Logistics Transportation Entrepreneurs: Traffic Accidents Cause Losses Of Up To IDR 200 Billion

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JAKARTA - Secretary General of the Indonesian Multimodal Transport Company Association (PPMTI) and President Director of PT Lookman Djaja Logistics Kyatmaja Lookman said that traffic accidents caused material and immaterial losses. For material losses the numbers are very large.

"Data from Korlantas, losses due to accidents in Indonesia reached Rp. 200 billion. Then there were more than 326 thousand cases of accidents. 7.6 percent of them were freight transportation, and this is a high composition," he said in the Synergy between the Government and Operators in Realizing Transportation Salvation, Tuesday, April 20.

Kyatmaja said that another loss experienced when a traffic accident occurs is the risk of casualties, both themselves and others. In addition, the vehicle used is also one of the disadvantages in this traffic accident.

"As for the transportation of goods, other losses can be in the form of piracy, embezzlement, lost speedometers, loss of axles," he said.

Furthermore, Kyatmaja explained that transportation costs in Indonesia are quite cheap. Currently, the wages paid to logistics truck drivers tend to be more competitive than in other countries such as Europe and Thailand, despite the high risk of accidents.

"With Europe, the salary can be three times. In Thailand it can be 2 times the transportation cost. So for us, the costs are cheap, but the logistics costs are still high," he said.

According to Kyatmaja, one of the things that causes accidents is because the sector is a shortage of drivers or a deficit of drivers. Kyatmaja said most drivers in freight transport used to be kenek.

"But now, even though the drivers work remotely, but many are single. So driver regeneration is lost," he said.

Meanwhile, he said, there was no competency test to become a driver of freight transport. They just need a test to get a driver's license A.

"Get a SIM A but less experience on the road," he said.

For your information, SIM A is used to drive public passenger cars and public goods with the amount of weight allowed not exceeding 3,500 kilograms.