To consider flying to Scotland from London just for a driving test!!

[Wouldbedriver]

I’ve had 40 hours of driving lessons so far and passed the theory.

I don’t want to pay for any more lessons without a practical test in sight.

There are no tests available for any date here in the SE.

My instructor says booking one in a distant location, then swapping it for one that’s cancelled at an SE centre, doesn’t work any more. Because nobody’s cancelling a test around here as they’re so hard to get hold of. And bots are instantly hoovering up any new tests that may be released on a Monday morning.

So AIBU to think I should instead just fly up to Scotland and take a test up there? Obviously I wouldn’t know the roads but driving is driving, right? And there are plenty of tests available up there. Maybe make a holiday of it.

Or does my instructor need to be in the back of the car during the test?

Well done getting that test booked in OP. You can always look to move it forward once you are closer to being test ready. Do you think you could ask your family member to take you out to practice in between lessons? I would really recommend getting more hours under your belt and keeping the practice up.

Kudos to DC who are passing in an unfamiliar town, driving an unfamiliar hire car.

There are none local even with these apps running. We’ve not had a single thing pop up for a month in London. Yet plenty of people selling tests for £150 as they’ve booked up multiples through business accounts. It’s all a sham

We had Testi , still couldn’t find a nearer test at our centre in the SE .

I could have downloaded a million apps. There were no tests.

Really? There wasn’t a theory test in 87. I passed in 1993 and there wasn’t one then.

Easier to ignore blatant liars. Theory tests were introduced in 1997.

ETA just in case poster comes to say they meant 1997, 1st June 1997 specifically.

Correct. I passed in the lateish 1990s and the Theory Test was a fairly new thing then.