Quality controls don’t make sense

Those are the hoops we have to jump through I'm a better tester than my boss it's his garage but I run it I've never had points and I've scored better than him on our last 3 exams since I've worked for him 

It’s a means of keeping the AE in check as much as anything.

I have one other tester on my site but he actually has his own business (but not a test station) and I do his trade tests and, as he is a tester and to keep his hand in, we do all his tests together (the rest I do with my wife as assistant). Now sometimes he tests and I assist, sometimes the other way round so we have a pretty good feel for what we're each doing and we obviously discuss things as we go and it's all fine. But once a month I have to do a QC on him and then I get him to do one on me. It does seem a bit of a waste of time but, well, they're rules we have......

Fits in with what I've said about the new connected equipment rules. DVSA don't want small test stations. I can still see it being franchised to someone like Halfords (or even Tesco's!) further down the line.

But they probably have half the staff if you count training center's since you worked for the dark side eh ?