vosa site visit

It's normally within 6 months for the first visit, but if your VE's workload is anything like mine he could be behind schedule. I'm still catching up on visits due in Feb & March due to other work being given priority.

Theres nothing like a couple of fatal truck crashes and a tractor losing a wheel and complete front hub assembly in a busy street & crashing into a house for creating a mass of paperwork & slowing down the site visits

:-)

as an aside i dont suppose the vosa truck guys who plated em would be subject to any sort of sanction would they?have never heard of one getting done and assuming we are the same species they must make mistakes the same as we(and i)do......

sounds like the gene pool is getting just the whiff of chlorine required.losing lemmings like that does nobody else any harm at all(assuming a practical score of arctics 2,muppets nil).we can only hope that none of em got the chance to reproduce pre mortem.but on a serious note my question stands,have any vosa examiners ever been done for appeals on hgv/goods/car vehicle testing?as i mentioned we are all the same species,i am sh1t hot but i still make mistakes so by extension so must they.have heard of plenty of us private sector bods getting tugged(me included) but never any of the guys at the local hgv yard.or am i becoming too cynical to live....

I heard a rumour about ALL the testing staff at a hgvts being " retired" over allegations about "favours"
I don't know how true it is thought

I've not heard anything about that Ivor, but then I don't get to talk to the guys on the testing side very often.

To answer a point made by castrolrob earlier.

The guys in GVTS get a minimum of one QC per month by a VE, plus additional checks by dedicated QA officers which can mean an additional 4 - 6 checks per year. The VE's also get checked by QA officers as do enforcement VE's. If staff dont come up to scratch they can be marked down on their annual report which may lead to refresher training with additional QC checks etc.

My way is a metaphorical kick on the shins behind closed doors, followed by a reminder that I have a good memory. Do the same again & points may follow. It seems to work. Written warnings are a last resort in my book.

I know someone who would argue that point David..........if he could, but he can't.