The speed limiter, also called a governor, governs a set speed limit for a particular vehicle. For instance, according to the FRSC policy, different highways have different speed limits for different vehicles. For a personal car, the common one is 100km per hour. For a truck, it is 65km per hour. For a bus carrying passengers, it is 90km on the highway. Once the speed limiter has been fitted on a vehicle, it ensures that the driver does not go beyond the set speed limit. No matter how the driver accelerates, the vehicle will not be able to go beyond the set speed. Compliance is key in running a successful haulage business! Get your Speed Limiter fitted TODAY. Do not wait till the very last minute!
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This Month in Haulage Report Now
TANKER DRIVERS UNION PROTEST OVER LOADING SUSPENSION IN KADUNA: “…The members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers Union (PTD) are currently protesting the suspension of loading petroleum products at the Kaduna refinery by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG). The tanker drivers who blocked the entrance of the…”
TERROR ATTACK UPDATE: MOTORCYCLIST CRUSHED TRYING TO STOP KILLER TRUCK: “…A German journalist who witnessed the Nice attack said he saw a motorcyclist chase the killer truck and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels. “I stood on the balcony, right on the Promenade des Anglais, and saw how people celebrated there, and how suddenly a truck…”
EKITI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CRASH UPDATE: STUDENT’S LEG AMPUTATED: “…The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has declared a three-day state-wide prayer for the repose of the souls of the six students of the Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, who died on Monday night in an auto accident. The accident occurred around 7.30 pm in front of the main gate…”
NAVY VOWS TO END ACTIVITIES OF MILITANTS IN OGUN WATERWAYS: “…The Nigerian Navy has pledged to put an end to the activities of militants in and around the Ogun creeks and waterways. Rear Admiral Ferguson Bobai, Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Western Naval Command, gave the pledge on Tuesday in Abeokuta when he paid a courtesy visit…”
CUSTOMS IMPOUND 25 VEHICLES WITH SMUGGLED GOODS: “…The Oyo/Osun Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service said it impounded 25 vehicles smuggled into Nigeria with contraband goods through illegal routes. The controller of the command, Temitope Ogunkua, said a total of 342 bags of rice were loaded in 23 of the vehicles…”
18 ESCAPE DEATH AS BUS BURST INTO FLAMES IN DELTA STATE: “…No fewer than 18 passengers travelling from Agbor to Warri in Delta State with the state-owned inter-city bus, on Friday morning, narrowly escaped death as the vehicle went up in flames while in motion. It was gathered that pandemonium broke out midway into the journey at the Police…”
FRSC SUMMONS MANAGEMENT OF PEACE MASS TRANSIT OVER SPATE OF ACCIDENTS: “…The Federal Road Safety Corps on Wednesday summoned managers of Peace Mass Transit over the spate of road accidents involving the transport company. It said the firm’s vehicles recorded 11 road accidents between January and June this year, resulting in the death of 37 people…”
ABULE TAYLOR COMMUNITY SENDS SOS TO LASG ON DAMAGED ROADS: “…A community in Lagos State, Abule Taylor, in the Abule Egba area has expressed worry over continued devastation of its roads and drainage channels, among other infrastructural facilities as a result of an on-going construction of a flyover at the Abule Egba interjection of the…”
NSCDC DESTROYS 250 ILLEGAL REFINERIES, ARRESTS 118 VANDALS: “…The Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps said it has destroyed over 250 illegal refineries and made over 118 arrests in the last one year. This is contained in a statement signed by the Corps spokesperson, Emmanuel Okeh on Friday in Abuja. The statement quoted the Commandant General…”
MIXED FORTUNES FOR NIGERIAN VEHICLE DEALERS AS GLOBAL SALES FIGURES SOAR: “…Despite a global sales record indicating that first half of 2016 was the best ever for some organisations, Nigerian vehicle dealers have continued to groan under sales drop owning to government policies and economic turbulence. Infiniti said it finished the first half of 2016 with a…”
VIO, FRSC DISAGREE OVER RIGHT TO INSPECT SAFETY OF TYRES AND VEHICLE PAPERS: “…Dreaded ironically by non-law abiding and law abiding motorists, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) set out to ensure road users obey regulations that all boil down to safety of life and property. And when these two powerful agencies…”
LIVING NEAR ROAD COULD SEND YOU TO EARLY GRAVE, RESEARCHERS FIND: “…Being exposed to a constant barrage of traffic noise raises the risk of a heart attack, a new study has found. Those who live close to main roads or railway lines are most at risk, researchers discovered. The constant stream of sounds from cars, trains or planes puts the body…”
HOW TRUCK DRIVER DIVERTED, SOLD 33,000 LITRES OF DIESEL AND SET TRUCK ABLAZE: “…Osas who was said to have been recruited by a Lagos-based oil and gas firm (name withheld) was en-route Abuja to supply the said products. He, however, diverted the tanker to Okene in Kogi State, where he sold 400 litres of diesel to one of his clients for N230,000 cash, and the remaining…”
DEADLY TRUCK ATTACK IN FRANCE: DEATH TOLL RISES TO 84: “…An attack in Nice, France, where a man rammed a truck into a crowd of people left 84 dead and another 18 in a “critical condition”, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said Friday. An unidentified gunman barrelled the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through a crowd…”
PRODUCE HAULAGE: TAKING FOOD TO END USERS, MAKING MONEY: “…Farm produce would not get to end users if those in the chain of distribution fail to carry out their duties. Identifying this important role, some investors have ventured into inter and intra-state produce distribution on a small scale to make money and also to move the various food…”
VULCANIZERS’ BLUNDERS AND TYRE BLOWOUT: “…An experience I had with a vulcanizer paints a grim picture of the danger all motorist could be facing on daily basis. My vehicle has tyre pressure specification of 35 psi by the manufacturer. One day, I drove into a vulcanizers shop to pump up one of my tyres. After pumping, the vulcanizer got 35psi…”
KOGI VARSITY STUDENTS PROTEST, BLOCK ROADS OVER PROLONGED ASUU STRIKE: “…Students of the Kogi State University, Anyigba on Thursday grounded activities in the state capital, Lokoja by protesting against the long strike by members of Academic Staff Union of Universities. The students in their thousands occupied the popular Ganaja Junction…”
COMMUTERS GROAN OVER DEPLORABLE STATE OF BENIN-AUCHI-OKENNE ROAD: “…Commuters plying the ever-busy Benin-Auchi-Okenne Highway are groaning as a result of the pains they experience travelling through the road due to its dilapidated state, especially the four kilometres stretch after the Benin bypass, Obagie, Iruekpen, Ekpoma, Ewu, Jattu and…”
MOTORISTS PROTEST ALLEGED KILLING OF WOMAN BY DSS: “…Hundreds of commuters plying the Kaduna–Abuja Road were on Wednesday stranded as angry motorists blocked the road following the accidental killing of a traveller by men of the Department of State Security (DSS) along the expressway. It was learnt that the victim and her five…”
EIGHT ARRAIGNED FOR VANDALISING 48 BRT BUSES: “…The police have arraigned eight men, including four teenagers, before an Ebute-Meta Magistrate’s Court for allegedly vandalising 48 BRT buses during a protest. The cost of repairs of the vandalised vehicles was estimated at N139m. It would be recalled that about two weeks ago, a 22-year-old hawker…”
GAS PRICE HIKE: AGGRIEVED MOTORISTS THREATEN TO SHUTDOWN NIPCO’S STATIONS: “…Barely few weeks after NIPCO Plc reopened its seven Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Filling Stations in Benin, Edo State, after they were shutdown for several days by aggrieved motorists in protest against the hike in price of gas, the motorists are threatening fresh showdown with the company…”
SIX EKITI VARSITY STUDENTS DIE IN AUTO CRASH (GRAPHIC PICTURES): “…No fewer than six students of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, are feared dead in an auto crash involving a car and a commercial bus on Monday. The accident occurred around 7.30pm in front of the institution’s main gate. An eyewitness account said that six persons died from the impact…”
STREET TRADERS DARE AMBODE IN LAGOS: “…Many youths have continued with street trading and hawking in the traffic despite the stance of the state government to go tough on anyone doing so. A few days after Governor Akinwunmi Ambode stated his resolve to enforce an existing law prohibiting these activities, the bustle…”
IMPORT DUTIES SOAR OVER NEW FOREX RULES: “…Duties on shipping business at the ports have shot up astronomically in the wake of the new flexible foreign exchange rate policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Already, the Federal Government has launched the implementation of the new policy, which customs and…”
DEATH TOLL RISES IN ITALY TRAIN CRASH: “…At least 10 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, fire service officials said. Footage showed emergency services racing to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track near the town…”
ACCIDENT: PEACE MASS TRANSIT (PMT) OWNER VOWS TO SACK, PROSECUTE RECKLESS DRIVERS: “…Irked by two major accidents involving his buses which claimed 22 lives in Abia and Bayelsa states, Management of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) yesterday threatened to henceforth sack and prosecute any driver that consumes alcohol while driving on the…”
NURTW/RTEAN CLASH UPDATE: OYO POLICE TO ARRAIGN TRANSPORTERS OVER MAYHEM: “…The Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said it would arraign all the arrested transporters and other suspects who were involved in the Friday clash between two rival transport unions in Ibadan, the state capital. The peace in the city was tainted with violence on Friday, as members of the National…”
OIL MARKETERS AFRAID OF MOVING PRODUCTS BY RAIL – NRC MD: “…Without a good transport and logistics system, the commerce of a country cannot progress. Lagos-Calabar is targeting all the seaports. It will reach Calabar Port, Port Harcourt, Eleme deep seaport, the Warri port and Lagos ports would be captured in this route. This means that all the goods…”
YOUTHS WORST AFFECTED BY ROAD ACCIDENTS – FRSC: “…Seven in every 10 victims of road crashes are youths aged between 15 and 29, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has said. Mr Oludare Fadogba, its Commanding Officer in charge of Jos Zone, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Sunday that Road Traffic Crashes…”
ALLEGED BILLION NAIRA PURCHASE OF EXOTIC CARS AND TRUCKS BY KOGI GOVERNMENT IRKS OPPOSITION GROUP: “…The Audu-Faleke political organisation has slammed the Governor Yahaya Bello-led government in Kogi State over the mind-boggling vehicle purchase bazaar involving the administration. In a statement on behalf of the group by its Director, Media and Publicity, Duro Meseko, they noted…”
MOTORCYCLE RIDER, FEMALE PASSENGER KILLED IN OGUN CRASH: “…A commercial motorcyclist and his female passenger have been killed in a crash at the Sango end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. The accident involved a motorcycle, tricycle and a commercial bus. While the motorcyclist and the tricycle rider were heading for Sango, the commercial…”
PENGASSAN STRIKE: FUEL LOADING DROPS IN LAGOS, QUEUES BACK IN ABUJA AS NNPC CAUTIONS AGAINST PANIC BUYING: “…The ongoing strike by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) on Friday reduced loading activities at depots in Apapa, Lagos, raising the prospects of another round of supply challenges especially outside the…”
FRSC READS RIOT ACT TO MOTORISTS, CONDEMNS ASSAULT ON MARSHALS: “…Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Lagos Sector Command read the riot act to motorists and the general public to desist from taking laws into their hands. This is coming after the agency said its Road Marshals are being assaulted while carrying out their lawful duty in the…”
ROAD TRANSPORT WORKERS IN GUN BATTLE IN IBADAN: “…The fragile peace currently being enjoyed in Oyo state was yesterday disrupted as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and Road Transport Employers of Nigeria (RTEAN) battled themselves over the daily fees charged by the drivers’…”
NIGERIA ARMY REOPENS NIGERIA LINK ROAD WITH CENTRAL AND NORTH AFRICA: “…The road linking Nigeria to Central Africa, and by extension, the North Africa from the North-eastern region, the Maiduguri-Mafa-Dikwa-Gamboru/Ngala road, was yesterday reopened by the Nigerian Army. The road, a total of 138 kilometres, is not only strategic but of economic…”
RAMADAN DISASTER: THREE DIE, SEVERAL INJURED AS CONTAINER FALLS ON BUS IN LAGOS: “…Three persons were killed yesterday when a truck carrying a 40-feet container rammed into a commercial bus at Alakija, on Mile 2-Badagry Expressway, Lagos State around. 7.00a.m. Two others were injured when the truck moving inward Badagry and marked KRD526XP crashed…”
DPR RAISES THE ALARM OVER ADULTERATION OF DIESEL: “…The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has raised the alarm over adulteration of diesel in the market and vowed to clamp down on the perpetrators of the act. Speaking recently in Lagos when officials of the regulatory agency uncovered two illegal engine oil manufacturing factories…”
LAGBUS CRUSHES OKADA RIDER, PASSENGER TO DEATH: “…There was pandemonium in the Ilupeju area of Oshodi, Lagos State, after a bus crushed an okada rider and his passenger to death. Our correspondent learnt that the okada rider, Aniefuong Udoh, and a passenger, Suleiman Bakare, were both crushed by the LAGBUS…”
LAGOS VIO MISPLACES MOTORIST’S VEHICLE DOCUMENTS: “…A US-based language instructor, Henshaw Ita, has accused the officers of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Service at the Iba Zonal Office of unlawful seizure of his vehicle documents. He said the officers had been holding on to the original copies of his vehicle licence…”
COMPANY DRIVER DIES AFTER NDLEA TORTURE IN KOGI: “…A company driver, Moruf Haruna, has died after he was allegedly kicked in the stomach by an officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the Abaji area of Kogi State. PUNCH Metro learnt that 40-year-old Haruna, who worked for Vintage Transport and Logistics…”
TRAGEDY AVERTED AS TRAILER FALLS OFF AIRPORT ROAD BRIDGE, CRASHES INTO BUSES: “…Many people avoided death by the whiskers yesterday as a petrol tanker skidded off the bridge at Toyota bus-stop, Apapa-Oshodi Expressway on its way to Airport Road and fell on three commercial buses parked at the bus stop. The accident occurred around…”
POLICE RECOVER FRED AMATA’S SNATCHED VEHICLE: “The Lagos State Police Command has recovered the Lexus Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) belonging to popular actor, Fred Amata that was snatched from him by gunmen at Fadeyi area of Lagos two weeks ago. The vehicle, which was stolen on Saturday June 25, was recovered…”
FRSC DEPLOYS PERSONNEL, LOGISTICS TO ACCIDENT-PRONE ROUTES AGAINST EID-EL-FITRI: “…The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Sunday deployed 20,000 personnel including special marshals, as well as 500 patrol vehicles, 50 ambulances, 85 motor bikes, and 15 tow trucks to accident-prone routes as part of measures to ensure sanity on the nation’s highways during…”
USED CAR IMPORTATION: LOCAL AUTOMAKERS DEMAND FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF 70% TARIFF: “…The Federal Government and local automobile manufacturers have disagreed on the enforcement of a 70 per cent tariff on imported used vehicles. While the latter want the Federal government to commence the enforcement with immediate effect the second phase of the imposed…”
SUSPECTED CAR THIEVES ARRESTED AFTER RCCG SERVICE: “The police have arrested four suspected thieves for allegedly attempting to steal a Range Rover parked on the premises of the Redeemed Christian Church of God at the Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos State. It was said that the suspects…”
POLICE SMASH CAR-SNATCHING SYNDICATE, RECOVER EIGHT VEHICLES: “…The Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected members of a car-snatching syndicate. The RRS officials were said to have recovered eight stolen vehicles from the suspects, who reportedly stole vehicles in different…”
SIX DIE, 12 INJURED IN KOGI AUTO CRASH: “…No fewer than six passengers were killed and 12 others injured in a motor accident along Anyigba-Ajaokuta road on Saturday. An eye witness account told our correspondent that the accident, which involved a Toyota bus with registration number MKD 841 XA and A Golf car…”
ONE YEAR ON, PARENTS OF 11 STUDENTS CRUSHED TO DEATH BY TRUCK AWAIT JUSTICE: “…It was exactly one year yesterday that the lives of 11 students of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, were prematurely cut short in a fatal motor accident. They were crushed to death by a container-laden truck on Friday, June 26, 2015, which…”
FUEL IMPORTERS FACE FRESH HURDLES OVER $950M DEBT: “…Uncertainty is dogging in the supply of petroleum products for local consumption as some banks overseas have suspended short and medium-term credit lines to their Nigerian counterparts due to the inability of marketers to pay matured foreign currency…”