Question 16422 — road safety

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Mrs Caroline Abadie questions the Minister of the Interior about lowering the legal age for a category D driving license. During meetings with those involved in passenger transport by road, the difficulties of recruiting new drivers were discussed. Indeed, since the 2015 law which opened up passenger transport by coach to competition, this sector has presented a strong recruitment need. Moreover, this need will increase with the development of transport services by local authorities. Recruitment difficulties mainly have two origins: the cost of the category D1 or D driving license and the minimum age required to be able to take the exam. Today, a person wishing to be a coach driver must pay, at a minimum, 7,000 euros to take their driving test. However, in order To maximize the recruitment of drivers, coach companies prefer to finance this training. The second limit is legal, since it is linked to the minimum age required to take the driving test, which is 21 years for the D1 license and 25 years for the D license. This limit does not promote the accessibility of this profession among young people. Thus, they prefer to move towards the transport of goods, since the C1 license is accessible from 18 years old. She would therefore like to know to what extent it is possible to review the terms of access to the profession of coach operator, at a time when there is a desire to review travel as part of the energy transition. A first option would perhaps be to limit the use of the D license to 18-21 year olds to driving vehicles with fewer than 25 passengers, then at the age of 21, without an accident or fine, the driver would regain full use of the D license, as on the principle of supervised driving. She questions him about his intentions on this subject.

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