By Tinaani Nyabereka
MIDLANDS – Gweru City Council is set to go after heavy vehicles whose drivers they are accusing of violating road regulations and damaging roads in Gweru.
The move was announced by Gweru Mayor, Cllr Martin Chivhoko during a full council meeting that was held at the townhouse recently.
He said for long, truck drivers have been violating traffic regulations in the city with some cutting through the Central Business District (CBD) using the wrong routes.
“What are we going to do with the trucks that are violating the road? We see most truck drivers cut across the CBD but what bothers us is, we are our law enforcement agencies.
“We need to bring sanity to the city, trucks need to use authorized routes and move at the periphery of the city, we can’t have both heavy and light motor vehicles congesting the city. We have vehicles from Chinese companies who are using our roads.
“We see trucks carrying heavy loads of chrome, they are not supposed to congest, the suburbs so these companies must take part in the rehabilitation of most of the roads as trucks are heavily damaging the roads,” Chivhoko said.
Chivhoko added that the heavy trucks were flouting council by-laws by driving through residential suburbs where they are not allowed to.
“The heavy trucks are violating council by-laws by driving through residential areas. Heavy vehicles are not allowed in residential suburbs because the roads are not designed for their weight.
“They are destroying our roads causing potholes.
Council is going to clamp and fine such vehicles,” said.
