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THE DRIVING STANDARDS Agency (DSA) will close its Croydon HGV driving test centre next year, leaving only one test centre in London. From 10 November operators in London and the South-East will have to travel to Enfield, Guildford. Purfleet or Gillingham for HGV driving tests. The Croydon site will shut completely on 14 January.
Ray Dickson. MD of Croydonbased F Dickson Transport, says he is extremely disappointed with the decision. He now faces a threehour journey to the nearest test centre:"At a time when then 80,000 driver shortage the go ment should be doing all it c encourage people into the ii try — not creating more prot than already exist."
A spokeswoman for the says: "The agency has been t to identify an alternative si Croydon or the surrounding since April which could be us carry out large vehicle testi some point in the near future.
"Unfortunately all sites id tied as possibilities in our sem have so far have come to notb