Winseer:
Has overtime pay @ time-and-a-half been offered for these extra hours expected of examiners btw?
…Can’t blame them for striking if they were expected to wear a doubled-workload for nowt extra eh?
The examiners are not being asked to work an extra hour. They are being asked to fit in an extra test in the same time. They have argued that this means dumbing down the test and making it shorter - hardly in keeping with their “safe driving for life” mantra. The tests are already very carefully timed at 57 mins each to include pre set-up and write up afterwards. Going to the loo is not factored into this role either. They have been told it is flexible working because you can choose to change the test times by 2 minutes to suit busier and quieter times
There probably wouldn’t be such an issue if it was being properly arranged into a longer day…
Are the Gov using the same management team as Hoyer? Be on 24hr swing shifts soon.
cav551:
57 minutes? it was an hour and a half and allocated at 2 hours when I took 2 HGV and a PSV.
Sorry for confusion - I based my answer on the car tests as this is the main problem with examiners. The lorry tests will obviously be shorter without the manoeuvre anyway.
rearaxle:
Let’s be honest, there is no better time to strike when you’re needed.
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And no better way either to undo all the public goodwill towards drivers which has been steadily accumulating.
Look!!, it’s everyman for him self and if that means getting a better deal when you are needed good luck, we’re all here to to try n get better perks .
Why do you think airport workers go on strike at their busiest times.
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People expect them to, like they do train drivers.
Leave us train drivers out of this !!!
GOOD on the examiners. There sticking together and I 100% back them !!!
fridger:
I thought the point was they are making tests shorter, by removing reverse and in couple exercise, so they could do more tests in the same time. Are this lot really striking because they have to do more tests rather than clock off early?!?
THIS!
They are NOT working longer hours; merely doing one more test in the SAME hours.
Snowflakes indeed.
More work But for the same money. Thats the truck drivers mentally.
truckerjimbo:
GOOD on the examiners. There sticking together and I 100% back them !!!
I understand the general principle of that but we are going through a national crisis with a huge backlog of driving tests for all classes of vehicle. It’s not unreasonable to ask examiners to understand this and help to clear the backlog simply by making slight changes to their working practices and not by having to work longer hours.
There are numerous people whose lives have been put on hold by the suspension of driving tests, while the examiners sat at home on virtually full pay. For the examiners and their union to show some understanding of this and empathy for their fellow man isn’t a big ask. That most people can relate to this goes a long way in explaining the decline in Trades Union membership.
Read today that there are 40.000 HGV applications sitting on desks at the DVLA - my renewal is one of them - it’s been two months now. Am using section 88 so am still working.
1st post as a newbie C+E driver. Passed in May, never understood why the government felt it was ok for taxi drivers to have 3 people in car during lockdown with up to 20 different hires per day and yet I couldn’t do training with one instructor and 1 test examiner for test.
If they used common sense they should have known what was going to happen as drivers retired or left the country.
