The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) on Wednesday urged tanker drivers to always put safety as their guidelines on the highways.
The organisations gave this advice at the ongoing Safety Training Programme organised by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) branch of NUPENG in Lagos.
Mr Segun Adetimiro, Deputy Controller of LASTMA, said that the training would ensure safety on our roads.
Adetimiro said that the programme would create a very good relationship between law enforcement agencies and tanker drivers because they were working for a common goal.
“We are all working for a common goal, which is to ensure we drive the economy and ensure that we have safer roads.
“We have been talking to these drivers to maintain their vehicles and ensure that they do the necessary checks on their trucks before they put them on the roads.
“This will reduce the in number of tankers that break down on the roads’’, he said.
The controller said that most of the faulty tankers were due to human errors and carelessness.
“We found out that most of the factors responsible for these things are human errors, but I believe with this programme, the tanker drivers will do the needful.
“On our own part, we will be friendlier with the drivers and assist them where we can.
“But, we will not tolerate break-down of vehicles on the roads because we have a zero tolerance to it in Lagos.’’
He urged the tanker drivers to make good use of what the learnt at the training.
Earlier, Mr Olusanjo Olumotanmi, an Assistant Corps Commander of FRSC, commended the leadership of PTD for organising the programme for their drivers.
According to Olumotanmi, a lot has been achieved since they started the training.
He advised tanker drivers to put safety as the most important thing whenever they were driving.
Also, Mr Adebayo Atanda, the Public Relations Officer of PTD, added that the training was due to a series of complaints received about attitudes of tanker drivers while driving.
The PTD believed that tanker drivers needed training and retraining, he said.
Atanda noted that for safety of tanker drivers and people, training of drivers was imperative.
More than 3,000 tanker drivers will benefit from the training nationwide.
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