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No compromise on the safety of road users

Gerakan supports the SPAD's enforcement

 
 

Press Statement by

Gerakan Head of Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life cum Kedah Derga State Assemblyman

Dr. Cheah Soon Hai

 
 

05 June 2012

 
 

In referring to the 300 truck owners and drivers who staged a demonstration to protest against the new regulations that further burdened the life pressure of truck drives' along Jalan Seri Negeri happened in Ayer Keroh a few days ago, Gerakan Head of Central Bureau on Environment, Safety and Quality of Life, Dr. Cheah Soon Hai expressed his support for the Land Public Transport Commission's (SPAD) enforcement.

 
 

Dr. Cheah Soon Hai, who is also Kedah Derga State Assemblyman, said the crux of the factor that has aggravated the truck drivers' burden does not lays on the new regulation itself. It is more on the employers who have failed to address the problems and life difficulties currently faced by the truck drivers.

 
 

"The truck owners and drivers should understand the purpose of this new regulation does not meant to embarrass the truck owners and drivers, but categorically it is to further ensure the security of the truck drivers and other road users," He added.

 
 

"Over the years, it is not difficult to notice that trucks involved in accident were usually overloaded or speeding. And these overloaded trucks were not just endangering the safety of the road user, but it also brought damages to the road facilities in accidents," he said.

 
 

Dr. Cheah stated that there should be no compromises on the safety of road users since the overload trucks are the major cause for road accident which involving personal injury or death including the truck drivers.

 
 

 

 

 

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罗里超重威胁道路使用者的安全

民政党支持陆路公交会"依法执勤"

 
 

民政党中央、环境安全与生活素质局主任

兼吉打州德卡区州议员

谢顺海医生

文告

 
 

2012年6月5日

针对罗里司机抗议陆路公共交通委员会"依法执勤"执法制度加重他们的生活压力一事，民政党中央、环境安全与生活素质局主任谢顺海医生表示支持陆路公共交通委员会"依法执勤"。

 
 

谢顺海也是吉打州德卡区州议员，他表示罗里司机的生活压力的增重不在于执法制度，而是业者无法应对罗里司机所面对的问题和生活困境上。

 
 

"业者和罗里司机应了解有关执法制度，不在于为难他们，而是为了确保道路使用者的安全，"他补充。

 
 

"以往至今，不难发现涉及车祸的罗里司机多因超重或超速。这些超重的罗里不但危威胁道路使用者的安全，而且破坏公路设施，"他表示。

 
 

谢顺海表示在道路使用者的安全课题上没有妥协的空间，因为罗里的超重问题是发生涉及包括罗里司机人命伤亡严重车祸的主因之一。