Dishub Kaltara Ramp Check And Urine Test Of Damri Driver Ahead Of The Year-End Holiday

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TANJUNG SELOR North Kalimantan (Kaltara) Department of Transportation (Dishub), together with a number of relevant agencies conducted Traffic and Road Transportation Inspection or Ramp Check. This inspection of the land transportation fleet is carried out ahead of the year-end holiday.

Acting (Plt) Head of the Kaltara Transportation Service (Dishub), Andi Nasuha revealed, in addition to checking Damri's fleet, his party conducted urine tests on Damri Bus drivers, as well as free health checks on the public.

"The goal is to realize the safety of traffic and road transportation ahead of Christmas 2023 and New Year's 2024," said Andi Nasuha, Monday, December 18.

In addition, continued Andi Nasuha, a number of strategies to realize traffic safety and road transportation were also carried out. One of them is intensive coordination with all stakeholders and carrying out cross-sectoral division of tasks and roles.

"Security inspections (ramp checks) will also be carried out on other public transportation fleets, both land, sea and air early and carried out thoroughly," he said.

A series of traffic safety and road transportation inspection activities have started from 15-18 December 2023.

"We hope that the implementation of this Nataru will take place safely, safely, smoothly and in an orderly manner. The results of the inspection of the Damri public transport bus have now been carried out to 7 Damri fleet units," he explained.

As a result, 7 Damri fleets were declared to have passed the test or roadworthy and the results of urine tests on Damri bus drivers were declared negative.

"No single indication of narcotics abuse is expected from all series of activities that have been carried out to improve safety in public transportation services," said Andi Nasuha.

The checks carried out include glass, lights, steering brakes, horns, and wheels. Including officers who in detail check the tires on the Damri Bus.

The same thing was said, the Bidokes Polda Kaltara IPDA dr. Agung Nurwahyudi Putra said the health check team examined the health of the drivers including blood tests, blood checks, blood pressure checks, cholesterol checks, gouts, eye checks, checking the fatigue level of the driver as well as checking drug tests by means of urine tests.

Meanwhile, the Manager of Human Resources Finance and the general Damri Kaltara Branch, Raharyudo Tri N explained, the results of the urine test of 8 Damri drivers were negative for drugs.

"All urine tests were negative," said Raharyudo.

His party did not add an extra fleet. This is because 11 fleets are believed to be able to serve the transportation needs of these cross-districts.

"There are 4 routes in the province of Kaltara, from Tanjung Selor to Malinau, KTT (Tana Tidung Regency) and Sebuku (Nunukan," he said.

In addition to Fleet between regencies in Kaltara, the Damri branch Samarinda office management unit, East Kalimantan, serves cross-provincial transportation (Kaltim-Kaltara) twice a week by preparing 4 fleets.

"Regarding the number of H-7 passengers, there has been no increase in passengers, possibly on December 22, 2023 or D-3," he concluded.