Originally Posted by Pulaski

The further north and west you go from NYC, the easier it is likely to be to get a test date. I was told by a snooty women sitting at a desk outside the room where I had dozed through five hours of mandatory classroom training, that the "earliest possible date" was 10-12 weeks later. That appeared to be true for local tests, in White Plains, near where I was living, but my wife looked at test centers further and further away until she found a date the following week, in Herkimer. So that is where I did my test. …. My wife drove me to the test site, and I did the test in the SUV we had rented.