
Every Monday morning at 6AM, my wife and I wake up, bleary-eyed, laptops ready, phones charged, game faces on. We’re not chasing concert tickets or flight deals - we’re hunting for something far more mundane yet impossibly elusive - a driving test slot.
Like thousands of learner drivers in London, we are caught in a bureaucratic black hole. Despite our weekly efforts to book a test through the DVSA’s official portal, we’re routinely met with a digital wall of despair.