{"id":18620,"date":"2016-12-01T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18620"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:11:48","slug":"driving-tests-and-bad-weather-from-dvsa-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18620","title":{"rendered":"Driving Tests and Bad Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was published in 2015, but I’ve started getting hits this year, and DVSA has sent out the first 2016 reminder<\/a>, so it\u2019s worth an update.<\/p>\n

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DVSA has posted a new blog entry [original article from 2015] concerning bad weather and driving tests<\/a>. As we know, apart from being rocket scientists, doctors, psychiatrists, life coaches, political raconteurs, with most having been refused entry into Mensa for being too intelligent, the average driving instructor is also a highly skilled meteorologist.\"Snow<\/p>\n

As DVSA says, they have a duty of care. However, what they don\u2019t say is that tests are pretty much only ever cancelled when it is icy or particularly foggy. I don\u2019t blame them one bit, since the majority of test candidates will not have driven in fog or snow\/ice before (many will have cancelled lessons for just that reason in the past, or their instructor will have) and doing it for the first time on their tests is a pretty risky operation for anyone within a 2 mile radius of them.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t understand why instructors get so worked up about bad weather cancellations. Fair enough, it\u2019s lost income (well, for most it is \u2013 some still charge their pupils), but it isn\u2019t as if the well-run driving school is going to have a turnover based totally on income from driving tests. It\u2019s more like a maximum of two or three a week.<\/p>\n

My own advice is:<\/p>\n