Deconfinement does not happen in a clear manner in all sectors of activity. For driving schools, to say the least: what a tragedy! Let’s go back to the chronology. Friday May 8, they are authorized to reopen Monday May 11. On May 11, in the middle of the day, they learned that they could not reopen until two days later. The next day, the reopening is postponed “until further notice”. Then finally, after a meeting on Tuesday evening, the final decision fell: the driving schools can resume their activity – under strict sanitary conditions – from Wednesday, May 13, 2020, announces the CNPA, the National Automobile Professions Council.
“I am furious”
Matthieu Dejaune runs a driving school in Longvic, near Dijon, with six employees. The imbroglio of this beginning of the week remains across his throat. “I had everything organized to resume Monday May 11 at 2 p.m., he says. I resumed Monday at 2 p.m. and at 2:09 p.m. we received a message ordering us to stop the activity. The problem is that we communicate on a reopening, and that after nine minutes of opening we are told stop, it is guignolesque “.
I opened from 2 p.m. to 2:09 p.m. – Matthieu Dejaune, manager of a driving school in Longvic
Finally relieved, he will resume his activity as soon as possible, time to reorganize its schedules. According to him, his appointment book is already full for the coming month.
“We can understand that there are hiccups”
Also relieved, Thierry Donzel, the president of the CNPA 21 (National Council of the Automobile Professions), himself the director of a driving school in Nuits-Saint-Georges, and who represents a hundred driving schools in Golden Coast. According to him, the difficulty of having a clear, clear and precise decision comes from a disagreement between the various ministries. “We couldn’t be put in the same box as bars and restaurants, nor in the same box as hairdressers and shoe stores”, he argues.
Not everything can be perfect – Thierry Donzel, president of the CNPA 21
For him, if there is no turnaround, all’s well That ends well : “If there was a upheaval, it is done fairly quickly. I tell myself that it ends well, we will resume, some are less fortunate than us, like the restaurateurs or the people of the show who are still on the carpet”.
Barrier gestures during driving lessons
After the hill start or the niche, we will have to master a new exercise for the students who will come to take lessons: the barrier gesture. A whole protocol will be implemented in cars. The vehicle will be disinfected between each student, instructor and student must have a mask and wash their hands with hydro-alcoholic gel (or wear gloves). Depending on the driving schools, some teachers may even have protective visors.
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