Remember The Ministry Of Transportation Is Acting Decisively On Overloaded Trucks In Palembang

Director General of Hubdat Budi Setiyadi (doc. Public Relations of the Ministry of Transportation)

PALEMBANG - The rise of Over Dimension Over Loading (ODOL) truck offenders is detrimental to many parties, especially transportation and roads. The Ministry of Transportation (Kemenhub) continues to take action to realize ODOL-free Indonesia by 2023.

In this regard, the Director General of Land Transportation (Dirjen Hubdat), Budi Setiyadi and the Governor of South Sumatra, Herman Deru, took firm action by normalizing or cutting 3 (three) units of trucks that violated ODOL rules in Palembang, South Sumatra.

"As a form of the government's seriousness in eradicating ODOL vehicles. We normalize 3 (three) units of ODOL violators, namely 2 tank cars and 1 cargo car or coal dump truck," said Director General Budi, in his statement, Saturday, February 27. .

He continued, the size of the vehicle was returned to the standard and it is hoped that in the future it can be used as an example for goods transportation entrepreneurs who have ODOL vehicles to immediately carry out normalization.

"These ODOL vehicles can harm many parties, not only causing casualties, but the state is also disadvantaged by the budget for repairing roads damaged by many ODOL vehicles," said Director General Budi.

As for the statement of the Minister of PUPR that every 1 year state losses due to ODOL reach 43 trillion Rupiah, so in this case the Director General Budi appealed to the parties involved, both business actors, goods owners and truck owners to jointly not violate predetermined rules.

Meanwhile, Director General Budi also emphasized that to achieve an ODOL-Free Indonesia by 2023, his party implemented several policies such as policies for handling ODOL and the implementation of the Motor Vehicle Weighing Implementation Unit (UPPKB).

Including P21 action against ODOL vehicles, vehicle normalization policies, law enforcement at UPPKB, and transfer of vehicle loads whose costs are charged to operators in order to create a deterrent effect for offenders.

"Simultaneously, South Sumatra Province has agreed to fully support law enforcement in the framework of Zero ODOL in the South Sumatra Province," said the Governor of South Sumatra Province, Herman Deru.

Herman added that if the entrepreneurs are still egotistical in committing ODOL violations, it is better if they use private roads so as not to damage national, provincial, and other roads that have been repaired.