The anger of driving school managers. The collective with the evocative name “driving license in danger” is stepping up to denounce a lack of inspectors, exam places, and the consequences on students and businesses.
Getting your Motorcycle license in Reunion has become a real obstacle course, the reason: more and more students facing an insufficient number of inspectors. As a result, the scarcity of slots causes school attendance to fall.
Maxime had to wait a month to get an exam date, and he will still have to wait to take the test “It adds additional costs to us because I had already finished my hours, and a waiting period too. It’s complicated.”
Jonathan, although well advanced in his journey, risks not being able to take his driving test until next year “The deadlines are too long, so we no longer ride motorcycles and then we have a huge delay between the set and driving. It’s annoying.”
Demotivation factor for candidates, sharp drop in turnover for establishments “For 2 years we have been doing 2x fewer licenses, therefore 2x less turnover, our costs continue to increase: the price of motorcycles, insurance, parts, etc., everything is increasing. By continuing like this, It’s quite simple, there will be no more motorcycle schools and driving schools.”
For the president of the collective, the “rdvpermis” platform, set up 4 years ago, does not keep its promises of fairness “We are encountering more difficulties than before, now, what are we doing to recommend? Going back, I don't think so because the population has increased, and the inspectors have remained more or less the same number, what we possibly recommend is, to have additional places, to have additional inspectors.”
Faced with an impasse, the motorcycle schools are sending a call for help to the Prefecture by requesting an interview this Thursday morning, to quickly find solutions to the current crisis.
