SUBSTANDARD TRUCKS AND TANKERS TO BE BARRED FROM LOADING AT DEPOTS AS FROM SEPT 1, 2015 —- FRSC: “…many petroleum tankers in Nigeria lack safety valves and as a result are prone to spill petroleum products whenever the tankers fall or overturn, resulting in loss of lives and property…about 90 per cent of the petroleum tankers and trucks on the road are over-aged and needed to be replaced…”
PATRONAGE FOR PAN NIGERIA RECEIVES A BOOST AS KANO PROMISES SUPPORT: “…More state governments’ patronage may be coming the way of Pan Nigeria Limited as the Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has promised to assist the Kaduna-based auto company …”
FRSC NOT IMPRESSED WITH FLEET OPERATORS’ RESPONSE TO SAFETY STANDARDISATION SCHEME: “…For instance, the corps said on Tuesday that only 15 of the 42 registered fleet operators in the Lagos Island Local Government Area of Lagos State passed the 2014/2015 RTSS test…”
ABC TRANSPORT EXPLORES NEW SPRINTER ROUTES: “…This service, it said, had been designed for passengers who would like to travel light, with little or no luggage, adding that the ABC Sprinter would run as a direct passenger service with daily departure schedules…”
STERLING BANK FINANCES MULTIMILLION NAIRA TRACTORS: “…Sterling Bank Plc says it has financed the purchase of tractors for members of the Tractors Owners and Hiring Facilities Association of Nigeria to the tune …”
CFAO ROLLS OUT NEW-GENERATION MITSUBISHI L200 PICKUP: “…The all-new L200 also delivers quietness and ride comfort on a par with a passenger car, thanks to a new engine, optimisation of the suspension, the strategic placement of sound insulation, absorption and vibration …”
GIRL’S LEGS CRUSHED BY TIPPER IN A MOST HORRIFIC ACCIDENT: “…Eye-witness account have it that the tipper while trying to evade a head-on collision with a Bank’s bullion van and police escort vehicle driving recklessly against traffic, lost control and ran into the lady that was standing by the side of the road…”
CEMENT-CARRYING TRUCK CRASHES INTO SHOPS AT MUSHIN (PICTURES): “…Many traders cheated death by the whiskers this afternoon in what could have been another major disaster involving a truck. A 30ton flat-bed trailer fully loaded with bags of cement was reported to have lost control and rammed into several shops …”
BLOODY TRUCK ACCIDENT KILLS MAN, WIFE AND FIRST SON IN AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE (PICTURES): “…According to eyewitnesses, the couple stopped to refill their car at a filling station at Agu Awka around 2pm, when a trailer on top speed rammed into their car on their way out of the fuel station…”
JOB DESCRIPTION OF FLEET 3RD PARTY CLAIMS HANDLER: “…The third party claims officer is that officer charged with the responsibility of ensuring that a healthy financial, and by extension operational, relationship exist between the company and its pool of third party freight partners…”
JOB DESCRIPTION OF FLEET DISPATCHERS: “…The dispatcher’s job is to schedule drivers to pick-up or deliver loads to customers or vendors. A driver needs a point of contact that he or she can rely on. They need someone who is invested in keeping the driver legal while on the road and at the same time keeping …”
DPR SAYS MARKETERS ARE CAUSING ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY: “…These groups are hoarding to create artificial scarcity and then selling petrol at N95 per litre, instead of the approved ex-depot price of N77.66, despite getting supplies from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and also enjoying Petroleum Support Fund (PSF)…”
FG GRANTS KADUNA CONTAINER DEPOT PORT STATUS: “…Federal Government has declared Kaduna Inland Container Depot a port of origin and final destination to extend shipping services to hinterlands and landlocked areas to decongest the ports…”
DANGOTE CALLS ON FGN TO CONSTRUCT ROADS WITH CEMENT: “…Concrete roads may be about 15 to 20 percent more expensive than asphalt road but in the long run, in terms of durability, it is better because the maintenance cost is near zero…”
ROADS CONSTRUCTION: FGN SET TO ADOPT ALTERNATIVE FUNDING MEASURE: “…President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he would adopt alternative fiscal measures of funding the construction of roads aside the country’s budget…”
“FOR LAGOS TO ACCOMMODATE 57 TANK FARMS AND 1000 TRUCKS, TANK FARM OWNERS MUST COME TO THE ROUNDTABLE”— Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode: “…So for us to be able to accommodate you, you must come to the roundtable. You cannot fold your arms and say that it does not concern you. I am giving up the security and safety of Lagosians by accommodating 57 tank farms and giving up the safety and peace of Lagosians by allowing over 1000 trucks to enter Lagos every day…”
FRSC TO IMPOUND AND PROSECUTE OWNERS AND DRIVERS OF POORLY LATCHED AND FALLING TRUCKS: “…We will make sure that we prosecute drivers apprehended in Lagos and Ogun for failure to secure their containers properly because we don’t want to continue to see falling containers on the roads, either killing people or not…”
RECKLESS DRIVING ON THE HIGHWAY (PICTURES): “…The truck drivers were reported to have fenced off the highway from other road users driving dangerously side-by-side for a considerable length of time with several motorists hooting and exhibiting frustration while it lasted. …”
HORROR AS TRUCK CRUSHES OKADA RIDER TO DEATH: “…According to eyewitnesses, the victim, simply identified as Kehinde, was said to have met his untimely death after being put under pressure by a taxi driver that was trying to escape being arrested by some Vehicle Inspection Officers….”
EMIRATES, HAK AIR COLLIDE AT LAGOS AIRPORT: “…Disaster was averted on Monday night at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos as passengers aboard Emirates flight to Dubai escaped a ground crash after their aircraft collided with…”