Serial Accidents On Cipularang Toll Road, Ministry Of Transportation Asked To Investigate Logistics Industry Ecosystem

Accident on the cipularang toll road (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Commission V of the Indonesian House of Representatives highlighted the successive accidents that occurred on the Cipularang toll road, West Java. The incident, which was allegedly triggered by a failed truck brake that sent the goods, was considered an indicator of the recklessness of the freight forwarding industry ecosystem.

Deputy Chairman of Commission V of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Syaiful Huda, said that traffic accidents due to trucks sending goods were repeated. The whole business of the garbage box truck in Tangerang has not yet been completed, he continued, now the truck is suspected to be a series of accidents that have triggered many victims, some even fatalities.

"We urge the Ministry of Transportation to conduct a thorough investigation regarding our logistics industry ecosystem," he said in an official statement, Tuesday, November 12.

Huda said the growth of the freight forwarding service industry in recent years deserves to be grateful. However, this growth should be accompanied by stricter supervision and law enforcement.

"Actually, the regulations already exist. It's just that the implementation process in the field is often problematic so that the process of supervising the feasibility of vehicles and vehicle crews becomes weak," he said.

Huda revealed that the Director General of Land Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation, for example, has regulated in detail the type of truck, the maximum limit for goods loaded with tours, the classification of roads that can be passed by trucks, to the provisions regarding truck tub models.

In addition, he continued, the Ministry of Transportation has also regulated provisions for periodic vehicle tests every six months to see the feasibility of freight transportation on the highway.

"However, this provision is often violated, triggering traffic accidents that cause a lot of material and life," he said.

Weak supervision of truck crews, said Huda, is also one of the triggers for the high number of accidents on the highway. Just because of the problem of reducing the cost of logistics fleet entrepreneurs often recruiting non-professional truck crews.

"They recruited truck crews as long as they didn't consider competence, adequacy of age, to professionalism just because they could be paid cheaply. On the other hand, the government seemed to close their eyes so that cases of underage drivers appeared, cases of shooting drivers, to truck crews who used drugs," he explained.

Therefore, Huda urged the Ministry of Transportation to take firm action against entrepreneurs of the freight forwarding service fleet who violate the provisions of the law. If necessary, the Ministry of Transportation can revoke the permits of truck entrepreneurs who do not want to do KIR tests, recruit vehicle crews as long as they violate vehicle tonnage.

"For truck crews who are proven incompetent, they should revoke their driving license. Although we also have to know whether they have been properly paid by the truck company that employs them," he concluded.