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Police officers seen during a scholar transport safety.
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport says it’s using cutting edge technology to keep unroadworthy scholar transport off the road and improve the safety of learners.
It’s installing tracking devices in vehicles with government contracts for scholar transport.
The department says this will help monitor the movement of impounded vehicles due to safety issues.
The system can report if the vehicle is in use before it is cleared to return on the road.
MEC Siboniso Duma says, “We can’t have data that your vehicles have failed but are still seen on the road. That is why we have developed a new tracking system that ensures that the movement of that vehicle, if it has been impounded, if it has been taken for service, it can’t move until it has been certified by us. So, we are at the point where we are doing that.”
Scholar Transport | Focus on overloading, roadworthiness and speeding – Sakina Kamwendo reports:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6n1poEUX4c
