{"id":3096,"date":"2010-07-17T15:42:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2010-07-17T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T15:42:09","slug":"get-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=3096","title":{"rendered":"Get A Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They never give up, do they? I saw this post on a forum:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since when has it been compulsory to give the pupils email address when filling in the booking form. I&#8217;ve never done until tonight. When did we recieve notification it was going to be compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>Another money saving excercise no doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A deliberate attempt to start another whinefest about the DSA. But if this &#8220;expert&#8221; had bothered to read the DSA information about this &#8211; circulated back in June &#8211; he wouldn&#8217;t have needed to try and show how clever he is and have it backfire on him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Practical test online booking and appointment confirmations <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From now, you\u2019ll need to provide a contact email address when you book or change your practical test online to receive your booking confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Booking confirmations for tests will no longer be posted out to you.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re an approved driving instructor (ADI) and are booking a test on behalf of your customer, you\u2019ll need to consider which email address you\u2019d like the confirmation to go to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No need to bring appointment confirmation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re no longer required to bring your appointment confirmation to the test centre on the day of your practical test.<\/p>\n<p>You must still bring the following items \u2013 if you don&#8217;t, the test may not go ahead and you may lose your fee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an appropriately insured and licensed vehicle, displaying L-plates (except for taxi and Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) part two tests), that is suitable for the purpose of the test<\/li>\n<li>the appropriate theory test pass certificate (or confirmation) if you are not exempt; for lorry or bus theory tests, you&#8217;ll need to bring both your multiple choice and hazard perception pass letters or your overall theory test pass certificate letter<\/li>\n<li>both parts of your photo card licence &#8211; if you don&#8217;t take both parts of your licence, your test will not take place and you&#8217;ll lose your fee<\/li>\n<li>if you have an old-style paper licence, you must take your signed driver licence and a valid passport &#8211; no other form of photographic identification will be accepted<\/li>\n<li>for both modules of the motorcycle test you must present your compulsory basic training certificate (CBT)<\/li>\n<li>for module two of the motorcycle test you must present your motorcycle module one test pass certificate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s no change to theory test bookings and theory test requirements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty clear, isn&#8217;t it? But I guess it must be wrong to save money (and trees) by not sending out letters for online bookings when there is a confirmation on screen, and now an\u00a0email confirmation, sent anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They never give up, do they? I saw this post on a forum: Since when has it been compulsory to give the pupils email address when filling in the booking form. I&#8217;ve never done until tonight. When did we recieve notification it was going to be compulsory. Another money saving excercise no doubt. A deliberate [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-dsa-related"],"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\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}