|
Institute of Road Transport Engineers
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Technical |
||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||
|
South African Road Transport Management System (RTMS) and Regional Self Regulation Update South African RTMS At the time of this report, over 540 vehicles had been accredited. The Minister of Transport has signed an undertaking with the President; to reduce the road fatalities from 13000 per annum to 6500, by 2015. The Deputy Minister had met with CBRTA and expressed the government’s increased support for RTMS. The official website was
www.rtms-sa.org and it had recently been updated Motorvia, with 277 vehicles, was the first car carrier to be accredited. These vehicles were in addition to the 540 already accredited. The overloading at sugar mills had been reduced from 20% to 4%, in just over three years. In Mpumalanga, where RTMS was not being encouraged, overloading was over 20% and increasing. There was discussion around the security of the system. Ie, the system should be safe against a transporter, consignor or consignee putting an RTMS placard on its vehicle or office, when it was not accredited to the system. Further discussion was to be held with the Department of Transport (DoT). There was need for financial sustainability of the proposed National Steering Committee secretariat. A draft of the Articles of Association for the RTMS National Steering Committee, had been circulated for comment. They were based on the Articles of the Road
Freight Association. This was agreed as a result of the bad
experience with the previous Committee member who had been
responsible for doing the registration and banking. The RTMS AGM was scheduled for October 2011. Regional The self regulation project planned for the
Trans Kalahari Corridor had not got off the ground. Trade Mark Southern Africa (TMSA) and Trade Mark East Africa (TMEA) were implementing projects on behalf of the COMESA/EAC/SADC Tripartite. The projects were done previously by the individual RECs. As self regulation was an item in the Tripartite Action Plan and TMSA was focusing on the North-South Corridor, it was decided to implement a pilot self regulation project on that corridor. Click HERE to download the pilot project proposal. FESARTA was to play a major role in this pilot and this fitted with FESARTA’s brief from the South African National Steering Committee; to extend the RTMS along the corridors into Africa. CSIR was requested to produce a project proposal and a draft accompanies this document. SADC was to finalize the proposal and source
funding through TMSA. The SA Cross-Border Road Transport Agency (CBRTA) was also to be included in the project. FESARTA was involved in an EAC project to harmonize load limits and overloading control in East Africa. As an outcome of the project, the five East African Partner States recommended that self regulation be introduced into East Africa. EAC was to work with the Partner States to achieve this and FESARTA would be involved in the process. Barney Curtis.. |
Supporting transport
IRTE members come from a wide variety of transport-related roles including apprentices and technicians in the light, heavy and extra heavy vehicle and bus and coach sectors, workshop managers, fleet engineers, transport managers and company directors.
Members receive a free copy delivered right to their door! |
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
Hosted by shearar.net webhosting and dns solutions, site maintained by AVC |
||||||||||||||||||
