School threatens DSA with High Court writ
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• An Essex training school is threatening to issue a High Court writ for loss of earnings following the Driving Standards Agency's sudden axing of Saturday HGV testing — revealed exclusively in Comnierical Motor.
Roadtrain of Purfleet says it will lose up to £15,000 this year because of the DSA's decision to kill off the service it launched only eight months ago in a bid to clear a backlog of test candidates (CM 17-23 January).
Director Nick Smith says his company will take further action unless the DSA gives a satisfactory response to his request for compensation for loss of earnings by the end of this week.
Alternatively he would be satisfied with the reintroduction of Saturday testing or more weekday tests.
"People build their business on established practice," says Smith. "Saturday testing was established practice and it was taken away with only 15 working days' notice."
He says that he may have to sell the two trucks bought to handle the influx of work brought about by Saturday testing.
The DSA says that Roadtrain is not eligible for financial compensation, and refuses to discuss the possibility of a writ being issued.