Sinanan: Ministry to clamp down on heavy trucks

Shastri Boodan

The Ministry of Works and Transport will crack down on heavy trucks using unauthorized roads. 

This announcement was made by Works and Transport Minister Senator Rohan Sinanan when he spoke with Guardian Media on Saturday night following a cultural show for delegates of a three-day Hindi Conference at the NCIC Nagar, Chaguanas.

Sinanan said that even though there are many roads that limit the weight of some vehicles, drivers simply ignore the signs and proceed on these roadways causing damage to the infrastructure.

Sinanan said, “ There is an existing law, any existing heavy vehicle has to be licensed and you have to go to the transport board and they give you specific routes to travel on, unfortunately, a lot of these restricted vehicles try to take short cuts and so on and they go on roads that are not designed. It’s a matter of enforcement, the law exists and it’s a matter of enforcement which we will be stepping up upon.” 

Sinanan said his ministry is putting systems in place to have weight-restricted routes policed by traffic wardens and law enforcement authorities.

“It’s unfair that these heavy trucks will go in and damage the roads and in some cases, the same truck owners are the ones we have to pay to rebuild the road,” he said.

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