Practical Driving Test. No dates available

Lizboo

Unable to book a practical driving test. There are no available dates on at government test centres 

tacpot12

All you can do is keep looking until new dates or a cancellation become available.

jackieblack

Lizboo said:

Unable to book a practical driving test. There are no available dates on at government test centres 

Yep, you and thousands of others in the same position.
As the above poster said, all you can do is keep looking until new dates or a cancellation become available.

Clive_Woody

Probably something to do with this pandemic thing.

Lizboo

Thank you all for your replies.

John_Howarth21

Driving Test are very limited at the moment because of the pandemic all the people who previously had driving tests booked when COVID-19 hit, they would have been re-booked when they opened again and now with other people learning and wanting to take their test on top of that there is a back log in people trying to book in for their test. You just need to keep checking in case their is a cancellation or a slot becomes free at any point. 

jimjames

Lizboo said:

Unable to book a practical driving test. There are no available dates on at government test centres 

How many centres have you tried? You can go to ones outside your area but it may mean unfamiliar roads

BOWFER

There's a VERY good app you can buy that automatically looks for and books cancellations for you.
https://www.driving-test-cancellations-4all.co.uk/
it's worth every penny, it got our daughter a cancellation for her first attempt really quickly.
Then when she failed her first attempt, it got her a second date really quickly too.
Literally saved months.

GrumpyDil

Seconded about checking. A friend's son managed to get a short notice test booked about a week ago. Think it's a mixture of luck and possibly having his own car to do the test in. 

sheramber

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-letter-from-dvsa-chief-executive-to-driver-and-rider-trainers-about-restart-and-recovery-of-services/letter-from-dvsa-chief-executive-to-approved-driving-instructors-about-restart-and-recovery-of-services
25 March 2021

There are currently 420,000 car tests in the backlog and the national average waiting time for a driving test is 17 weeks.

We know this will pose challenges for everyone in the coming weeks.

We’ll do all we can to reduce the backlog safely and as quickly as possible to help the driver training industry recover. We plan to do this by testing as many people as we can, as soon as we can.

BOWFER

The 'excuses' are all very well, but the cancellations are out there and the app I've recommended will find them for you automatically.