UNLICENSED service delivery vehicles have Jeffreys Bay residents’ axles spinning. They are fearing for the safety of fellow-motorists.
They now demand Kouga Municipality to put the brakes on these ‘unsafe’ vehicles, reducing the number of unlicensed – and unroadworthy – vehicles on the road.
Freddie van Rooyen, from the non-profit community organisation Masikhathalelaneni, says, “The municipality allows several service delivery vehicles on public roads without licence disks – including trucks delivering a critical daily service such as the emptying of sewer tanks.
“The majority of these vehicles’ licence discs expired in October 2018 and December 2018.
“Thus, the particular service delivery vehicles have not undergone a roadworthy test since 2017.”
Fuelling the concern, Van Rooyen informed the municipality about the expired licence discs in July this year – when he first became aware of the situation – but it was only in October that they approached the service provider to obtain temporary licence discs for some of the vehicles – more than a year after the expiry date.
According to Van Rooyen, some of the drivers do not have the required operators’ cards either
“The municipality is paying thousands of Rand to the specific service provider to use unlicensed vehicles.
“They are placing the safety of the driver and his co-drivers, as well as other motorists at risk,” he says.
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