Protest Associations, Kemenhub Keep True Action Overload

Jakarta, Gatra.com – In order to reduce the damage done to roads and reduce the number of accidents, the government will attack all overloaded freight vehicles, which use roads tolls and non-toll roads.

"In a week we will lead socialization and sympathetic action to drivers who are caught carrying more goods and carrying more," Transport Minister Budi Karya Sumadi told reporters at the Ministry of Transport's office. , Jakarta, Tuesday after the launch of the vehicle control. overdimensi and overload (odol) goods that also badisted the Director General of Land Transport Kemenhub Budi Setiyadi, Korlantas, Constitutional Court and some badociations.

The Minister of Transport said that the ban on overloaded goods and size vehicles is not a new provision. However, he acknowledged, up to now, the provisions are still a lot of leniency.

But at this time, Budi said, the government will act firmly against drivers and property owners who continue to run kendaraannnya exceeded

He said, because of the number of the country suffered a loss of Rp. 43 trillion a year for the costs of repairing damaged roads. Likewise, judging by the speed, the Minister of Transport, Budi, said that due to overloaded cargoes of goods and dimensions, the speed of the vehicle can only reach 40 km / h, which makes it would achieve 60 km / h. "Due to the number of slow-moving trucks, the distance between Jakarta-Bandung and vice-versa can reach four to five hours, as about 90% of pbading trucks are overcapacity and size," he said. Antara, Tuesday (3/7)

The Minister of Transport expects all parties, including badociations that use trucks to transport goods, to be required to comply and be the enforcement of the regulation

but without the intention to impede commercial activities, I will take firm action against those who remain stubborn, "the director general of land transport of the Ministry of Transport, Budi Setiyadi, said that to monitor the presence of freight transport on non-toll roads, Kemenhub will again operate weighing stations on national roads by the end of 2019. It is expected to reach 92 weighing stations.

"This decisive step is also the response of the Ministry of Public Works and Popular Housing, which is still complaining about roads damaged by trucks," he said. to prepare special portable scales for trucks before the trucks enter the toll road, so that we can know the tonnage of goods transported

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