TMV with Bavaria's Transport Minister Bernreiter: The minor expertise is as useless as a goiter

On Monday, TMV President Thomas Kroker and CEO Patrick Meinhardt met with the Bavarian State Minister for Housing, Construction and Transport, Christian Bernreiter (CSU), who currently also holds the chairmanship of the Conference of Transport Ministers. The topic was what the TMV now considers to be a prime example of failed administrative logic: the "Kleine Fachkunde".

Meinhardt and Kroker have not held back their opinion:

"After an incredible over a year of radio silence, we were informed as associations last year that a digital Basic Expertise was not possible for data protection reasons. This information was incomprehensible to us, as we were clear twelve months earlier that, just like at universities during the Corona period, this should be possible and only the technical implementation needed to be clarified," explains Kroker.

Then, during a meeting with then Federal Minister of Transport Volker Wissing, it was mutually determined that a Basic Expertise no longer made any sense at all, especially if it couldn't even be conducted digitally in the end.

"On this basis, it was clear to us: That was finally the end of the bureaucracy monster Basic Expertise," Kroker continued.

"From some backroom of some ministerial bureaucracy, it seems there is now something about the Small Expertise, and it is heard that this elaboration, whatever form it may take, is supposedly now lying somewhere in the Ministry of Transport for review. There has been no professional contact with us as TMV for a year now; once again, there is silence. It is all just a farce," said Patrick Meinhardt.

And Thomas Kroker also made it clear from the Munich and Bavarian perspective that they had been left hanging by politics for four years in his view.

"In the meantime, as medium-sized companies living up to their responsibilities, we have naturally taken over the training of our taxi drivers ourselves in Bavaria to ensure quality. Either the entrepreneurs themselves do this in rural areas or the headquarters do it in the cities. This is, after all, in our very own interests. And now, after having had to organize ourselves for years, there is suddenly supposed to be a paid examination, in which the most important topic is evidently outsourced: Customer orientation. A theoretical exam, which was developed at the drawing board, is as useless as a goiter and is needed by no one - not the entrepreneurs, not the drivers, not the associations, not the administration, and not the politics!"