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[b][user=658]Wesley[/user] wrote: [/b][quote][b][user=2562]Vehicle Assessor[/user] wrote: [/b][quote]I would just love the opportunity to spend a day at a test station with a tester who completes this many tests in eight hours?

It would most certainly be educational to me:)
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If I test Eight Newish lets say “03/06″ Vehicles per Day, “The same as Yourself”, and find Minor Items on every Vehicle, eg;- wipers, bulbs, headlamp aim, Then, “The System”, Will Generate A seperate test log fail number for every Vehicle that “I” PRS!

Now Throughout My, One Test Per Hour, = 8 tests per day. “The System” Has Recorded 16!:shock:

I have queried this at my last VOSA refresher course “July 08” and All that they can Confirm is that “The System” records A seperate test log fail number.

There are  No Statistics on the System to Seperate PRS Tests, So VOSA have to,  “ASS U ME” that You have conducted the number of tests recorded, 16.:shock:

Maybye You Should Conduct Your Educational Questions In An Appropriate Direction and find out Why!:X

When Testers actually realise that this is an “Issue” that Will Generate more Visits, Then the Recording of Minor Items using PRS, Will become Extinct!:shock:  But By Default, Will Encorage more Visits for lack of “Headlamp Aim” Failures!:X

Seems that “We are somewhere between a “Rock and a Hard Place”!:X

As Above, please Direct Your Issues and Enquiries to VOSA, Then get back to Us with some Positive Result that might just, “Resolve” such Issues Not Rearing their Ugly Head to begin with!

Regards, Wes.;)    

 
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Sorry to upset you Wes, where you do seem to take things to heart relatively quickly, but I took the view the tester said he was “doing” up to 18 tests per day in eight hours, at an average of 25 – 30 minutes a test.

Now I never mentioned computerisation and the way the software functions, you see if the computer program generates more tests than are actually completed, then the tester doing up to 18 tests per day is actually on computer doing 36 tests per day if viewed from what you say.

Please try and not take things to heart so quickly and remember that we all do this for a living.

May i say on a last note that just because some testers may be testing 06 registration vehicles all day, this age vehicle does not change the test criteria where an average time to complete a full examination is still based on 55 minutes. Now I know and you know, and VOSA know that new vehicles don’t suffer the problems of older vehicles, and yes they know testers get round them quicker, but this is just plainly down to total reliance on the vehicle manufacturer building good quality vehicles, it does not change the time a tester takes to check each ball joint, or steering gaitors, or any other testable item or part of the routine, unless it is a Mercedes Smart Car, where changing the bulbs will more than make up for the time gained in testing it?