🏆 Irish National Professional Driver Championship (NPDC) 2025
🇮🇪 Proudly Supporting Ireland’s Professional Drivers
📅 Date: Saturday, 27th & Sunday, 28th September 2025
📍 Venue: County Kildare (exact location to be confirmed)
🚛🚌🚐 What is the NPDC?
The Irish National Professional Driver Championship (NPDC) is Ireland’s premier competition for professional drivers — bringing together van drivers, coach & bus drivers, and HGV drivers from across the country to compete, network, and showcase their skills.
Whether you drive a van for deliveries, operate a coach or bus on rural routes, or manage a 44-ton artic — this championship is for you.
🥇 Why Take Part?
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Show off your skills in vehicle control, reversing, obstacle navigation, and eco-driving
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Win prizes and gain recognition as Ireland’s top driver
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Meet other professionals and celebrate our vital industry
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Qualify for international competitions such as the UICR Professional Driver World Championship 2026 in Germany
📢 Who Can Enter?
If you’re a licensed professional driver in Ireland and currently operating one of the following vehicle types, you’re eligible to take part in NPDC 2025 — and you’re very welcome.
🚗 Vehicle Categories
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Category A: Solo truck > 7.5t 🔹 Driving Licence: C
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Category B: Bus / Coach 🔹 Driving Licence: D
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Category C: Tractor-trailer (Semitrailer) 🔹 Driving Licence: CE
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Category D: Drawbar trailer 🔹 Driving Licence: CE
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Category E: Young Driver (up to 21 years), Solo truck < 7.5t 🔹 Driving Licence: C1
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Category F: Delivery vehicle < 3.5t 🔹 Driving Licence: B
Drivers from all sectors — haulage, coach & bus, local delivery, municipal services — are encouraged to join us for a great weekend of competition, learning, and community.
🔗 Register Your Interest
If you’d like to receive more information and be first to know when registration opens, please fill in the short form below. No commitment — just let us know you’re interested!
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📌 Venue
The NPDC 2025 will be held in County Kildare. Final venue details and directions will be confirmed shortly.
🧰 What’s Involved?
Competitions will include:
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Vehicle manoeuvring and obstacle tests
- 1. Position a pendulum hanging from the front bumper on a target
- 2. Position four mats in the correct alignment to match with the front and rear wheels of the vehicle
- 3. Move past a bicyle, keeping outside the 1.5meter limit but as close as possible to this target
- 4. Reverse to a barrier and keep within 30cm of the target
- 5. Drive forward to a barrier and keep within 30cm of the target
- 6. Estimate the height of a bridge
- 7. Estimate the width of a passage
- 8. Park vehicle beside fuel pump with fuel cap aligned with pump
- 9. Parallel parking manoeuvre into a coned area
- 10. Position vehicle in exact centre of a parking bay
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Driver knowledge quiz
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Walkaround check challenge
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Safety and compliance tasks
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Team and individual categories
All tests are adapted for your vehicle category — van, bus/coach, or truck.
What else will be at the event?
Beyond the competition, visitors can enjoy a range of activities and insights. The RSA Shuttle will be onsite with cutting-edge simulators offering an immersive look at the risks of fatigue. A series of expert presentations will cover key topics for professional drivers and road transport stakeholders, including the Driver Wellbeing Pledge, an EU-wide initiative supporting driver health, and the EPDA Professional Driver Register.
With Naas Racecourse providing excellent restaurant, café, and parking facilities, spectators are warmly invited to experience the excitement first-hand – and even test their own skills in certain challenges.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do I need to bring my own vehicle?
A: No — all competitors will drive the competition vehicles provided.
This ensures the competition is fair and equal for everyone, regardless of what they normally drive.
👕 Bring Your Pride – Represent Your Company or County
Participants are encouraged to wear company or county gear — show your pride in where you work or where you’re from!
🧭 Organised by:
The European Professional Drivers Association (EPDA)
In cooperation with the UICR – Union Internationale des Chauffeurs Routiers
💬 Questions?
For enquiries or sponsorship opportunities, contact us at:
📧 info@epda.ie
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