- PDA bookings released for Joondalup Driver
Assessment Centre
- WA's dedicated learner driver centre open from
today
- Additional PDAs also available at four metro
centres over summer
- New centre will add at least 10,000 new PDAs
each year
The
Cook Government has opened the Joondalup Driver Assessment Centre today to
cater solely as a one stop shop for customers on the learner driver journey.
The opening of the
dedicated centre will create thousands of new practical driving assessment (PDA)
slots each year.
The Department of Transport (DoT) has begun
releasing bookings for practical driver assessments at Joondalup and will
release hundreds more over the coming weeks as part of its daily PDA release.
DoT has
spent the past six months creating the dedicated learner driver centre at its
Boas Avenue site in Joondalup.
The driver
assessment centre has been designed to meet the demand for practical driving
assessments in the metro area, which in recent years has been unprecedented.
At
Joondalup, DoT customers will have access to services to assist them on the
learner driver journey and more, including:
- Practical driving assessments or PDAs;
- Computerised theory and hazard perception tests;
- Learner's permit and WA photo card applications; and
- Interstate and overseas driver's licence
transfers.
Practical driving assessment
candidates are now able to book a C-class PDA at the new Joondalup Driver
Assessment Centre.
The Joondalup Driver Assessment
Centre will be open six days a week, Monday to Saturday 7.15am to 5.30pm with an
initial 10 driver assessors ready to conduct 38 C-class PDAs daily.
Further recruitment for driver
assessors will continue and PDA extended to include heavy vehicle and
motorcycle classes in the new year.
An additional ten customer
service staff have also come on board to assist customers when applying for
their learner's permit or WA Photocard, sitting their theory and hazard
perception tests, and to issue provisional licences when a PDA is successful.
DoT will also offer additional
weekend PDAs at our Driver and Vehicle Services centres in Midland, Mirrabooka,
Rockingham and Kelmscott in December and January to further ease pressure on
the booking system.
PDA bookings can be made online
via the candidates DoTDirect
account.
Visit the Transport
WA website for more information about the services available at the Joondalup
Driver Assessment Centre.
Comments attributed to Transport Minister Rita Saffioti:
"We acknowledge there has
been unprecedented demand for PDA bookings and the opening of the dedicated
Joondalup Driver Assessment Centre will help to alleviate some of that by
adding thousands of new practical driving assessments each year.
"Assessments can be
booked from today and we expect availability to continue growing as we recruit
more assessors into the system.
"The decision to open a
dedicated driver assessment centre is one of a number measures our Government
has put in place to enable fair access to PDA bookings, including switching off
the function that allowed assessors to swap bookings and implementing improved
systems to crack down on the use of bots."
Comments attributed to Minister Assisting the Transport Minister David
Michael:
"At Joondalup, DoT's
northern suburbs customers will have access to services to assist them on the
learner driver journey, including learner's permit applications, theory and
hazard perception tests and of course, practical driving assessments.
"DoT has also made
weekend PDAs available at Midland, Mirrabooka, Rockingham and Kelmscott DVS
centres in December and January to cater for increase in booking demands over
the busy summer period."
Comments attributed to Joondalup MLA Emily
Hamilton:
"The opening of a new
dedicated driver assessment centre in Joondalup is something I campaigned
strongly on, and I am thrilled that today we are announcing its opening.
"The new centre
highlights the commitment of the Cook Government to help ease the pressure on
PDA bookings and represents a win for the Joondalup community."
