As soon as they take the selectivity exam, many young people sign up for the driving school with the aim of obtaining their driving license during the summer months. For years, there has been a significant waiting list due to the current Traffic examiner templates. Levante and Andalusia are the areas most affected by the DGT staff deficit, but Galicia is no stranger to the lack of professionals due to retirement. This reduction in the workforce led the department headed by Pere Navarro to send itinerant examiners to the Galician community last year to attend to the thousands of students waiting for a license to get behind the wheel.
Since yesterday, the DGT has 60 new interim examiners throughout Spain, two of them in Galicia —one in A Coruña and another in Pontevedra. A third of them are already exercising their duties since May 9, having previously completed the mandatory qualification course. To this figure are added the 47 career officials who joined last April. “These additions are going to mean that the examiner staff has a greater capacity to face the high demand of the summer season”, they highlight from the DGT.
The delegate in Galicia of the Association of Traffic Examiners (Asextra), Vanesa Fernández, yesterday described the measure as “successful”, although it is temporary, since it is temporary, and is limited to a specific period due to the high demand in the summer months. “Ideally, the permanent places will be taken, since in A Coruña and Pontevedra they are necessary due to retirement and also in Santiago, because there is a lot of demand for young people who study there,” Fernández highlights. To this reinforcement in the community, she points out, two more places would be necessary in A Coruña, another two in Pontevedra and one in Santiago to “return to normality”.
Tráfico points out that the arrival of these new workers occurs at a time of the year with high demand due to the holidays that many students take advantage of to take the course to obtain a driver’s license. DGT sources say that this increase in staff will increase the ability to examine and, consequently, provide a better service to citizens.
Of the total number of new examiners, Huelva and Castellón will receive the highest number (8 each), followed by Madrid and Barcelona (four) and two in Tarragona, Girona, Granada, Ciudad Real, Valladolid and Zaragoza. Also one in A Coruña, Pontevedra, Santander, Vitoria, San Sebastián, Logroño, Pamplona, Lleida, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Mahón, Valencia, Cartagena, Murcia, Málaga, Almería, Córdoba, Cádiz, Seville, Melilla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Puerto del Rosario, Cáceres, Badajoz, Segovia, León, Palencia, Ávila, Albacete, Toledo and Cuenca.
In 2021, Tráfico carried out 2,596,933 exams for obtaining driving licenses throughout the country, the highest number since 2010. Of the total number of tests carried out: 1,071,822 were theoretical exams, 300,664 were skill exams and 1,224,447 practical ones. .
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