{"id":11724,"date":"2013-03-20T23:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2013-03-20T23:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:24:27","slug":"dsa-phone-service-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11724","title":{"rendered":"DSA Phone Service Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An  email alert from the DSA\u00a0says that from 2 April 2013, phone lines for booking tests will only be <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;float: left; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline;\" title=\"Computer Mouse\" alt=\"Computer Mouse\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/online_mouse.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" align=\"left\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>available between 8am and 12pm (instead of the current 8am until 4pm). This is in line with the falling numbers of people booking via telephone.<\/p>\n<p>Booking online is by far the easiest way. You can book your <a title=\"Book your theory test online\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/book-a-driving-theory-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> theory test<\/a>\u00a0and <a title=\"Book your practical test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/book-practical-driving-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> practical test<\/a>\u00a0on the DSA\u2019s site at <a title=\"The GOV.UK site\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> GOV.UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are still a bunch of radical ADIs who oppose this on the grounds that their \u201colder\u201d pupils might not have access to, or be familiar with, the internet. Quite frankly, those people are likely to have issues with <strong>any<\/strong> booking system.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve come a long way since Victorian times. It\u2019s a shame that some people still want to stay firmly embedded in the past, though. The majority of people can easily book via the internet. Those who can\u2019t will be able to use their ADIs to book it for them. There isn\u2019t a problem unless you look for one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email alert from the DSA\u00a0says that from 2 April 2013, phone lines for booking tests will only be available between 8am and 12pm (instead of the current 8am until 4pm). This is in line with the falling numbers of people booking via telephone. Booking online is by far the easiest way. You can book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,81,85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}