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VOSA and DSA to merge



Today, Roads Safety Minister Stephen Hammond announced that the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) and Driving Standards Agency (DSA), are to merge into a single agency which will bring together their testing and standards services.



Alastair Peoples, VOSA Chief Executive, will become Chief Executive for the two agencies and will oversee their strategic operations towards a full merger over the next year



Rosemary Thew, DSA Chief Executive, has also announced that she will be stepping down and leaving the Civil Service on 30 June 2013.



Commenting on the announcement, Alastair Peoples said:



“I welcome the opportunity of working with both agencies to bring together the vital road safety services we provide.



The aim of combining the two agencies is to remove duplication of functions, improve efficiency and give our customers a simpler framework of agencies in which to work with. I will now begin the process of working with staff and stakeholders to develop proposals to combine the work of VOSA and DSA.



We will continue to provide a quality service and the same level of professionalism while taking forward this work”.





No impact on our services

The changes won’t impact on:



· the services you use that are provided by VOSA and DSA, eg vehicle tests

· progress of other ongoing reform programmes



Better and more convenient services

The reforms are an outcome of the recent motoring services strategy consultation. They’re designed to offer motorists and businesses better and more convenient services, while making sure that road safety and first class customer service remain a top priority.

Just wait, one day soon you will have to Sit or rather Push for a wheelbarrow test to gain your License, then that wheelbarrow itself will also need to be Licensed, Insured, have Garden Emissions Duty added and then MOT'd, after about two years you'll also need a CPC to go along with your Wheelbarrow licence along with a current D4 medical in case you collapse pushing it on your allotment.

On the Plus side your Wheelbarrow GVW (Gross Vehicle Weight) will be reduced to comply with some EU directive or other and also the Wheelbarrow Tachograph Rules will mean that you can only Push it for so long over so many days....so at least your lot will become easier even if your allotment becomes unworkable due to your allotted pushing time being reduced.

Has the sun got to you today blood, or has SWMBO told you to mow the lawn???

He found out he needs a CRB check to go with his wheelbarrow licence, and it's going to cost him £££££££

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Its an enhansed one here so will need the barrow to carry the cash

It did and she has.....I'll be feeling cold shoulder for some time to come I fear

Got em all Gus, the Scottish CRB equivelant and the PVG..may as well get the CPC for my D1 license then I can give the Bairns a hurl in my wheelbarrow for cash and not for free providing they're on booster seats to keep their wee bums off the John Innes no3 and away from the Spear and Jackson garden fork.

Wow, that takes me back. My first job when I left school before starting my apprenticeship was making John Innes potting compost.

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