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02 November 2018

Ventersdorp Weighbridge to ensure compliance of road laws and improve road safety

Overloading truck operators and traffic violators travelling along the N14 between Ventersdorp and Kgrugersdorp will feel the pinch of the law following the official opening of the Ventersdorp Weighbridge.

The weighbridge is one of the deterrents that the Department of Community Safety and Transport Management has put in place to ensure constant monitoring and pick up vehicles that are overloaded and unroadworthy. This is part of the Department’s responsibility to ensure that truck owners and operators that do business on roads, comply with the prescribed laws and legislation.

Opening the weighbridge, North West Premier, Professor Job Tebogo Mokgoro believes the newly built Ventersdorp Weighbridge located on the N14 road between Krugersdorp and Ventersdorp will assist in ensuring road laws compliance by heavy motor vehicle companies and drivers.
Premier Mokgoro said this after officially opening the weighbridge as part of 100 days in office programme of handing over completed infrastructure projects to the beneficiaries across the province.

“Our province is the gateway to different provinces including SADC countries such as Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. As a result a high number of heavy motor vehicles transverse our province carrying tons and tons of cargo. Through this weighbridge we’ll ensure compliance and safe the quality of our roads and improve road safety,” said Premier Mokgoro.

Premier Mokgoro was accompanied by the Departmental MEC Dr Mpho Motlhabane to open the Weighbridge which was built at a cost of R11 million. Premier Mokgoro said those who break the laws must be prosecuted.

“We are working on improving the state of our roads and overloaded trucks are robbing us of good quality roads. We need to harshly deal with the culprits” concluded Professor Mokgoro.

Through this weighbridge which is equipped with a multi-deck scale to weigh heavy motor vehicles, trucks would be intercepted before entering or leaving the Province.

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