The Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC) says articulated vehicles without minimum safety standards would be barred from operating in the nation’s ports and tank farms as from September 1.
Boboye Oyeyemi, the corps marshal, made this known while flagging off “Operation Safe-to-road” on Lagos-ibadan Expressway on Monday.
Oyeyemi, represented by the assistant corps marshal, Victor Nwaokolo, in charge of command administration and strategy, FRSC, headquarters, said that the corps was passionate about
maintaining sanity on major highways.
The corps marshal said that the “Operation SafeTo-load” was in line with the Federal Government’s concerns for haulage operations in the country.
He said that the Federal Government had set up inter-ministerial committee on haulage operations headed by Secretary to the government of the federation with all other stakeholders as members.
Oyeyemi said that implementation of the committee’s mandate was ongoing and would be concluded with action plan.
According to him, very soon, there will be policy statement from the Federal Government on the haulage operations.
“The haulage operation in Nigeria has been taken care of, and this is just a start of it. “This will go on simultaneously with sensitisation slated to hold between July and August.
“From September 1, something will happen, something very good. Very soon, we will bring sanity to haulage operation in Nigeria.
“What is this all about? It is that all these, whether wet or dry cargo vehicles, keep to the minimum safety standard. If they don’t have it, they will not be on the road.
“There will be no operation (for articulated vehicles) in the Nigerian Port Authority- the port, no operation in the tank farms except the vehicles meet these minimum safety standards,” FRSC chief said.
According to him, articulated vehicles will be left with no other options than to meet the minimum safety standards, if they want to continue in business.
He said that FRSC would be very firm and strict in enforcing minimum safety standard for trucks and trailers on the corridor to end carnages on the highways.
