In a bid to curb carnage and diversion of goods on the highways, the Federal Government in collaboration with Heavy Duty and Haulage Transport Association of Nigeria, has started data capturing of heavy duty trucks on Nigerian roads.
The National Secretary of the association, Mr. Elvis Okolie, who disclosed this today, in Enugu, during a workshop organised for heavy duty drivers in the state said that the workshop was aimed at educating the drivers on the security initiatives of the association aimed at curbing economic sabotage and avoidable loss of lives on the roads.
He said that officials of the association had been at the receiving end of the unprofessional conducts of some drivers necessitating the partnership with the federal government to checking the menace.
The secretary mentioned some of the unprofessional conducts to include harassment of officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), diversion and theft of goods and abandonment of broken down vehicles on the highway.
Mr. Okoli noted that statistics show that most of the culprits drive under the influence of alcohol and other narcotics and this will no longer be tolerated.
He added that the association had inaugurated a task force charged with the responsibility of implementing the new measures aimed at bringing sanity among their members.
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