Curfews ‘could help reduce truck crashes’
A truck
driver's forum believes curfews could help reduce the number of crashes
involving heavy-duty vehicles.
There were more road emergencies in KZN on Monday.
Six vehicles - four of them trucks - were involved in a fiery crash in northern KZN.
In the afternoon, a trucker was killed when his vehicle jack-knifed on Hans Dettman Highway in Pinetown.
The province is still reeling from Friday's horrific truck and bakkie collision in Pongolo which claimed the lives of 20 people, including 18 children.
READ: WATCH : Another horrific truck crash on KZN road
Sifiso Nyathi, who is with the All Truck Driver Forum and Allied SA, says truckers are having to deal with a number of challenges, including driver fatigue and unroadworthy vehicles.
"This is a useless government, we can give them all the solutions but they won't listen to us but will listen to investors.
“If I was in government all the national roads will be closed between 10 and 5 o clock there will be no trucks on the road. The drivers will get time to rest, there will be no fatigue."
He says some drivers are forced to commit to 12-hour driving shifts.
"We check the truck, we check the drivers. Right now, we check the drivers on the N3, we look at their documents and see what time they finish, and we check the time and date.
“We tell them to go sleep at a truck stop but there is no way we are told, they have to go to Joburg, it's very important."
