Outsourced testers start work in bid to slash backlog

PRIVATELY contracted driving testers began work yesterday hoping to knock more than 3,200 drivers off the test backlog over the next month.

The outsourced service, in addition to the public service, aims to cut back on the 140,000 drivers waiting to sit tests.

This week, a number of the private contracted testers under company SGS, will begin work at a centre in Fonthill, close to Liffey Valley in Dublin. By the end of the month, test centres with the newly hired staff will include Deansgrange, City West, the Ballymun area, as well as Naas in Kildare. They will be located at the same centres used for the National Car Test, also run by SGS.