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March 21, 2019
The Federal Government incollaboration with Heavy Duty and Haulage Transport Association of Nigeria hasstarted data capturing of heavy duty trucks on Nigerian roads.
The National Secretary of theassociation, Elvis Okolie said this on Thursday in Enugu during a workshoporganised for heavy duty drivers in the state.
Okolie said that the aim of theexercise was to curb carnage and diversion of goods on the highway. He saidthat the workshop was aimed at educating the drivers on the securityinitiatives of the association aimed at curbing economic sabotage and avoidableloss of lives on the roads.
He said that officials of theassociation had been at the receiving of the unprofessional conducts of somedrivers necessitating the partnership with the federal government to checkingthe menace.
The Secretary mentioned some of theunprofessional conducts to include harassment of officers of the Federal RoadSafety Corps, FRSC diversion and theft of goods and abandonment of broken downvehicles on the highway.