UNecking that makes a road trip, it is something that can happen to any boss, whatever the sector of activity concerned. But when it turns out that the said company aims to learn conduct and presentation to the driving license exam, its compulsory liquidation generates unsuspected chain collisions. The school case arises in the Grand Dax, since the decision of the Commercial Court rendered on Wednesday March 5, 2025 against Adour allowed, a brand installed for twelve years in the Sablar district and in Saint-Paul-lès-Dax, near the Haroun-Tazieff high school.
“After carrying out four lessons on simulator and settled in advance the minimum twenty hours required to pass the license, I suddenly received an email informing me that the driving school had been liquidated,” explains one of the students, the first driving lesson of which took place on Thursday, March 10.
“To continue my training, I need the 860 euros already paid, without knowing when or if I will recover them,” she worries. On the door of the closed establishment, a poster advises registered students to contact an insurance organization, Groupama, as well as the agent responsible for liquidating the claims of this company, whose receivership requested ago seven years failed.
Are due
A month later, Me Philippine Abbadie has still not deigned to respond to our requests, written and repeated by phone with the standard of her study. Beyond constraining future drivers to new expenses, waiting for this judicial administrator to reimburse them the sums due, the situation also forced them to set off in search of a driving school capable of driving them until the permit examination.
“It is particularly frustrating for those who finished their training”
Apart from the files already planned, with students entrusted to the driving school contact, the rest of the learners thus approached one of the “six training centers still active in the agglomeration,” explains Éric Lassalle, leader of the Benquet driving school. This is particularly frustrating for those who finished their training, knowing that it takes about three months to do it and that we can only offer them a distant date to present them on the exam. »»
“No later than yesterday, I still have a former student of Adour allowed who asked me if we could take it,” says Valérie Ibadioune. The manager of the Gallieni driving school was forced to answer him in the negative. “We are already lacking in the examination for our own students. We cannot afford to take more. We will not have an extra place for him, now that everything is computerized. »»
Time limit
To the chagrin of these managers of driving schools in the Grand Dax, registrations for the driving license examination is now made on an uppermis, a dedicated internet platform. With “officially five inspectors in the Landes” to validate the obtaining of the driving license, the deadline remains “reasonable compared to other departments”, notes Éric Lassalle.
The boss of the Benquet driving school underlines the specific case posed by the future bikers of the agglomeration. “Since the closure of Adour allowed, we have only been two driving schools to provide training in the A2 license. I have to orient them towards colleagues in Saint-Vincent-de-Tyrosse, Soustons, Mont-de-Marsan or Bayonne. Knowing in addition that one can only have three or four places per month for the exam. »»
For young drivers, it is however not to miss your niche. Woe to the one who would not succeed in the test from his first presentation: “In the event of failure to the B license exam, we end up with deadlines that reach up to four months. When you need to drive, it’s a terrible wait. »»
