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The Irish Road Haulage Association has accused the Road Safety Authority of massaging the driver testing figures by moving testers from articulated truck, bus and truck testing to car testing in order to reduce wait times for car driving tests – whilst waiting times for commercial driving tests increase exponentially. According to hauliers, this has caused the waiting lists for driving tests for a car to fall by 10% between April and June 2025, but has led to a significant increase in the wait times for truck (42%) and articulated truck (40%) between April and June this year. It has also caused a backlog in the testing of bus drivers. Hauliers describe it as a crisis in the making for the commercial driving industry. For more on this, Alan Morrissey as joined by Sophie Howard, Quin native, Clare’s Youngest Female Haulier and Eugene Drennan, Former President of the Irish Road Hauliage Association, Ennis haulier.