you search online.

Mr Monk, I too have some direct land line numbers which I dialled to be told by a human how did I get the number, she then says go online to make enquiries.