Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Professional driving instructors are suffering an unexpected consequence of last year’s change to free re-sits for driving tests.  Since fees for re-sitting practical driving tests were scrapped in October, delays to licence booking times have grown as a result of a surge in demand.  There were 2000 booked no-shows last month alone through VTNZ.  President of the New Zealand Institute of Driving Educators Mark Revill-Johnson tells Mike Hosking that funding training gets better outcomes as people are well prepared when turning up for tests.  Instead, people are using the test as an opportunity for a free lesson, affecting business for professional instructors across the country.  LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.